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That is an interesting thought. Actually what I did was placed my kettle in a ice bath. Let it sit for a couple of hours. Then took a sample straight out of the valve on the kettle before transferring the rest to the carboy so I bet you are correct. Sitting a while probably cause the sugars to...

I am not including the syrup at all in this. The syrup doesn't go in for another couple days and I didn't include it in the ingredients for estimated OG.

So I brewed my second brew ever this weekend. It was a variation of SD_SLIM's Blood Orange Hefeweizen. I wanted the recipe to be a little milder in ABV than the original and I am using a 5 gallon carboy so I needed the first part to be 4 gallons in the carboy so adding the syrup would bring it...

Bottled this one up on Saturday. I grabbed a sample in the test jar while transferring to bottling bucket. FG down to 1.005. I could not believe how great this tasted straight out of the fermentor. I had a huge amount of trub. So much that I only ended up with 46 - 12 ounce bottles. I can't wait...

Going to brew a variation of this Saturday. I am lowering the fermentables a bit to lower the ABV to make this a wife brew. I am also making changes to make this a grapefruit heffy. My carboy is 5 gallons so I'm starting with 4 gallons and then adding the syrup to that for a total of 5 gallons...

Is it possible this brew is finished? It has been 8 days since pitching and hardly any airlock activity anymore. I don't have a thief to get a sample to check gravity. I guess I could use the racking cane and siphon off a little to check it. Or should I just wait til this weekend and take a...

Just started a gallon. This will be my first mead.

Let me fill you in a some details that I didn't already include. I am an electrical engineer with 20+ years of controls experience. The reason that the temperature probe is not attached to the carboy is because I am logging the chamber temperature throughout a fermentation cycle. My controller...

The yeast was SA-05. My controller is set to 68 degrees. I put thermometer on the carboy day before yesterday and it always shows 69 degrees. The temp controller is doing a good job regulating the temp in the fridge so I'm not worried about that. Knowing that the beer is staying about 1 degree...

I have 3333 for the second yeast. I don't have the 1007 and can't get it locally. Could I use Safbrew 06 for the first yeast?

I was anxious to get off work yesterday and see if those yeast were up to anything. I was surprised to see that after only 12 hours they had been busy. I didn't even rehydrate the yeast. Just pitched in the carboy and shook it up for a while and then back into the fridge. Does this pick look...

Well I finally got everything together and did this brew yesterday afternoon. I started later than I should have and the process took MUCH longer than I had initially thought. Overall things went smoother than I feared but I did have a couple of hickups along the way. Here is the recipe that I...

I have #6 of 2 row available. What if I did? #6 pale 2 row #1.5 flaked corn #1 flaked rice

This may seem like a dumb question but my hot liquor tank is a 5 gallon. Will I be able to get 7 gallons without have some additional sparge water ready? Also should I mash for 90 minutes?

So I have purchased all the equipment to do all grain brewing. I have done ALOT of reading and watching videos. I have a cooler mash setup consisting of two 5 gallon igloo coolers, a false bottom for the mash tun, valves for both, an 8.5 gallon brew kettle with valve and thermometer, wort...

Thanks for the input. Do you have a link to the recipe?

I think this is the beer: http://www.schofferhofer.us/ From the site: "It’s a true 50/50 blend of total refreshment made from 50% Schofferhofer Hefeweizen blended with 50% carbonated juice of 100% natural ingredients."

I hadn't thought of carbonating the beer and then mixing. May have to give that a try.

I am wanting to brew a beer like the Grapefruit Hefeweizen at Epcot. My wife really likes it. I think from what I have read it is actually half hefeweizen and half grapefruit soda. My question is could I brew a hefeweizen and then mix the beer / soda in the bottling bucket. Then bottle...

First let me state that I am new to the home brew world so this question may be completely dumb. I am wanting to brew a beer like the Grapefruit/Hefeweizen that can be found at Epcot. After doing some research it appears that it is actually half beer and half grapefruit soda. So my question is...