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Malt Extract Beer Recipe Kits | MoreBeer If I don't buy locally, I buy here. I can't speak to their kits because I'm hardheaded and insist on creating my own recipes but they have fair prices and will probably give you a (10% ish) discount if you time it right or just sign up for their mailing...

I’m aware that this is an old thread but as a tool and die maker turned cnc machinist, this idea has my attention and I’d like to know how it went/is going. …so how’d it work out?

64.4°F to 78.8°F according to the fermentis website. So around 71° ish F(20°C)? Someone with more experience may be able to weigh in with specifics based on that experience (I have never used safeale us05) but I would start around there if I were you. Most yeast companies will have all the...

Really? I was just being silly… That’s an unexpected combination… Now I kinda want to try it.

I briefly considered a raspberry dubbel but I don’t think that would be very palatable. I figured since the kids nowadays are putting fruit in their wheat beer, it would be the whole 2 birds/one stone thing. Boy was I wrong. So grenadine in witbier = bad idea. Got it. Pomegranate chocolate...

A small amount of research has shown that you are indeed correct. I went down a whole Belgian rabbit hole a while back and got some wires crossed as far as ingredients go. I’m glad you mentioned that, thanks for saving my future witbier!

I meant Belgian witbier (hoegaarden etc) I may have somehow got it in my head that wits use candy sugar and been wrong (wouldn’t be the first time I was wrong about anything) This is just weird because I was pretty sure it was an ingredient in witbier (along with patersbier, dubbels, trippels...

“Flavored” as in raspberry, strawberry etc. not sure what all of the options are, really. It just seemed like a possibility. I have seen hoegaarten clones that call for candi sugar …I think…

Refractometer after mash because of ATC and small sample size cools super quick Both hydrometer and refractometer before pitching yeast/after cooled for OG (to compare readings) Refractometer during fermentation because I'd rather waste a few drops than a full graduated cylinder of beer every...

what kind of yeast are you using?

I'm kicking around a witbier for summer (trying to plan ahead or whatever) and I was trying to source some ingredients locally because its easier to slip an ingredient here and there into the grocery pickup than to justify ordering stuff and paying shipping etc... anyway... While looking on...

I really like the idea of “test beers” …ooh! And I can probably work a few more in there for “research purposes” too.

I was counting 2 weeks for carbonation in there too… So I should carb for 2 weeks and let it condition for another two ( as opposed to the four I had planned)? I was kind of just making it up as I go and a month just sounded good. … but drinking beer two weeks earlier sounds even gooder.

My daughter and I bottled up 30 bottles last night. It would have been 32 but she broke one (oops) and I may or may not have drank one flat… I’m just in the waiting phase now. 6 weeks and I’ll be drinking it. We’re going to do a porter probably a day or so after Christmas.

I have no intention of trying for 100% bhe ..it was a feeble attempt at humor I was super stoked that I only overshot my pre boil gravity by .001 and it turns out that I misread my refractometer on my OG (post boil ) though and I overshot that by .005 (I might have boiled a bit longer than I...

Well.. I’m still learning. …and the lady at the library seems like she may forgive me.

So I took a gravity reading last weekend (1.012 ish) and I’ll take another in a day or two. I’m pretty sure it’s done fermenting but we’ll see. I might be bottling this weekend (and potentially doing a porter) I think I may have boiled too long because I overshot my OG by.005 (and didn’t look...

Exactly. I ended up with like ten stitches in my forearm last year because I slapped a window to startle a coworker (stupid, I know). It didn’t do any serious harm but it was pretty close to it, I got lucky…or less unlucky? Anyway, I take glass stuff pretty seriously now.

Glass scares the crap out of me and I’m not fond of anything that’s difficult to clean so glass carboys or even plastic ones with the narrow mouth are nope in my book.

If you’re making smaller batches and have a drill, you can have a new 5 gallon fermenter for like $7…$5 if you already have a lid. I went to copy the link and realized that I completely misspoke. It is a 3 gallon fermonster. My apologies. Fermzilla is nice as well but a bit more pricey.