sparky,
is it better to have a thinker or thinner mash? Mine was a little to the thick side. years ago someone told me it should be like oatmeal...where you'd just basically have the grains covered with the water without much extra. I was told that the mash thinkness has a lot to do with the...
I've brewed a few batches in a cutout 1/2 keg with mesh screen spigot and sparge with the helicopter and the weiss brews I've made and wheat beers have always come out very good.
This last batch I made 2 weeks ago was the first batch I made in years and I felt VERY out of practice. Usualy I...
in one of my last "hefe's", I actually used a few bananas during the mash, and two vanilla beans during the cool....
with the weihenstephan yeast, it came out great!
as a sidenote Rev, I see you got an American wheat kegged...
Question: What barley do you use with the wheat malt? I have found Klages to be the best, and almost always use a 60/40 wheat to barley ratio, and always had success adding 1 lb of wheat flakes. If my memory serves me right, the...
thanks Rev...
First post since signing on, and happy to see I got a quick reply...
I mean, I now the thing about Weihenstephan is the banana-clove characteristics, but I was thinking that with it being such a light brew, it might not be bad (as you state) with some of the yeast...
I have a harvested batch of Weihenstephan yeast used predominantly in Weissbiers in the fridge waiting for some action....
I was wanting to pickup ingredients to make a Kolsch, but found out my supplier doesn't have the right liquid yeast, and I wanted to get started right away.
Does...