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Yeah, I'm hoping that I get just a tad bit of banana from my bottle conditioning at around 74 degrees. Other than that I think I'm not going to get much esters wise. Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep you posted on how mine turns out. Please let me know how yours is when you taste it again.

Ok, so I brewed my second brown ale. I made a starter yesterday out of American Ale yeast I had frozen but apparently it was frozen too long because it was doing nothing (I had good outcomes with the same frozen yeast before guess it was just too long gone). So, I had the girl go grab me a...

Well, I did a lot of reading an settled on around 64-66 and right now no esters. I've been seeing a lot of people claim hotter is better for esters so. I dunno. I think I'm just going to do hefes for my next few batches and experiment. I'm going to try under pitching a bit more as well.

That's good to know did the esters become more pronounced?

more of a tart taste but very slight.

btw: I used Wyeast 3638

I just bottled this today so I am not worried yet but I wanted to get some thoughts from anyone who has made a few hefeweizens. I just bottled it today. This was an all grain brew with an OG of 1.046 and FG of 1.011. It smells like a decent hefe but when I took a taste from the tester there...

Beautiful

Very cool. Can't wait to graduate and move me and the lady to our own place and expand my brewery.

Hi, I was browsing and saw this post and had to show some pics of mine. I made one pretty much exactly like he was describing. I am doing a new batch on Saturday (2 days from now) so maybe I'll video my cooling system. But here is a pic for now. I fill it with one bag of ice and water usually...