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steeped 1/2 lb caramunich 1 and 1lb white wheat brought to boil and removed from heat stirred in 3.3 lb bavarian wheat LME 1 oz hallertau at 60 min and 1 oz cascade at 30 minutes 1 oz hallertau at flame out stirred in another 3.3 lb wheat LME with a few minutes left in boil pretty simple...

Now been 36 days in the bottle. The diacytle went away but still has a strange cloying after taste. Not sure if this will improve or not. The F.G. was 1.013 so i was expecting a much dryer finish. I did realize though that I used 5 oz of corn sugar and this was only a 3.5 gallon batch...

I decided to just go ahead and bottle as the beer tasted pretty balanced and had a nice biscuit like malt taste. It also reminded me of a wine, strangely. Had a slightly slick mouth feel but did not taste any buttery diacytle. I only needed 12 grams of maple syrup so not enough to miss, I...

It has been 3 weeks in primary now. I am considering priming this with some 100% pure vermont maple syrup I got for last christmas. Terrible idea? Ive got an OG of 1.072 with a calculated 42 IBUs. That should be enough bittering taste wise but, I may even dry hop with an ounce of whole leaf...

I have a weizenbock in bottles now for 17 days. It tasted really nice before bottling. I tried one after 10 days. Put it in fridge for a few hours and poured it. Looks great, good head. Tastes Bad , it seems to have gotten more bitter in a bad way, also a buttery slick taste that it did not...

Now that you mention it, I noticed that my thermometer never went past 202 during the main boil. The first few batches it went up to 212. Maybe it is now off and I mashed 10 too low? I kept the grain in a loose large muslin bag and mushed it around a few times.

Well, I went for it last night. I used the kettle as the mash tun. Used all 5 lbs of crushed Maris Otter Ended up being about 1.6 quarts/lb of water for the mash. Held between 150° and 155° for 55 minutes. I removed the grain bag and put it in colander over pot to drain. Poured another...

Excellent! That sounds great and a fun little step. So I could also get a bit more color from this? Since the MO is so pale, this would be a way to get the smash into the official style of a english bitter. Really cool stuff thanks for the suggestions.

I am not sure I understand this part. Are you saying take the first half gallon I get from the mash and boil that until it is 1/4 gallon?

in response to gotpushrods: Ohh right on. I didnt read right. I am just going to BIAB Only a 1 gallon batch. 2.5 lbs MO @ 154° 40 minutes in a volume of 1 Gallon pour 1 gallon of sparge water @ 170° slowly over grain bag in collander. Collect runnings together and bring to boil. Take an SG...

Thats interesting. Fuggles/ sulfate hmmm, I dont know that I like them, they are aroma supposed woody fruity? Maybe I should try a bitter and just use the fuggles for a shot in the beginning of boil

Ive got 5lbs crushed Marris Otter 2 row on hand, Also have 2 oz of Fuggles whole leaf. I have a empty 5 gal carboy also a 1 gall flask. My yeast choices are: wlp005 british ale wlp833 german bock a pack muntons dry yeast It seems pretty clear I should shoot for maybe a 2.5 gall...

Hi all , Ive been sampling beer from my first batch. It was a kit called AmberBock from Midwest. Munton's 4 lb. Bock hopped can kit, 2 lb. of Light Dried Malt Extract, 1 oz. Tettnang aroma pellet hops. This was in primary 10 days until consistent FG readings. and secondary another 2 weeks...

Thanks for the responses all. Im putting an extract recipe together for my next batch. Some sort of Rye ale maybe and I would like that peppery finish to it. Yeast Candidates : Safbrew T-58 or Bavarian Wheat yeast Note: my fermentation will be at from lows 60s to 65° Extract: Briess...

Recently I have had a couple beers that were described as "peppery" Yards love stout had this quality as well as sierra nevada ruthless rye. My wife and I really enjoyed it and we are wondering what is the ingredients that contribute to this? Is it the type yeast? Hop variety? Or actual peppers...

Welcome to the foums. Ive also recently started brewing and I cant get enough! Good luck with the hop growing, sounds very interesting.

Yesterday I was home all day with the wife and baby so we figured we could bottle up our first batch we brewed from an extract 20 minute boil kit about 6 weeks ago. We did that in the morning and everything went pretty well! Cant wait to try it. After bottling we started our second batch...

Thanks for the response! Going to bottle this weekend maybe :)

Greetings all! Ive been reading this forum for a month or so now and finally registered. The quality of information here is wonderful and the atmosphere seems top notch. My wife and I just got into home brewing after we realized how our taste for craft brews was effecting our bank account...