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This was a wheat beer made with a Kolsch yeast. It's been cold crashing for a few days. It might be hard to see but there is a lighter layer at the top. I know kolsch are top feeders and have low floculation so maybe it's just that?

I posted this on the beginners forum but nobody has responded. I thought I would try here. So I am getting a march pump sometime soon and I have been thinking about doing a type of RIMS setup (I guess you could call it that?) with my boil kettle and 10 gallon plastic mash tun. I was hoping to...

Nobody has an opinion on this? Is there something I'm just missing here because it seems like a great idea to me.

So I am getting a march pump sometime soon and I have been thinking about doing a type of RIMS setup with my boil kettle and 10 gallon plastic mash tun. I was hoping to get feedback on it. What I plan to try is to heat my strike water and then transfer it to my mash tun, then add in my grains...

Great! How much mango did you use?

Good idea, I might head to costco tonight!

Great, I will check it out! Yeah, a blowoff tube seems like a must have

Thanks for the info guys. So I guess even though I only have 6.5 gallon carboys, it won't be a big deal racking to secondary into another large carboy because there will be fermentation from the fruit. So I won't have to worry about oxidation from all the head space?

I would do something similar but I use a thermowell, meaning I can't use the large diameter blow off tube.

Awesome, thanks. Since I'll be doing this in a carboy, pureeing fresh (or frozen) fruit might be easier than just tossing in chopped fruit I think, right? I might try sticking with one fruit, you're right, one thing at a time. I was planning on just doing this in primary instead of racking to...

So a few weeks ago I made a wheat beer for the first time, and I'm going to bottle it this weekend, and I figured I would harvest the yeast and then make another batch of it on Sunday. This time, though, my fiancee suggested I add fruit to it. I'm thinking of adding peach and mango into the...

Thank you, margarita mix is terrible and when people put some sort of soda in it, I'm astonished. I like using agave nectar for my sugar component but it's gotta stay on the sour side with lots of lime juice. It's great. I never thought of kegging and carbing cocktails, I may have to add a...

I hadn't ever even really looked at them, I was going to buy it today. I was just going off of what the OP posted about popping it in the morning and making the starter in the evening. My bad

I usually do as gwaugh says let the starter go for 24 hours or so and then throw it in the fridge overnight. Do you have a stir plate? Sorry if this is a threadjack, but it just occurred to me that I have a question about starters as well. I plan on brewing this Sunday, and was going to make a...

Thanks all for the information! I was not preheating my cooler, but I figured since I hit the temperatures just fine at the start that it was fine. It makes sense that the cooler is absorbing the heat and the temps drop over time. Once they equilibrate I'm sure the temps would stay pretty well...

I have had a problem in the last two batches I've brewed with my mash tun not holding temps very well. I have a 10 gallon cooler that I bought from Home Depot and converted to a MLT. My normal process is to heat up strike water to temperature (the last beer was 163F to get to a final mash temp...

Nice, I won't if I could get two in mine...

Awesome, thanks guys, I will just move it as carefully as I can, or let it sit longer in the carboy and forego the cold crash. Did you have to make a collar for your chest freezer? I've been thinking about doing that to get multiple carboys in there at once.

I figured as much, but that kind of defeats the purpose of cold crashing, doesn't it? the yeast will be jostled up a bit. A little bit of jostling won't be bad though, I suppose.

I have a quick question about racking to bottling buckets. I have a new fermentation chamber (7cubic foot chest freezer) that is currently going through its maiden voyage, but I was wondering, when I cold crash it, how do I go about racking it to the bottling bucket from inside the fermentation...