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I'm not saying you should limit yourself to a kit but try one of these: https://www.austinhomebrew.com/Hoegaarden-White-Ale-16A--EXTRACT_p_3352.html https://www.northernbrewer.com/gaarden-hoe-witbier If you have issues dialing in your own recipe it can be easy to get to a point where you've...

Not sure why but my message got added to the quote. Incase you didn't see it: Try this: 9-10lb wheat dme, if you want a slightly dry beer but not "boozy" tasting you can sub maybe 1lb for corn sugar but I usually advise against it. 1/4 lb smoked cherry malt, a little goes a long way with...

Mind if I post a tweaked version of that recipe for you? Can keep it similar to what it sounds like you are going for but more palatable.

You shouldn't have any trouble as kettle coagulants (such as whirlfloc) act by using oppositely charged ions to bind with proteins on a molecular level which is much smaller then the holes in a bag like that. If you want to feel safe about it you can always toss your floc into the kettle outside...

If this helps, one of my favorite recipes i've ever brewed (and the one that even non-beer drinkers always love) is something like this: -100% Briess bavarian wheat DME -Add 10% of the dme pre boil -Cascade @ 60mins -floc + nutrient @ 10 mins -Cascade @ flame out, then-> -Remaining 90% of dme...

To really be a wheat ale I would suggest doing just that. If you use Briess bavarian wheat DME (for example) it's already 65% white wheat malt and the rest is 2 row (maybe 1% carapils) so if you use 100% briess bavarian wheat dme then your "Grain bill" is 65% wheat which would constitute a...

Also, if you are looking at the color in a large volume (like a carboy for example) it will be considerably darker then a smaller volume in a pint glass. If you boiled all of the extract that contributes to darkening. Next time steep the smoked malt then add maybe 1lb of the Pilsen dme pre boil...

@TANSTAAFB see the thing is byo and zymurgy are geared more toward homebrewers and most professional brewers started as homebrewers. This leads many professional brewers to approach brewing like they are in their garage with a 5 gal pot. I actually started brewing professionally before I...

You get a lb of Cascade at a lhbs for $8 retail yet my wholesale supplier for my brewery just told me that I can't get any Cascade hops for several weeks on a wholesale/commercial scale... Ugh. Worst part is all 3 of my core beers in my portfolio use Cascade at some point. For your question: I...

I was cleaning out some old stuff from when my brewery was still in testing phase and ended up making a 5 gal "left overs" batch also. Had some steeped honey malt, c60, c90, and briess black, then a mix of briess Pilsen light, golden light, and muntons extra light dme all added at flame out. I...

First off, swap the Amber dme for light (muntons, nb, etc)/golden light (briess). It will still give a malty flavor from your primary fermentable and you won't lose a terrible amount of color but those Amber extracts usually use grains like Munich and/or darker crystal/caramel malts which can...

Something else that is worth noting: I've used s-04 most extensively however I've done similar tests, with basically the same results, with s-05, notty, bry97, London esb, and ec1118 dry yeasts.

I'm usually using s-04 English (even for my "American" beers) and most of the time ferment at 66f. Now 04 runs hot for the first two days so if I have a carboy in a temp controlled fridge at 66f the actual liquid temp is usually 70f for the first day, 68f for the second day, then 66f until I...

In my brewery I've done extensive testing on pitching dry vs rehydrating (including various methods of rehydrating including using additives such as yeast extract, yeast hulls, etc) with results verified by an external Lab. I've consistently found that rehydrating actually does very little in...

I also recently started playing with extract + steeping grains for fun again after several years of just all grain. It feels weird knocking out a batch in 2~ hrs start to finish instead of 4-6~ hrs though. Not a bad thing though. I actually hold 90% of my total DME until flame out and only...

Great, thanks! I'll give that a shot

Thank you for your prompt response @Yooper I have exactly 5 gallons going into the FV based off of a marker I made on the carboy verified by a flow gauge. At most I may be a few fl oz over if I look away. Regardless, my grav reading is taken from a kettle sample not out of the FV so...

I want to start this off by saying that I feel really stupid for having to post this. I have been a professional brewer for 6 years and jumped straight into all grain professional brewing before I ever homebrewed one time. I have no problem producing awesome all grain beers, nailing my...

A standard bottling wand fits snugly up into the spout on the mr beer "barrel" which takes it from a mediocre fermenter to a stellar bottling bucket