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Except instead of dead rodents you will have hundreds of live ones just waiting for you to brew more AG! HA ha, a veritable army! If you feed them they will come.

Well I sampled this Hefe early last night. It turned out exactly how I envisioned it :) A nice moderate strawberry smell, a golden peach color to the beer, and a nice medium body. It taste great like a Hefe should, and has a nice little bit of Strawberry in there. It finished with a nice bit...

I hate to say it guys but 120-140F is not proper pasteurization temp. In fact, you just brought the temp through a warm swing and cooled which is conductive to growing nasties. Pasteurizing temp is 155-170 for most food items. 120f is definitely not hot enough. For strawberries I wash them...

I would reduce the Carapils if you want a light body, 1 lb seems like way too much if you want to keep it light feeling. I would shift 1/2 lb into the Pale malt, or else you F.G will go up a bit with the unfermentable dextrins contained in the Carapils. Your session would end up a little...

+1 The sun beating down on my patio can turn a glass of beer warm in about 5 minutes. We actually dance the glasses around the table to stay in the shade of our tropical plant on the patio table. A frosty mug gives you an extra 15 minutes, meaning I finish my pint generally when it is...

For sure it affects it! All these people saying it doesn't obviously don't drink enough beer from the proper glass. They all are designed quite specifically, with a few exceptions. I use large tall weizen glasses for my Hefeweizens; they allow for alot of head to collect and when you tip it...

People debate whether a Half pound (8oz) is too much or not enough in a five gallon batch. Some batches of honey malt may have flavouring differences even within a malting house. More likely though is that people have different taste thresholds so you may want to start low and work up to 8 oz...

100g Dried malt extract per litre, boil for 5-15 minutes and then cool quickly and inoculate with yeast at pitching temp. Several hours to a day or two later you can pitch the whole thing into a beer with average to higher gravity to ensure your yeast have a big enough army.

+1. To quote Palmers book on the subject "How to Brew" (Ch16. Pg 168 ) "....for example a 20 minute rest at 60C (140F) combined with a 40 minute rest at 70C(158F) produces a sweeter, more dextrinous beer, while switching those times at those temperatures would produce a drier, more...

Do you have enough beer in the sample cylinder for it to float?

You had an aggressive weizen ferment with not enough headspace. Are you talking 6.5 gallons as in 27 litres? Usually 5.5 gallons or so requires a blowoff, you just didn't have enough space and too much beer possibly. And the word is LIQUID. :) We're you keepin your temperatures around 70F...

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My opinion is like the others, your temps were too low for the Hefe yeast to throw out its high concentrations of esters and phenols. That being said: To me, it looks like your grain bill is a little light for a 10 gallon batch also isnt it? I used 4 lbs wheat with 1 lb added malts(2-row,honey...

Hey Gwitz, I am returning to Vernon/Kelowna for my annual summer vacation in a couple weeks. Whats Gambrinus like, is it just a small storefront to a malt house? I guess I'm wondering if they offer tours or anything.. I think I may also want a big sack of honey malt.

I would go out and find some beer that has the bottles you drink, and drink a bunch during a party you host. I've done that and now have over 80 1L swing top brown bottles, 60 swing top grolsche bottles, a case of 22oz bombers and about 60 of the 500 mL import pop tops. I've only ever bought a...

What sort of final volume are you going for quincy? Looks like a 2-3 gallon batch to me? If you arn't using honey malt I would add your honey as late as possible. Right after your boil is off the heat, but between 160F and 220F. This gives it time to sterilize and/or pasteurize but not...

Usually I agree, but this time I cleaned them and put a new garbage bag over all the bottle tops. I don't really enjoy the half hour spent cleaning the bottles before actually bottling, so I like to split it up sometimes. I will report back in a couple weeks with a report on whether they are...

I just got into the partial mashing from kits. I do 4-6 lbs mash and add extracts and sugars during/after boil in a BIAB system 5 gallon aluminum pressure cooker. Lids more or less useless except for hastening boil with supervision. My post boil is like 12-13 litres so 3 gallon.. I'm keeping...

I had a similar question to this post. I have a Presto pressure cooker that's about 5 gallon but Im wondering where the balance line is between stove top partial mash/boils and ale grain mash tun is drawn. I'm looking at the propane turkey fryer 8 gallon option or maybe a 3 gallon pot for a...

Though I do have a bottle of honey at home that mentions not to feed it to a child under one year of age. Honey can harbour certain nasties like Clostridium spores.. Bad for infants, but for a beer drinker, honey actually cannot sustain any fungus or bacteria. It's ageless if stored right and...