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I let it sit and I swirl my carboy.most of the hop material ends up on the bottom. I haven't had much of a problem with clarity or chunks.

Is there anything wrong with your tap water? I literally use hose water for my beers and the ph is just fine. I heat the hose water to my strike temp and mash in after I heat the tun. I've never had a problem and the beers turn out awesome!

I am planning on brewing this on April 7th. I'm so excited! I've finally had the opportunity to try the Elder Nd the Younger. The Elder is better IMO and I can't wait to have this on tap here at my house in PA.

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I thought that adding gypsum was only supposed to be done to the mash if necessary in order to hit the appropriate ph level for conversion. That may be why you're getting a strange flavor.

That's reassuring. I'm sure it's probably fine. The aroma coming out of the growler the blowoff tube is in smells awesome.

Update: it's been back in the kegerator all day and all krausen has dropped. It's starting to clear by the top and I noticed a large layer of yeast starting to settle on the bottom on top of the trub. Hopefully I had perfect timing and didn't create a fruity, off flavor lager.

That's what I'm thinking/ hoping. I was just very surprised by how much activity there was after I let it warm up. Now, my possible theories include off gassing to even out pressure because I took it out of the kegerator, off gassing because it was warming, off gassing because I moved it around...

This is a Noble Pils and I dry hop twice. The first time I made it, it was my first all grain brew. It was still one of my favorite beers ever to this day. I'm holding out hope that I didn't get any esters from the two days at room temp after a week in fermentation. We will see.

It's my second lager. I made this same recipe before, but used liquid yeast and a starter. I decided to try dry yeast for the first time and used two packets to increase pitch rate because I figured That I wanted a very neutral yeast profile. I don't remember how it fermented before but it seems...

I everyone. I want to start this off by saying I accidentally forgot to take on OG reading on brew day because I was helping a buddy do his first AG as I was brewing my own. I pitched and aerated two packets of Saflager S-23, which I've never used, once wort was down to 70 degrees and I placed...

Welcome! I'm also from Philly. There is a great shop on Sansom Street called Home Sweet Homebrew. There is also another shop in Bensalem, but the selection isn't as good.

Pics? I'm so interested in this thread. The oldest homebrew I've had was two years old. Not bad, but not good because it was from my second batch. I keep hoping I'll find some IPAs or Pumpkin beers somewhere in my house that I accidentally hid.

I brewed a lower gravity (4.5-5.2%) Noble Pils this weekend. I really enjoy the lower gravity, full flavored beers. I don't like being stupid drunk and I love to have one or two after work. The only problem with high gravity beers is high gravity headaches. I'll save those for holidays.

What was/is your fermentation temp? That is extremely important with Wit stains of yeast.

I'm drinking Lagunitas Sucks Brown Sugga Substitute. This stuff is heavenly and right there with Pliny! I have some Firewalker to go through tonight too. Hey V Day everyone!

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Another vote to Leave it in primary. You don't need to use secondary.