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I brewed my 3rd hefeweizen a little while ago and bottled it recently. Compared to my other hefeweizens, this one is very light colored. Others have had a little orange tinge to them and this one was light yellow. It also feels really "thin" when you drink it and doesn't have as strong of a...

One question for you. Does the ml include the water sitting above the yeast? or does that assume I have decanted all/most of the water? /edit never mind... i should read more better!

Nice... I didn't spell it out, but I was thinking along the same lines. This helps a ton having someone else spell it out for me.

I have a jar of washed WL300 yeast sitting in my fridge from the end of November 2011. Mr. Malty puts the viability at 10%. There is almost no "non-yeast" material in the jar and it is very thick (except for the water above it of course). To get my target yeast count of 140 billion cells (I...

I had a similar conversation with my brother-in-law about "the cost of my time". We were actually talking about me finishing my basement, but the concept still applies. His argument was that I had to factor in X dollars an hour that I spent working on the basement. I agree there is an...

When calculating your expected gravity, did you use the same efficiency percentage for both beers? I believe that with bigger beers, you should expect an efficiency drop. I know that was my experience on my system. I usually get 78% - 80% and my one and only "big beer" was at 65%.

unless you are getting some other economic value (good feelings etc.), you shouldn't buy stuff just because it is local. That beings said.... the local producers have an advantage because their products are generally "fresher" or do not require preservatives (or as much). An example as it...

My next one....

You need to do a business plan. I live in Monument and there is a homebrew place here... which would be less than 45 minutes away (depending on where you live in Rastle Cock). Frankly... the one in Monument isn't very good and they mostly are focusing on wine (and are actually opening a...

Did every bottle 'splode? Reason I ask is that I had a similar issue with a hefeweizen and the bottle was either exploding when opened or flat. Turns out that my priming sugar did not get mixed well into the bottling bucket (had a nylon bag over the end to catch peach junk) leaving a few...

I bottled this last night. Thanks to AZ_IPA for the recipe help! This came out spot on (well, as spot on as warm, flat beer can be). I do think that this will be a little high on the ABV though. Brewtarget had and OG of 1.049 @ 70% efficiency and that included the gravity points from the...

I don't care if I disturb the yeast a bit.... I have to move the fermenter to the kitchen for racking into the bottling bucket, which disturbs the yeast a bit just from moving it. I just plan ahead and move it to the kitchen an hour ahead of time so it has time to settle the yeast before racking.

my bad. For some reason I was thinking that if his beer was sitting at 40 degrees after cold crashing and he was using the calculation for 70 degrees... he would be adding too much and the trapped CO2 from the cold crash was contributing to the excess carbonation.

Just noticed this.... If you use the tasty brew calculator to figure the amount of priming sugar, and plug in 1.9 for you CO2 volume, 1 gallon for your batch size and only change the temperature variable.... 70 degrees = .6 oz of corn sugar 40 degrees = .2 oz of corn sugar are you...

It seems to me that you would add your sugar contribution to your final gravity (1.018), let it finish eating the berries and take another reading. This ABV would be added to your original ABV. Your way would work, but doesn't account for anything like the yeast not eating all of the sugar you...

Do you have any way of splitting the batch? My last hefe was split into two batches... one bottled right away, the other racked onto peaches for another couple weeks. I supposed you could siphon off half into your bottling bucket and dump whatever flavoring you want into the remainder of the...

Before you do any gas plumbing... have you sized your system to make sure it can support what you are putting in? Here is a chart if you haven't done this already

44 point per pound per gallon = 6.6 points. (44/5) * .75 So, it should go to 1.0606 according to my math. /edit this doesn't take into account the extra 6 cups of water you added.... so really it is (44/5.375) * .75 = 6.1 points... if you want to get precise about it.

maybe I am not understanding, but shouldn't you plug your refrigerator into the digital controller, then set you temp on the digital controller to 65? When the controller senses the temp of your bucket is getting too high, it will turn on the fridge. I would set the fridge temp down lower than...

This doesn't contribute anything .. But I would like to know how you can forget about a fermenting beer for 9 months.