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Late addition is good. You do get better hop utilization (you should put about 10% of your total extract in the water at the start of the 60 minutes by the way for hop alpha acids to bind to). You will notice a fresher malt flavor and reduced color. The late addition does reduce browning of...

Also you can run the flaked grains through a coffee mill first, after being powdered in the coffee mill they shouldn't cause much sticking in the grain mill.

I would subtract the orange slice and lemon wedge from the equation, as they are more serving preference (or mistake) than beer difference. The malt bill and hopping are pretty interchangeable on the two beer, except that a German wheat would use wheat malt, and the Belgians unmalted wheat...

Good luck, I'm heading to the unemployment line come April. Mine is willful, though. Best of luck finding work, or at least enjoying your lack of work.

The rakes only cut into the surface of the grain bed helping to prevent channeling and improve speed of run off. And with the nice ones, when you run them backwards the rake blades swing to the side and pus most of the grain out (beats climbing in there with a snow shovel, although it isn't as...

Try going through itunes and searching for the podcast there.

Yep, if you're looking for the numbers, specific attenuation rates and such for a specific yeast, the manufacturers sight is the best source. If you want some audio yeast info there are these interviews from the brewing network: White Labs 8-12-07 White Labs 8-20-06 White Labs 1-22-06 Wyeast...

You're right. Now print that out and take it to investors to raise the $300,000-$1,000,000 you need for start up. Reality is no fun sometimes. Malt prices are doubling, hop prices are tripling, stainless steel, glass, cardboard are all up, not to mention oil. There are many obstacles that...

Time to brew it again. Any solution beyond trying to resuspend the flocced yeast or waiting, will arguably change the profile of the beer. How are you checking the gravity? Have you checked the hydrometer? I would let it rest a bit longer, even lowering the temp down to the mid 70's again...

What temperature is it at? You can bump the temp up a bit a few degrees at this point without much risk of bad alcohols or unpleasant esters.

I'm on the path myself. Good advice so far. I would add, work for someone else before you open your own place. You can learn a lot more by doing it than imagining doing it, and you get to learn and get paid. Get an assistant brewer's job before you attend one of the schools (Davis or...

Thanks Tex. I've Jamil-ized myself for the occasion.

Give this BN show a listen (skip the first 45 minutes if you don't want the witty banter). Then they follow up with a thorough discussion of 3 levels of brew house(backyard brewers, shed brewers, and brewers with an extremely large budget). They cover things like lighting, water, power, gas...

I like the fish scale effect of the finish. Feel free to post more pics :)

Shouldn't Toilet Seat and Sponge Mop have dropped out by now? I'd expect Happy Fun Ball to go negative soon and expose Speak-n-Spell's potential for spelling out dirty words.

hot pink! :)

Vienna or Munich You want to sell large amounts, not 10 lbs of 2 row and .5 lb of the crystal. If you are moving 5-10 lbs of 2 row and munich/vienna at a time your boss will take notice (nobody in their right mind is buying 10 lbs of Organic Raspberry Crunch Granola). That being said...

I think Hopunion will test the AA content of hops for $35 or so. I think I heard it mentioned in an interview a few months ago on the BN.

Doesn't work? Sounds broken. Give it a little shake and if you hear stuff jingling around inside... it is very broken.

How long is it sitting in primary? Not using a secondary won't cause problems (and using a secondary won't solve any).