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Thanks for the response guys! For my 5 gallon batch, I decided to go right in between you two. I can't wait to brew this up. One more question though, is there any reason you didn't use vanilla extract from the bottle rather than using an actual vanilla bean?

Hey guys, I'm going to be buying the supplies for this recipe and I can't help but to think about how much I'll be mashing! Did anyone else do this recipe with less grains? Or is having such a high OG what makes this so "pumpkin pie-ish"? I won't skimp out if this is what everybody else did and...

I'm in the midst of fermenting an apricot wheat beer and I decided to wait about 5 days into primary fermentation to siphon the beer on top of a bunch of apricots. It was still bubbling here and there when I decided to make this transfer. Now that the beer is in the fermenter with the apricots...

Yeah I've actually been doing that quite a bit as well. Currently looking into how to make Stiegl Pils or maybe a Spaten Oktoberfest. Hmmmmm this brewing "hobby" seems to be turning into a bit of an obsession :mug:

Solbes and mrkrausen, thanks for the responses! It seems like they may be on the right track. Just need to brew some more beer and let the kolschs bottle in peace for a while more.

ajwillys, it wasn't necessarily very hoppy, its just that you could make out the hop flavor. No extreme bitterness by any means. My OG was 1.052 and my FG was 1.012 so that seems reasonable. Do you usually cool the temp. at all during conditioning for a kolsch? Anyways, I'll definitely let it...

I decided that I wanted to make a kolsch lawnmower beer so I brewed up a batch. It was delicious during every gravity reading and was coming along quite nicely for the 3 weeks that I fermented it. It seemed nice and refreshing with i nice hoppy flavor (or as refreshing as flat beer can get)...