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OG 1.065 fg 1.016

Recipe: 2gallon batch 3# Briess wheat dme .4oz aromatic malt (20min steep) .3oz tettnang 60min .1oz tettnang 5min WL300 (full container added) 2 weeks primary. 1 week bottle. Tasting it today. Came out great flavors. Smells like banana. The thing is it's really sweet. Not overwhelming but...

Aww man. Yes I used the whole pack of yeast. Next time I'll use only a quarter. Too bad I have another hefeweisen fermenting and I also used the whole pack. I fermented around 68-72 in the closet. Not sure exactly.

Aww man. Yes I used the whole pack of yeast. Next time I'll use only a quarter. Too bad I have another hefeweisen fermenting and I also used the whole pack. I fermented around 68-72 in the closet. Not sure exactly.

I bottled in about 10days ago and I tasted it after 1 week. The carbonation was great, the color, and the retention were all better than expected. The taste however was not all there. The flavors felt subdued and the finish weak. The banana was present but not too crazy. I decided to wait...

I decided to brew the beer without any specialty grains. I used 2 lbs wheat dme and .4 oz of hallertau and boiled for 60 min. i only got a gravity reading of 1.035 though i didn't have a thermometer so i'm not sure if that's an inflated number or deflated. maybe, i should've used more dme? some...

Thank you sir! I will do that!

Thanks guys for the advice! I found this recipe online and I thought it was a great easy recipe with minimal ingredients. i just want to make a decent beer and i'm such a beginner. I wanted to stick close to the recipe I found which I found here...

Thanks! Can I add torrified wheat instead of the the wheat malt when I steep? I don't have a blender. Can I use a ziploc and rolling pin? How small does the flaked wheat need to be?

I'll be using a mr. beer keg so i don't know if i'll be able to put a blow off tube in it. i'll let mother nature decide my fate! But thanks for the advice man.

After brewing 2 Mr. Beer beers. (2nd still in carbonating phase) I've decided to step it up and brew a hefeweizen. Here's the recipe as follows. German Hefeweizen Malt Base: 5 lbs Wheat Dry Malt Extract OR 6 lbs Wheat Liquid Malt Extract Specialty Grains: ½ lb Flaked Wheat, 1/2 lb Flaked...