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Excellent! Thanks to everyone for your help. I guess I'll keep doing what I'm doing and also let the Hefe sit for awhile longer. How do you know when the fermentation is complete? My first batch was sitting in the primary for 7 days and was still bubbling about once every 5 minutes or so...

I have read about the need to properly aerate your beer and decided to pour the wort through a strainer and into the primary. I do, however, have a quesiton about the proper way to do this. If I understand correctly, when you rack to the secondary, it is important to do it "quietly"...

Excellent game last night, especially in HD. :rockin: Too bad after the Canes won, I decided that I was going to get drunk and stay up until 3am, so I'm paying for it now. :(

The one that tastes bad is the Generic Weizenbeir from the BB kit and boy is it dark. I guess that's from the LME. The addition of the lemon or orange sounds good. I figured it would need something to "liven" it up. I guess I'll just have to wait until my Franziskaner clone is done to...

That was what I have heard, and the guy at the HBS told me that it would be bland. Everytime I go into the store, it's always packed. Sometimes, I feel like I'm back at a college party, except everyone is there making beer and not drinking it. :drunk: Honestly, I have no idea. It was in...

Humm.....I don't have my notebook with me, but it was in the primary for 7 days and then about 8 or 9 in the secondary. So, I would say about 15 or 16 days. I thought it tasted like beer that had been left out overnight after a party. Flat (obviously :) ) and really bitter. Not like...

I have 2 beers going right now and need some advise on both of them. I am working with this recipe right now: Franziskaner Hefe-Weisse (from Beer Captured) 4 oz Belgian Aromatic Malt 2 oz Acid Malt 6 lb. 5 oz. Muntons Wheat Dry Malt Extract 2¼ oz. Malto Dextrin 1 oz. American...

Thanks a bunch! I think I'm going to try this one out......provided my LHBS has all the ingredients.

I don't think that my wife would appreciate that too much. :p There are pictures of her on the internet, but she has her clothes on. :(

Nope, they weren't pre-crushed.......The lady said that they didn't need to be after looking at my recipe. Is my beer going to taste like crap? :(

I made this last week and have a question about the recipe. I guess I should have asked before I brewed, but oh well. :D Are you supposed to grind up the grain before you steep? I was told by the lady in the LHBS that I didn't need to do anything before I used them. The were whole and...

Could someone post up the recipe for this? Thanks!

Would you mind sharing your recipe? :o

I'm bringing my thread back because I have some additional questions about my 2 running batches. I have a batch in the secondary that will be ready to bottle at the end of the week. It looks pretty good and seems to have cleared nicely. The only problem is that there seems to be a very...

Which recipe did you use? I used the Franziskaner Clone recipe that Baron von BeeGee was kind enough to point me too.

I will be bottling my 1st homebrew later this week sometime and have a couple of questions about the bottling process. 1.) Once the bottles are clean and dry, how long can they sit before you need to use them? 2.) What temperature should you store your bottles at during the 2 week...

This is my first time brewing, so please bear with me if I use the wrong terms. Here was my recipe: Brewer's Best Full-Bodied Weizenbier 6.6lbs Plain Wheat Malt Extract 1.0oz Hallertau Hops (Bittering) 1/2 oz Hallertau Hops (Finishing) 1 each Beer Yeast (That's all it says) I...

I found this, but I don't know if it will help or not: http://sdcollins.home.mindspring.com/ForceCarbonation.html

Yeah, it was one of those "I've never done this before" things. I was following the recipe, but I made 2 mistakes. I forgot to check my final volume after transfer to the fermenter because I started with 5 gallons (wasn't accounting for boiling loss). I also neglected to cover my wort while I...

But wouldn't I be diluting the beer back to the alcohol content and flavor that it should have been in the first place? Since I used less water than I should have initially, my wort was just more concentrated than it should have been. So by adding enough water to bring me up to 5g, I would...