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Nottingham definitely clears up the longer it's in the bottle. My American wheat clears after roughly two months regardless of how cloudy it was at bottling. As for temp: I do my Nottingham American wheat at 62°F and that seems to be the sweet spot for a very clean fermentation with very slight...

Collecting up the remaining bottles of the Simcoe wheat beer I made for my unit. It was a big hit and they killed 15 of the 18 cases we brewed. Always nice to get a couple hundred non-craft beer drinkers talking about the great tasty beer. Plus I've got some leftover for the next few weeks here...

OK, full disclosure: ever since I switched to All-Grain a few years ago I've been had a snobbish mindset about it. Although I would never, EVER, talk down to a fellow brewer about their choice of process for making beer, in the back of my head I've consistently thought of extract brews as...

+6 gallons Texan Punk Monk =3,434 gallons

Tomorrow marks the beginning of IPA season. Got a 12 gallon batch of Texan Punk Monk all lined up, this year with some Vic's Secret as the dry hop addition. Excited.

The biggest issue I can foresee is your water: grain ratio in the mash. For example: when I do a 5.5 gallon batch in my 20 gallon mash tun I end up using a 1.5 quart of water per pound of grain ratio at a minimum, usually closer to 1.75:1 just to get enough water to cover the grain. With a 50...

Another vote for Nottingham. It literally sticks to the bottom of the bottle.

2702.5 + 6G Left Hand Milk Stout clone = 2708.5

Just finished up a Left Hand Milk Stout clone and Fulton's Imperial Red on a double brew day. Just shy of the gravity numbers on both but had a lot of extra wort so... More beer.

I've been brewing for eight years now and the attention to detail, measuring, and desire for a little bit superior product or process has seeped into a couple of other parts of my life. Coffee. I started doing pour over coffee and the next thing I know I'm on YouTube looking up process videos...

For those using a bag in the mash tun: get a ratcheting pulley to get the bag out. Grain gets to drip dry (lighter bag!) And pulls the grain off the bottom (faster sparge!) And you can squeeze the dickens out of it (higher efficiency!) I love my ratchet!

I agree with you. I use my slurry mostly for the same beer. I wash the yeast if I intend to use it for a different style.

I just used a week old slurry of Nottingham that I decanted. Within 36 hours I had a nice krausen forming. A little slower than a fresh packet of yeast but far more viable yeast cells. I initially had a quart of slurry. After a week of resting and decanting I had a little over a pint of slurry...

24 more gallons of American wheat. 2314

Good brew session making 12 gallons of Red Stripe Clone. It was quite cold outside but had only recently dropped in temp so I assumed that the house faucet would still function for cooling the wort. It didn't. 6 hours later after sitting in 17°F the wort was cool enough to transfer to the...

Going to be a bit thin for an RIS, but I just had left hand's wake up dead, and despite being thin it is quite delicious. Good luck with your beer.

You put your sugar addition in a little later than I do for your late addition, but that's not necessarily bad. I try to add my sugar right at or shortly after peak fermentation. I try to make sure that the yeast are all fired up for a big sugar meal. The fact that your fermentation kicked right...

I also experienced the joy of a tight grind. I also experienced overshooting my OG by quite a bit as a result. I use a 2 Roller Monster Mill set to 0.022 on my mash in a bag setup. I had recently changed the gap tighter, was using a low speed drill instead of a high speed drill, and was doing a...

I had a similar "high gravity" experience with mine. I did an overnight mash and got much higher efficiency (over 82%) than expected (65%). The result was that my OG before I added the sugar was the target OG for the whole recipe. So I added the sugar at high krausen anyway, because imperial...

That tiny amount of carahell added a ton of flavor. This came out pleasantly malty despite low mash temps and hitting the target final gravity. Great beer and glad I made 12 gallons.