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I was just pondering the subject because i decided try this out with a 1/2 gallon growler, a filtered aeration system, a quart of wort, and two pretty old smack packs of Wyest california lager yeast. I started a batch of organic lager, got the wort good and ready, but my smack packs...

I used 6# of 60/40 wheat/ malt liquid extract, 1# of briess dark dme, 1 oz German Hersbrucker pellet hops, wyeast german wheat 3333 & a safale wb 06 (cuz the smack pack took a long time to swell), for a five gallon batch. I used irish moss and racked to a secondary after 3 days, with the temp...

I've tasted several home-brewed wheat beers, including the batch in my secondary, as well as wheat beer from a local microbrewery, and they all have the same off flavor. I want to make wheat beer that is just as tasty as O'dell's Easy Street Wheat or New Belgium's Sunshine Wheat, Widmer's...

Thank you all, very VERY much! I luaghed, I cried, I yawned(justkidding), and most importantly, I understood. Thank you ALL so much for elucidating the topic! I love you all for your responses, the honesty, the hilarity, the analogies, and all the different views. Truly. TRULY! I work a very...

I may have missed something obvious, but why exactly is the all-grain method perferred by so many?

i was also wondering about the effects of excessive exposure to light, as well as the presence of trub, in regards to off flavors in the next batch. I haven't quite mastered the art of eliminating the hot break from my wort, and the carboy & yeast had sat sealed with an airlock, but uncovered...

good to know, and thanks.

thanks, a bunch!

Thank You, Thank You!

Tha bottom of my secondary fermentor from a batch of dry irish stout. I'm a bit worried, if it is actually useable, that the light might have messed with the yeast... thanks a bunch! Homebrewing Rocks!