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Yes, the longer you boil the hops, the more bitter the beer becomes, and vice versa. And to an extent, a middle ground will offer both. The closer to flameout you add the hops, the less bitterness you get and the more aroma. Hops have acids and oils. The boil time determines the...

Doubling might be overkill, especially for a wheat. You could add another ounce @ 30 min. You could also boil them longer, use more water (if a 2.5gal boil), use a hop with a higher alpha acid, or even do a late extract addition to get more IBU's I think going from 2 oz to 4 oz is going to be...

I have a citrus hefe in the primary right now. OG was 1.050, and I used WLP320 yeast. I am fermenting at 68* consistant and have a blowoff tube hooked up. However, I checked daily, and never got more than 1/4" of krausen on top (didn't open the lid, checked the sides). The airlock was...

My opinion, brew with what you got. I just got into brewing not to long ago, and yeast can impact the flavors in soo many ways. Another yeast may make it taste better (at least to what you like), but for a first brew, I'd keep it simple, and wait to start picking yeast based on the flavor...

That what I figured. I wasn't worrying too much, just deciding if I should be more expectant of an infection more so than I normally am. :D

So I brewed a hefe style beer and added some orange zest. One little problem. I forgot to add it at flameout, so I threw it in when the wort was cooling down at around 160*. So, is that bad? Should I be worried about infection? Just curious. What's done is done, but I'd like to...

Opinions. :mug: I'm not denying he has great selection, and some prices are lower than LHB, but I got some shotty service the only time I was at the Lancaster store. Never went back after. I might have to try the York store sometime though. Sounds pretty good to me! :ban:

:D Hey, beer and food. I'm game. Depending on how many might want to come, my place might work fine. 2 of the neighbors on my street also home brew, so I' sure they'd bring some brews over and join in. If not, there are a few parks I can think of (Chickies Rock is nearby to me and I...

Nice, thanks for all the info! Very good to know! Thanks!

Welcome! I'm from Lanco as well, Marietta to be exact. Lancaster Homebrew is a great store. Mark is great, tries to know all this regulars and semi-regulars (like me). I will say, homebrewing is like crack, you WILL get hooked. I bought all my equipment and made a batch, fully...

So I just got some hops rhizomes and plan on planting them in the next few days. They're sitting moist in plastic bags for now. I had a few questions. 1.) I plan on growing them next to my house. However, the space I have on the sunniest wall is limited by a 2nd floor eave about 12' up. I...

I have a vial of White Labs 320 American Hefe yeast. It's supposed be less banana/clove nosed than the 300. However, after talking to SWMBO and my sister (both of whom I'm making the brew for), they want some citrus. So I'm going to add the zest of 3-5 oranges at flameout. Anyone use the...

I actually got out to the store, and completely didn't think about how I went from a hefe to a wit, and got the 320. I think I may just leave out the orange for this brew since I did get a hefe yeast and just go with the victory adding some flavor. Then again, I may try a hefe with the...

Sweet. I'll prob go the KISS route and leave the coriander out and make it more a citrus wit. Here's a question before I go out and buy everything: Since I'll have the victory grains giving that bread/nutty/biscuit type taste, as well as the citrus in it, should I go with something like...

So I've been thinking of making a wit/hefe style beer, and put together my own simple recipie. Should I got for it? -7lbs fresh Wheat LME -.5lbs munich -.5lbs crystal 20L -.5lbs victory -1oz tettnang @60 -.5oz hallertau @30 -.5oz hallertau @flameout -zest of 3 oranges, 1 lemon, 1 lime...

Do you know the BTU's on your stove? Or a model number to look it up? I used to have a 4 gal pot that I'd boil for crabs, and my stove wouldn't handle it. Then I used some exhaust header wrap and wrapped my pot. That worked miracles, got all 4 gallons to a rolling boil in about 40min when I...

Well, brought the temp of the room up to around 70 after checking the gravity middday yesterday. Checked it midday today, and it remained the same. So I bottled. Looks and tastes pretty good for the problems I had with it. But I did make one screw up. I bottled half as the recipe I originally...

Well thats promising. Anyone else want to help reassure me too? :D The more people saying that FG is fine the better I'll feel. Also, concerns about the spoon and condensation on the lid?

I brewed my own recipe, a sweet cream stout. Ingredients: -7lbs dark LME -1lbs dark DME -8oz dark crystal malt 60l -8oz chocolate malt -8oz roasted non-malted black barley -8oz black patent -12 oz maltodextrin -1lbs lactose -2oz perle hops -White Labs London Ale yeast I brewed...

Another question. How much would 1/2 of maltodextrin and 1lb of lactose raise my FG? Judging by the ingredients, I should be looking at around 1.074 for my OG, and knowing how much unfermentables there are, I know my FG will be a lot higher than my IPA and whtnot, I'm just trying to figure...