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Great explanation, thank you very much.

Awesome advice. I'm definitely going to try racking onto the previous yeast cake. I am wary of flavor extracts, I think I will stick with whole fruit puree as much as possible. Thanks again!

Sorry, I meant I wait two weeks in primary before dry hopping. Yeah, I guess I've never really done a smaller beer (one that wasn't at least 7%) so a wheat beer would probably go much quicker, especially with a good starter. I've been thinking about getting rid of secondary altogether for...

Yeah, I was thinking of doing a mash out. Then, as I was typing it out, I realized it would end up being convoluted and it would just be easier to do two brew days. Thanks. 1 week does seem short though in primary. When I do like a dry hop, I usually wait at least two weeks. Is there a reason...

So I've decided to try and make a wheat beer, and my fiancee wants me to add some fruit (peach puree) to the wheat beer. I was thinking, why not just double the size of the batch to 10 gallons and have half go to secondary with the peach puree and the other half just leave in primary. My mash...

Okay great, so with a starter I should still continue to aerate. Thanks! Hmmm, now I'm confused again. This was my original thought as well. Why would aeration be needed if you're pitching enough healthy yeast?

Ah, thank you. I only read a few pages, I will go back and look. Thanks again.

What about a peach puree? I'm also trying to make a recipe now for a wheat beer for the fiancee with either peaches or mango. From what I gather, a puree would work well. If anything, you could just puree all your peaches in a blender or food processor and then bring it to boil to kill anything...

I had a question. Aeration usually is done to provide an environment that is suitable for the yeast to reproduce before moving on to fermentation. If doing a starter to get the numbers high enough, why would it be necessary to aerate using pure O2? That seems like complete overkill. Mixing...

I'm thinking of doing this recipe and adding peach or mango to the mix somehow. I've never done a beer with fruit. Would a puree be good to add to this after fermentation or maybe at flameout right after the boil?

What about using a thermowell?

I guess I'm confused on the difference you describe here. From the pictures in the other thread, it looks like the tubing he inserted into the picnic tap is the racking cane tubing and that goes through the stopper. What different tubing do you use?

Awesome, thanks for the link to that thread. That's an easy solution, picnic tap and racking cane it is.

Hi all, I've gone back and forth between bottling and kegging in my brewing experiences (having to switch back to bottling recently because of moving and not being able to take my old kegerator with me). The move gave me the excuse to now build a nice keezer for the apartment, so I will be...

That's probably it. Also, you do want to aerate your wort as much as you can before you add the yeast.

The Vertical Epic was only a one time thing as they made a different style every year. Sorry for the confusion. That recipe looks to be pretty awesome though, so I may have to try it out. I'm thinking about trying yours out too, maybe try to convert it to all-grain. Cheers!

You're right about the overall heat of jalapenos being higher, I guess the flavor of green or red chile to me makes more sense for a beer, and it can be more subtle. If you want a lot of heat, then jalapeno is definitely the way to go. I've been thinking about trying that vertical epic clone...

Sounds pretty tasty. Lighter beers with chile flavors aren't my bag but that sounds pretty good. If you like hot, maybe try Hatch chile rather than jalapenos. If you just want subtle chile flavor, I would suggest trying out a clone of Stone's 11.11.11 Vertical Epic. It's an amber Belgian style...

Great, thanks guys. That saves me from having to rack to secondary for my IPAs. I will try it out on my next batch!

As an aside question to this, when I make IPAs or wheat beers with fruit in them, I will rack to a secondary to dry hop or for the fruit additions. Is that completely necessary or can I do that in the primary? I would think that dry hopping might be doable in primary but I should probably rack...