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So here's a follow up... I bottled yesterday, and this beer is like freshly baked banana bread and murkier than any beer I've brewed before. Even after lagering for a month, and fining with gelatin it looks like muddy pond water. I'll crack a bottle open in a month's time and post another...

I am planning a Wee Heavy for next week and am deciding on which of these malts to use. I'd like to use Golden Promise, but I can't get any. Maris Otter is my next logical choice, but I want something a little less nutty. My last few brews have all used MO but they have all had a...

Good point. I guess I was just concerned that leaving the grain for too long at mashout temp might have some detrimental effect.

I realise this is an old thread but it fits in with my question: I plan on brewing a wee heavy and I want to boil the first runnings down to a thick syrup before adding it back to the rest of the wort for the main boil. The problem I have is that I only have 1 pot large enough to boil 2 gallons...

The FG ended up at 1.010, much lower than expected. I can only imagine I mashed at too low a temperature. That works out to almost 40% of the fermentation at diacetyl rest temperature. It's lagering now, hopefully the banana goes away. I'll know one way or another come October!

Hi all I am busy fermenting an Oktoberfest with WLP820 yeast. I have read all kinds of things about issues with this yeast, so I kept that in mind when brewing this batch. I made a large starter, and fermentation went along fine at 12degC/54degF. OG was 1.055, with estimated FG 1.015. I started...