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Yep, longer boils help with clarity, it's another reason why lagers and pilsners tend to require 90 minute boils. I just made a pilsner that's in the fermenter and I did a 2 hour boil - it was by far the clearest I've ever seen the wort go into the fermenter. I'm pumped for that beer.

I'd also recommend checking out craigslist and facebook marketplace for used systems. Locally there was a mash & boil for $150 that I saw which if it's not something you like you could always resale for a similar price.

All of my dumpers have been trying to make an NA beer. First was a recipe I designed and it was sweet and bitter. Used 1/3 the hops the second time, same result. 3rd time I used the 2nd runnings of another beer, but again used WAY too many hops and was way too yeasty. 4th time I did the same...

Correct, no phenols in my beer - incorrectly put that there. What I’m getting is slightly sulfuric and banana before a couple weeks of lagering. After being in my keg for a while though, most of that is gone, but definitely more present than when using MJs Cali lager yeast

Brewed my Helles recipe with 34/70 and it was a pretty big banana bomb for about a week. Now it’s a nice crisp German lager. Pitched a Pils yesterday and don’t think I’ve ever had a clearer wort to start. Hopefully should have some time for it to settle before tapping that keg. After a few...

I don't make starters, but I do make a 1 gallon batch and then pitch the slurry into a 5 gallon batch and then continuously use 1/2 of that slurry for future batches. It's basically a starter, but I get to drink the beer :) The slurry pitches are definitely better than the dry pitch

I have an imperial honey lager on tap right now. The honey flavor is fairly prominent and it's based off a local beer of the same type. ~14lbs of grain as the backbone with 3 lbs of honey added at 10 minutes before the boil. It's a really tasty beer, so much so that I try to limit to only one...

My best was probably my really simple Helles I made over the summer. Super simple 90% pilsner, 10% munich, 90 min mash, 90 min boil - 1/2 oz of German hops at 60, 1 oz at 30 - fermented at ale temps with MJ's Cali Lager yeast. Let it go for about 10 days, kegged it, then let it lager in my...

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I store mine in containers I got at Target. I think they were $20 or $30, but I've got varying sizes, 3 for my 50 lbs bags (pale ale, pilsner, munich) and a bunch of other ones for my specialty grains. Helps me stay in stock through numerous brews.

Yeah, I have had 1 (outta 5 glass one-gallon fermenters) break on me, but it just leaked where the siphon was so I got lucky (and used the spigot to make a fermenter out of a 5 gallon bucket I had, so nothing really lost). The plastic one is a little more expensive and I wasn't sure if you...

One gallon brewing, you likely have most of the stuff you need to do all grain, or it's cheap to get. You can get this kit right off the bat for $60 -> Craft Beer Making Kit With Siphonless Fermenter - 1 Gallon You just need a soup pot and some empty bottles from a 12 pack you drink in the...

Right there with ya

I get 1/2 that, but that’s likely due to my beer having a bigger malt backbone than your recipe. Even with that, the IBUs are mostly flavor/aroma - so the perception isn’t nearly what that calculator says. It’s less than my favorite IPAs, but the amount of hops in my recipe wasn’t really the...

Oh yeah. 5 gallons. It's definitely on the APA side of hoppiness, but I've found that Lutra tends to mute hoppy beers. This is an easy drinking standard at our house

My Lutra Citra Pale Ale is always a hit and is just a boat load of Citra hops. Hop schedule is: .75 oz @60 1.25oz @15 1.25oz @10 1.25oz @5 1.25oz @ 0 2.25oz Whirlpool @170 No dryhop as the last time I did in this beer it was really hazy. I've done it with McKenzie and Centennial hops as...

Just know, that even though you gave them great instructions, probably multiple times, they are still going to drink from the bottle or pour everything into the glass. Watched my neighbors do it right after explaining for ~3rd time - witnessing my beautiful clear beer turn into a yeasty hazy...

MJs Cali lager yeast is growing to become my favorite lager yeast. Can ferment warm, very clean, ridiculously fast, and short lager times. At 21days (14 lagering) my Helles was the hit of my Oktoberfest. Didn’t need a starter either.

S04 is my goto ale yeast and I’ve never gotten that flavor either. Probably because when I do there are so many flavors that I never really get any yeast flavors. I prefer it to the US05 lately, just because I’ve gotten a couple of duds that didn’t ferment at all.