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SLF, Congrats on your first lager! Mine was just a few months ago. +1 on madscientists suggestion on the read. Would you say that the sweetness reminds you of corn on the cob? That's probably diacetyl. Check out the write up on brulosopher. You probably should have come up just a few more...

Great. My girl wants a grapefruity drink. Thinking about trying the sparkling cider approach. Over prime with juice and pasteurize before bottle bombs

Have never done a fruit beer before but my Sig other keeps hinting. The grain bill and yeast look good. Most of my research shows the amount of peel is probably right. I would be very interested in knowing how it turns out.

Are you pressing the "set" key to move through the time set choices?

Usually when I rack to a secondary it is barely big enough to hold the beer. 5 gallons into a 5 gallon carboy. After racking the beer either outgasses or a small fermentation fires up filling the headspace with co2. I can then store it for as long as I like in the dark. Could be just me, but it...

Check this out "http://brulosophy.com/lager-method"

Awsome! 2 of your first 5 brews were a success! Here is what I learned. Check this out if your bottles have a longer shoulder under the crown like the IPA pic, you can easily cap with a wing capper. If it's short like the Angkor pic you will have to be more careful and check for leaks. Most of...

Buy "The joy of homebrewing" by Charlie Papazian. It will help a lot! Relax have a homebrew. I would leave that beer in bottles at room temp 68 to 72 for another couple weeks before giving up on it. YMMV. Brew on TBT!

I use a child's 0° sleeping bag that my son outgrew. Works great on my 13gal kettle!

Cardboard taste is usually caused by oxidation. Having a girlfriend that wants to help is a gem, so tread lightly. When you say she dumped the spent grains etc in the fermenter, do you mean kettle trub or she dumped the whole mash in? Bottle conditioning can do miraculous things, and if I were...

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I also have had good experiences with US-05 & Nottingham. Just rehydrate as per instructions and pitch. I have washed both of those and gotten 4 5 gal batches with each. The only complaint I have with 05 is when I fermented at 63f it had really heavy esters.

Thanks for the info guys

I just did a blonde ale split batch US05 and Notty. 63 degrees ferment temp and th 05 has very strong esters. Have used it before around 68 and the esters were very pleasant. I will be staying in the high 60's from now on. Leaving it in secondary for a few weeks at 68 hoping itll clean up.

Thanks for the reply Grognerd After further reading it appears this hybrid yeast will do fine either way. You can lager or secondary in the high 50's. Experiment time!

First post been trolling awhile. Planning my first batch with a lager yeast. It will be an ale and uses lager yeast like a CA Common. I have a ferment chamber and have no problem controlling temp during my primary ferment. Its after primary that im not sure of. Should I do a d-rest and cold...