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oh, and I used a whole cup of sugar at the end of my boil. it's gonna border on barleywine :D

actually I had 12.5 lb's of LME :D it's def going to be a man's beer. I put only 1.66 oz of the CHinook for bittering, and the whole oz of yakima Perle with 12 minutes or so left in the boil. Wort is cooling now. I will have to add water until it gets close to 1.090 or so, or I am...

It is going to be awesome. I used a ton of steeping grains, and it already looks like I added 4 lbs of malt extract... I have like 10 lbs of lme to add. I have 4 oz of hops, and 2 of them are Chinook (12%), and one is yakima perle (7.6 %) It's gonna be CRISP!! I don't think Ill add any...

just bought the ingredients. Its going to be huge, baby. 7.25% or more ABV, like 2.5 oz or more of hops in the mix... It's going to bite the toungue, and be as crisp as you can imagine. I am not such a hop AROMA fan, so I might just boil the aroma and finishing hops for the whole hour...

I know this beer is held in pretty low esteem among connoisseurs, but I'd really like to make a batch sort of like this. Sort of biting fresh, with a dry bitterness, and it tastes good ICE cold. I have several batches of mouthfilling, flavorful beer sitting around, now I want something that...

wow, it was the most active fermentation I've ever witnessed. my airlock was in a rolling boil for like a day and a half. now (3rd day in fermenter I am getting one little glurk every 20 -30 seconds). My koelsh yeast slowly bubbled away for like 10 days, but this whitelabs Hefeweizen IV...

Here is my input. I did a late extract addition. I boiled the inital mash (I steeped some grain) and hops for 30 minutes, and then at the 30 minute mark added the LME. It took quite a bit of stirring to get it to dissolve completely, but anyway. I am a little nervous becasue it took like...

Brewing German Hefeweizen! (or did last night anyway...)

Well, almost all of the Kolsh is just sitting around. It does taste much better now after a week and a half in the bottles. I will see if I can stretch this batch a little. It now tastes and looks like BJ's Brewhouse's Brewhouse Blonde I am brewing a hefeweizen tonight, so I'll have two...

I have Hoptech's kit, and I am real happy with it. hoptech.com

ttt for rubarbs avatar!!! why don't you have a bigger version of that in your gallery??? :D j/k

I actually feel that every bottle is a little different. I consumed 2 bottles (grolsh bottles :D ) of the last beer I brewed (a Kolsh) about 1 week and 1 week and 2 days after bottling. the first actually was a lot more carbonated than the second. I really made an effort to stir up the primed...

Liquid ME. It feels like I am more of an involved brewer when I steep the grains! lol I know it's all perception. The "late boil" sounds intriguing. So just boil the hops in 3 gals (I am doing partial boil) for 45 minutes, add the LME, boil another 15 and cool? I don't have any aroma...

oh... 6 lbs. wheat malt extract 1/2 lb. wheat malt grain 1/2 lb. six-row pale malt 1/4 lb. cara-pils malt 1 oz. Hallertauer hops (bittering 60 minutes of boil)) 3/4 cup corn sugar for priming White Labs liquid Hefeweizen Yeast 1 pkg. Bru-Vigor (yeast food) O.G. - 1.046 -- F. G. - 1.011

With Whitelabs Hefeweizen IV yeast. Will be brewing it tonight if I am not too tired. Any suggestions, or potential pitfalls? Thanks!!!

Tried a Kolsh. I just bottled and drank a small amount I couldn't get out of my bottling bucket, and while it tastes "ok," it doesn't blow me away like my 1st effort ("lager a like") did. The beer smells a little like trub, and a little like beer. It's cloudy too. hopefully it'll get...

I have decided against secodary fermentation. I am waiting for my airlock to stop bubbling (been 9 days now!) and bottle. spoke with some locals, and they all say secondary is overrated. thanks for the input.

I moved my fermenting bucket around a little to do the FG test, and after reading a FG of like 1.016, I set the bucket back into the tub of water. I peeked in through the airlock hole, and the Krausen has not yet settled back into the liquid. Anyway, even though thought I had avoided all...

^ that's something i'd never heard before.... makes me glad I asked. makes me wonder a litttle about the storebought or ballpark beer in plastic bottles. I was just thinking of getting the beer off the yeast cake, and letting the crap settle out of it a little while longer. maybe 4-5 days...

My second brew, a Kolsh, has successfully finished primary fermentation, and I am toying with the idea of using my bottling bucket as a secondary. I know people say that buckets don't make good secondaries because of the headspace in them, so my plan is to boil up a little water + sugar and...