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if its a hastle or doesnt meet your schedule, or even if your impatient, I wouldnt bother, my last batch I dropped the temp for a day and kegged. if you did a 10 gallon batch to keg all your yeast will drop out, perhaps a bit too much. the trick is to store the 2nd keg upside down, so when you...

I just reciently brewed this and planned a double decoction mash, turned into a tripple decoction when I missed my step from a protien rest. I also used a few lbs of munich for the 10 G batch as well. the beer turned out pretty good but a little thin from too long of a protien rest. this is my...

Want to bring some notes from my process to the forum. Rhino farts! I had my first two batches give off strong sulpher type smells for a week or so about 5 days after pitching per instructions from OP. I deviated on my 3rd batch by rehydrating the yeast first. and not only did I have a super...

The update as promised. Repitching a pack of active dry yeast worked. Beer is nice and clean. no residual sweetness and a nice sharp bitter from the hops. I am so glad this worked. I pulled a sample and drank a coffee mug of it warm and flat and was impressed. warm and flat would have shown any...

I dont think you will have much of a problem. mash at 147 is low but not too bad. some people shoot for 151, you will have conversion of fermentable sugars, but it may turn out too dry. remember you will boil down your 1.030. which will bump it up higher. and not be so out of range when...

resurecting an old thread: I have brewed edworts recipe 2 times prior to having oxygen and yeast starters. I have just brewed JZ's hefe recipe, essentially the standard for style. but I was afraid of having the same outcome of my 1st two attempts. 1st attempt was too warm and, I agree, off...

Anyone who has brewed this before, and have been listening to the podcasts (including the latest at NHC), have any recommendations for a fella like me? I have put this brew off for about a year now and it looks like their latest attempt was farther away, with jamil stating to go back to special...

I should probably call the manufacturer about this, has anyone not kept fermcap refrigerated. the bottle I have been leaving out and using for a year now says keep refridgerated. I wonder if I should wait to drink until after im done brewing..... Wait I would rather lose a bottle of fermcap...

The brew is in a keg. I pulled it out and let it warm up and degas. I rehydrated dry yeast, make a 1.8L starter and let it munch for about 16 hrs, and it is hard at work in the keg now. Ill give it a week or so and pull a sample to report back to you all. I use 001 frequently and this recipe is...

Havent been to the lager house yet but I recommend the HB that place is easy to lose track of time. get the snitchel sandwich and a dunkel

yes I know the generals of dry yeast but I also am pitching in oxygenless/ already fermented beer. unexplored territory to me!

still I need a tip on pitching here. I will use safeale 05 which states not to make a starter. Should I just rehydrate and pitch, or make the starter. if so how big of a 1.040 starter? or should I make it closer higher OG? thanks in advance

wow tons of great info. i love it when i have decient questions let alone your two solid responses. so if once a sugar converts it cannot be changed or modified, does that make a traditional mashout say for fly spargers to not over extract, and get too much effeciency? I cant wrap my head...

I batch sparge, and from searching I see that a mashout isnt necessarily critical for me to hit. I always try and am low. I tried again yesterday and I am curious about how people talk mashout "preserves" sugar profile. say I mashed at 152 for however long, over an hour, when I went to do a mash...

so much of your description makes sense between the two beers, the HB hefe fluctuates but maybe im afixated on the banana thought that I imposed it on the HB but now that I think about it it tastes clove and has the aroma of banana more than a forefront of it. the wells banana 4 pack i just...

Hmm.. I am brewing a ten gallon batch this weekend. so far I have made a 1 liter starter at 1.040og I was going to step it up with another 1.5L starter with same og but I see you are recommending to do about half that. underpitching 50% per mr. malty for a 10 gallon batch makes me nervous...

Thanks for the response. I ferment in glass and I clean, scrub (carboy cleaner for drills) then sanatize. I am pretty anal about sanatizaiton so for now i am putting that on the backburner. maybe the less floc yeast are not quite settled a day or so after. that may explain it. new question...

Ill add that this is WLP001 and fermented at 67 degrees in a ferm chamber. the last one I let sit in the ferm chamber for 2 wks at 67 then pulled it out in a flucuating temp room that avg holds 72 degrees to let it sit on the yeast cake a bit warmer for another week or two also may have added a...

Just rebrewed my torpedo clone (again) and although its better than the last it isnt half as great as the first one I brewed. 1) brewed a 5 gallon batch with simple shake starter, was great and clean and super bitter and hoppy. this was bottle conditioned. a year later, 2) rebrew on a 10...

Ghpeel any word on the 50/25/25? I am looking at my hefeweisen recipe from brewing classic styles and it is 50/50 wheat pils. (brewing next saturday) I have tried edworts which is 66% wheat and 33% pils. but never really got what I was looking for. I have Hofbrauhaus newport near by and their...