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I would brew a dunkelweizen

I smacked it last night and it was ballooned up this morning. I think i'm good to go.

Ordered some yeast that arrived on monday and the cold pack was already ambient temp and the yeast smack pack was also. I plan to brew on saturday, should i smack it tonight and leave it at room temp until i brew?

OK, will probably just "work" really hard at kicking the half barrel I have left by this weekend and keep the beer in the primary until then.

I think you have that backwards. Here is something else I've found: The specific heat of vegetable oil is 1.67 kJ/(kg*K) and the specific heat of water is 4.19 kJ/(kg*K). It would take 255 kJ to raise vegetable oil from room temp to 350F, whereas it would take 319 kJ to raise water...

If both substances are the same, I would agree. Here is something I found: The oil will get hotter than the water for a given amount of added heat. That is due to the difference in Specific Heat capacities. The defining equation is ΔT = ΔQ/C where ΔT is the change in...

Not it isn't. Much harder to boil water than to catch oil on fire.

If I had to do all of those steps, I would quit homebrewing.

I don't have room in my kegerator right now, but will in about a week (finishing off a 1/2 barrel of Shiner Bock). I have some priming sugar for for 5 gallon batch that is done fermenting. My keg will be ready tomorrow as I'm soaking it in some PBW tonight that I will clean and rinse out...

I bought that same burner a couple of years ago for fish frying and could never achieve a blue flame, which meant the bottom of my pots would turn black with soot. I now have a Bayou Classic and have never looked back. I don't think that burner is meant to boil water, only to fry oil, which...

I just placed an order on Wednesday that was $112 and I got free shipping. Must have just happened. I was thinking of waiting until this weekend to order, but glad I did it on Wednesday now.

I set mine to 72 with a 2 degree differential and 12 minute compressor cycle. This gives me about 68 to 69 degree wort temp and even though the compressor kicks off at 70, my reading will continue to drop down to about 64. The reason why it gets so low is because even though the freezer has...

I just brewed my first batch this weekend and have a few weeks to get my keg setup for my kegerator. I have had this kegerator for over a year with no problems and all of the tubing, shanks and fittings are for commercial kegs. I bought a Corny Ball lock keg and fittings this weekend and...

Have you tried it on draft? Way better than the bottle. My wife loves the stuff, but only on draft.

Another local brewery is making a strawberry cream ale, which I think is better than Abita's version since it seems an ale is more suitable and might be easier to get right. The name of it is Covington Strawberry Cream Ale. It is a lot better from the tap than it is from the bottle btw.

Thanks for the replies. Going to purchase a funnel and strainer.

I'm going to brew my first beer this weekend, which is a Bavarian style hefeweizen. Here are my questions: 1) I will be transferring my wort to a better bottle and don't have a funnel or strainer, do I just use my autosiphon? Will that give me enough aeration? In not, how can I add...