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I'm brewing a Wit with this yeast right now. Currently at about the 72 hour mark and I am getting a peppery, pineapple aroma off the sample glass I pulled for taking hydro readings. I am fermenting in the 72-74*f area. Here is the recipe I used 5.5 lbs German Pilsen Malt 1.0 lbs White...

Saturday I brewed a Wit with Safbrew T-58. Fermentation took off within a couple of hours after pitching the yeast, but at about the 48 hour mark, it seems to have completely stopped. Can anyone tell me if this type of fast fermentation is common with T-58? If you are wondering, I pitched...

Quick Question. I don't use a secondary and I bottle instead of keg. Will one of the following work for the 2nd coriander addition? 1. Add it to the bottom of the bottling bucket, fill on top of it. 2. Boil it for a few minutes with the priming sugar, add the mixture to the bottling...

The Centennial I have is rated at 9.0%. Using Tastybrew, I get 26 IBU's from the hops. If a late HME addition gets me somewhere between 15-25 more, I'll be about where I want to. Cheers! Kevin

My wife bought be a 5 gallon setup for Christmas, so I can finally step up from the Mr. Beer fermenter. The LHBS tossed in a Munton's Dockland Porter extract kit. I don't really want to do a straight HME kit, but I don't want it to go to waste either. I was thinking of steeping a couple...

@DrinkNoH2O: I've read here that there is very little different between corn sugar and table sugar. I was out of corn sugar and didn't want to make a special trip. I wanted to guarantee equal distribution, so I primed the bottles. @IceFisherChris: Wow, that is a lot of pressure. That definitely...

@Tipsy & bradsul: Thanks for the quick replies. They went into a 40 gallon Hefty trashbag as soon as I bottled them. They are amber, long-neck PET bottles; A&W root beer bottles to be exact. I used them because this was my first time brewing with a liquid yeast starter. I had read that Wyeast...

After two weeks in primary, I hit my marks and bottled my Belgian IPA. The is my first time using plastic bottles, so I don't know if I should be concerned or not. I primed the bottles directly as per a thread on this site; 1 1/4 tsp cane sugar per 20oz bottle. The bottles are conditioning in...

Bob: I have never used Special B before. I have heard that it is similar to Crystal, but with a raison-ish flavor. Is there a rule of thumb for ratio when using Special B instead of Crystal? I assumed 1:1 in my recipe above. Cheers! Kevin

I am looking for some advice on a 2 gallon mini-mash clone of Avery's New World Porter. Using the grains listed on their site, I came up with the following: (50% Efficiency) OG: 1.056 FG: 1.014 IBU: 42 SRM: 40 Boil Volume: 1.25 gallons Batch Size: 2.13 gallons Yeast: Nottingham...

Can anyone who bottled this beer outline the process they used? I will be brewing this soon and my plan was 2 weeks in primary @ 65, 2 weeks primed and bottled @ 65 to carb and then crash it. Is this correct, or should I use some other method? Cheers! Kevin

BrewDey: I have another question for you. I just converted your recipe down to a 2.13 gallon batch. I'm hitting close to your gravity numbers, but the SRM is coming out at 6. Is there another ingredient that isn't listed? Also, I had to select cane sugar since the calculator doesn't have...

BrewDey: Thanks for the recipe. Yes, I am doing an extract batch, but the calculator wants to know if the 1.5lbs of grains are steeped or mashed. It does make a few tenths of a percent difference in the ABV depending on which I pick. The recipe I listed about is calculated with the grains set to...

Can you post the Ruth recipe? Cheers! Kevin

Time for my next question. I am 5 day into fermentation of my Belgian IPA. There is some krausen stuck to the sides of the fermenter, but nothing on the surface of the beer. There is a huge amount of sediment in the bottom of the tank (the red line), enough the the spout is completely...

Thanks for the reply. I am pretty new to this, so I may not be understanding this right. According to the malt chart on this site's wiki, Special B is a Crystal Malt and can be steeped without adding extra protein. Aromatic does require a mash, but the wiki says that it has enough diastatic...

I am about a week away from bottling my first batch of homebrew; a Belgian IPA. I am going to wash the yeast and use it to start my next beer. I want to do a Belgian Stout, something like Avery's Mephistopheles. They list the grain bill on their website, so I have something to work with...

I just brewed my first extract batch in my Mr. Beer kit this last weekend; a Belgian IPA. I used Wyeast's 1388 Belgian Strong Ale yeast. My first question is whether or not my yeast is behaving correctly. At the recommendation of the guy who runs the homebrew shop, I pitched the entire...