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DOH! I had read somewhere that doing a quick (15 min) rest at 124 on the recipe which contained modified wheat would help it maintain cloudiness. It was sloppy of me not to research this more and I should have just gone with my first gut instinct which was to add the flour. The good news is...

Looking for suggestions on keeping my witbier cloudy. I brewed my witbier for this years NHC which has done well in competition in the past but I have had trouble keeping it cloudy. This batch I did a step mash at 120ish in hopes of keeping it cloudy per the style. But, alas, yesterday I poured...

+1 on Happi's low calcium suggestion., I use RO and build up. If you want to go this route and dont have access to RO buy distilled. My ESB has done well in comps and I use the following water profile with my RO water for ESB: Ca= 104 Mg = 0 Na = 70 SO4 = 206 Cl = 44 HC03 = 0

Nice choice of beers. ESB is one of my top 3 beers can't get enough of it. You said it dropped to 1.020 then dropped a few points after that. What was your actual final gravity? Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say, "started to run low on beer from the hydrometer readings"...

I put "fragile" 5-6 times on the box so I'm guessing you are right that they used it for a pick up ball game. Although what could have happened is the competition I sent the beers to had the participants send the beers to a homebrew shop with HOMEBREW in the name of the shop plus attn: HOMEBREW...

I had 9 beers sent to a comp in Oregon. Got the exception notice "UNAUTHORIZED ALCOHOL SHIPMENT WAS DISCOVERED... blah blah blah." DOn't know if a bottle broke or what but they said they couldnt deliver any of it or return any of it. I had a **** ton of bubble wrap and each bottle...

If you are cleaning and sanitizing everything properly you may want to consider Diacetyl from fermentation issues. I too had what I would call a hay flavor and an astringency/dry mothfeel in 2 beers that I attributed to diacetyl due to ineffective fermentation practices, (improper temps/kegged...

I used to rack all of my beers to secondary and now I only rack beers like Russian Imperial Stouts that have will be in a fermentation chamber for long periods of time to seondary. If you listen to Jamil and other experts they have said there really is no need for a secondary and I agree. If...

I know this may be a dumb question but I will ask it just in case. Do you wait 15 minutes after you dough-in before starting your recirculation? I have a similar setup and would constantly get a stuck mash as I would start my recirc as soon as the grain hit the water and the dough balls were...

I am on my fourth version of a wit that usually comes out excellent. This version I way undershot on the spices and I overpitched on the yeast as the Belgian yeast strain I used is all I taste in this beer that I keeged this evening. I'm considering adding some more citrus zest and coriander...

Just checked my White labs poster and it shows the WLP029 Kolsch yeast attenuation at 72 -78%. My OG = 1.047 and the FG was all the way down to 1.007. (I calibrated my hydrometer and performed the reading at 59 F for FG) This is an apparent attenuation of 85%. My question is should I be...

I'm using my same kettle for this 5 gallon batch that I would use for my 10 gallon batches (It's a keggle) Do you think the boil off rate would be different based on the volume of liquid in the BK?

Hello to all of you BeerSmith users. I have a new 10 gallon system and I have brewed two 10 gallon batches. Yesterday I purchased the ingredients for a 5 gallon batch of blonde ale that I want to brew on my 10 gallon system. Do you think I will need to make any changes to my BeerSmith...

I'm liking the hopblocker idea. Hard to tell from the pic. How does it work? Does it plug in to the ball valve exit from the kettle?

Got it. Do you guys have side pickups on your kettles? I don't have one and in my test I'm leaving about 2.5 gallons in my kettle. So I'm thinking I probably need some sort of pickup that extracts from the side so as to not mess with the trub cone.

So how long should I let it settle after turning the pump off?

I'm currently water testing my new 3 tier homebrew system. I'm using keggles and I'm testing with 10 gallons. I have one of the large 50' ICs from More beer and I've hooked up a whirlpool arm via JZ's instructions. My pump is a Chugger with a 7 gallon per minute flow rate. When I turn the...

How did you measure the OG? Did you use a hydrometer or a refractometer. I'm assuming you used a hydrometer. And if so, what was the temp of the wort that you measured? There can be swings if you don't measure at 60F. If it isn't at 60 F there are spreadhsheets out there to add or subtract...

Looks like the line is about 25-30 feet from meter to the back yard. I guess what I want to ask is am I going to loose any significant BTU's by having the last 14 " of my NG line at 3/8 when the rest of the line is 1/2? Looks like Bobby answered that question as having a short 14" flex line at...

Wait..., are you the Bobby that I just bought a site glass for my HLT?? Love it! works great and the YouTube video you produced showing how to install and add the numbers was very helpful.