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I've got a Dunkelweizen fermenting now, and for the last 5-7 days it's been stalled at 1.020 when Brewer's Friend is projecting 1.013. It was one of my first partial mash attempts, and I didn't get great efficiency (OG was 1.049 vs expected of 1.054), but I figured I'd just go with a lower ABV...

Thanks - don't think I can find Atwater's stuff near me, but I'll see. I'm figuring the munich will give it some sweetness and the wheat will add some body and head retention. The pale ale is mostly to use it up and boost the gravity a little - I've made a few pale ales with just that DME that...

So I've accumulated some odds and ends of DME and hops and such over the last year of getting into this hobby, and I'm trying to figure out if it's worth just experimenting with a small batch. I don't want it to be undrinkable, but I also don't want to be flying completely blind. I put...

OP again - after reading through all this, I think the last couple of posts are where I'm settling in. At this point in my brewing career, clarity is a lower priority to ensuring that I'm getting the basics of brewing down (I know, I know, to a lot of people, clarity is one of the basics...)...

Thanks to all the replies for this question. It's an interesting debate. I'm certainly trying to get the beers as clear as possible, but given the mixed success at clearing them (and the fact that I've generally enjoyed all of them regardless of the clarity) I was wondering if I was...

Relatively new brewer here. I've been wondering a bit about the process of clearing beer...not how to do it (there are plenty of resources around about that), but more why. Barring entering a beer into competition, where I'm assuming clarity is a part of the criteria, is there anything other...

For my first stab at an extract Wheat, I used Mangrove Jack Bavarian Yeast M20 - when I took my first gravity reading after bubbles slowed down, you'd have thought I mashed bananas in the fermenter. Just drank my first bottle, which has been conditioning for about 10 days, and there's pretty...

For what it's worth, I'm a new brewer and do primarily extract brewing currently. I created a simple Pale Ale recipe to begin testing different hops. The first two I did were Citra and Cascade, and I got much more bitterness from the Citra (which makes sense - it's the higher AA%). The...

Thanks, all! Figured they'd be twist-offs - too bad. I'll keep an eye out for the others - didn't think the that wing cappers may have problems with the shape, but makes sense. May be my excuse to gift myself a bench capper this holiday season! I like the idea of have a set of unique bottle...

Anyone know if the stubby bottles that Budweiser is packaging their new vintage beer in are twist off or pry off? Doubt I'll be a fan of the beer, but I like the bottles, and I'm thinking of getting a case for my father in law just to reuse the bottles - obviously if they're twist off, I won't...

Since I've gotten into homebrewing, I've been noticing more and more the number of small breweries around (SE Pennsylvania), and when I travel, I've started looking more and more for the local (not necessarily craft) breweries, primarily so I can experience as many different types and levels of...

In the event that I need to store a beer for a while before bottling, what's the safest way to do that? I tend to do smaller batches (1G primarily, stepping up to 2G soon) and don't always have time to bottle on any sort of schedule. It's obvious that once you keg something, it can be stored...

Are there any ways to cut OG prior to fermentation other than adding water? Similar to the OP, I just started a small batch where the base cider (from a local orchard) had an OG north of 1.100! I'm letting it run to see what happens, but I'm looking at an apfelwein otherwise. May turn out we...

Before I started brewing earlier this year, I was fairly narrow in my beer tastes, although not that limited. I just thought I knew what I liked and stuck within that range. After doing my first couple of kits and reading a ton of posts on this site and others, I realized that if I wanted to...

Thanks everyone - this is roughly what I suspected, and the advice is appreciated. Very useful information, as always around here!

I use 1/2 packet of yeast in my batches (only doing gallons at this point). When I started out using NB recipes, the instructions always said to pitch the remaining yeast, so I didn't really question and just got into the habit. Now I'm starting to experiment a little. I've got a basic Pale...

Beautiful. Thanks for the help. Think I'm going to test some things out with a Citra Pale Ale - had a delicious one recently, and I've tweaked the process in Brewers Friend to get roughly the same ABV and IBUs using a hopstand. With any luck it'll work, and I'll adapt it to start learning...

All - digging around, but not sure I've been able to find a clean answer to this. When an ingredient (hops, orange peel, etc) is listed as being added at flameout, I understand that means that when the boil is ended, wort is taken off the heat and the ingredient is added. How long does it...

Gets better even by the week early on. Didn't do CS until my 4th or 5th brew. Wasn't impressed with the first bottle I tried at about the same point as your taste, but even a week or so later it was noticably better. I'm trying to space them out, but will have to make some more soon since I'm...

I have a 1G batch of Caribou Slobber in primary now, and saw exactly the same thing you did - heavy airlock activity and krausen were both gone in about 72 hours or so (temp was +/- 72F). Actually glad to hear that is typical...was a little worried, but figured I'd play it out and see what I...