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All - My wife's grandmother was bohemian and czech and just recently passed away. She loved beer and often talked about the bohemian beers she would drink when she was younger. I want to make a batch of some type of authentic bohemian/czech beer as a gift for the family and as my first...

I'm trying to get a few other friends into home brewing so we are brewing a batch tonight. I picked up a Brewer's Best Dunkelweizen kit (I am not past extract kits yet). Anyone have any advice with this kit? I did some searching here to try and find some advice about how to brew it, I know...

Funkswing, everyone else is giving me their opinion in a way that doesn't come across as condescending as your opinion is coming across. I apologize that I misread your first comments. Also, I didn't design a bad experiment, I didn't even design an experiment yet, this thread is asking for...

Please name this Life in a Northern Brown. Or is that too 80's???

In my opinion, bottling is hassle enough, especially when you first start out, no need to add complexity by having to add sugar to each bottle.

I may make a T-shirt that says that... that's a great line!

I'm in the same boat, and I think I'm going with a larger pot first, then getting my own immersion chiller, I've been borrowing my current one.

Thanks for the link! I'm listening now...

Starting to agree as well, each time I try to figure out how to split the methods amongst the batches it just becomes too different. Thinking now about doing just two batches, one with whirlfloc or irish moss, the other with gelatin. Then after those two batches, do two more with the agent...

I can take criticism fine, just surprised to such sarcasm in what I thought was a friendly forum. I did some searching though, and it looks like this is just your mode of communication, so thanks for your input.

I'm disappointed with the tone of your comment, funkswing. Everyone else on this forum has been polite and encouraging. Hopefully I've just read your comment wrong?

I'm going to search for that podcast, thanks! I thought about using only a single variable change between batches, but I don't want to brew too many of the same styles to settle this. I can do one with each clarifying agent, but then want to take a look at the methods too (whirlpool, cold...

Noted, thanks. I'll stick with whichever is cheaper at the LHBS when I go. This eliminates one method and makes things a bit easier.

I think that may be a separate experiment, as I want to focus solely on methods and agents that are focused on clarity. I think I'll stick to one of the above methods for all batches, include cold crashing on one of them, and then once the clarity is accounted for, re-do the experiment with...

This thread is continued here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/beer-clarity-experiment-206778/

This is a follow up to this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/methods-clearest-beer-205923/ I am going to brew three batches of Brewer's Best American Amber kit. I want to use different combinations of methods that are used to increase the clarity of the beer and compare the...

On another forum someone was asking about having a blow out setup instead of just a lid and an airlock to remove the foam during fermentation and whether that could add to clarity by not allowing that material to fall back into the beer. Another suggestion was to scrape that material off the...

Heh, your government or ours? Probably about the same! Spent some time in Brisbane, loved it, and miss having some XXXX on the beach...

This is the kind of experimentation that leads to secret recipes and a greater understanding of the brew process itself, instead of just mimicking recipes and ingredient sheets. I just jumped into this hobby and fully intend to have a few experiments going soon. Great read!

OK, I'm going to go crazy with this I think. I researched gelatin and whirlfloc and irish moss. Next weekend I intended to brew three batches, two american ambers and an IPA. I think I'm going to brew three batches of american amber and use three different combinations of the recommendations...