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It had a fizzy crown at the top... it was the Wyeast Sweet Mead I was using, which may have a different pattern of activity. It now just has a little foamy head, maybe 3/4" at the top of the cider... I'm getting fizz, but it's now bubbling at about 1-2 seconds per bubble. I think it's just a...

I'd say maybe doing a liquor infusion of bacon or something might be a good way to get the "essence of meat" into the beer. I think the fat would get rancid over a fermentation, even if it weren't infected. I'll have to second (or third) the suggestion that this might not be so wise...

Wrong term, perhaps... big loose foaminess at the top, hitting the blowoff.

I know the American Wheat that NB sells spec's the US-05 for a dry alternative. I actually liked it way better with 05 than with the American Wheat from Wyeast... did one Honey wheat with 05, one honey wheat with the wyeast.

I wouldn't have figure on it for a wheat beer yeast, at least not something belgian or hefe... too clean/straight in character. Interesting.

Yeah, the whole idea of the steeped grains was possibly some flavor, but mainly the mouthfeel and head retention from the carapils/carafoam. I'm thinking unless it makes a HUGE difference in color, I'm going to just do it with LME, and boil for 60... calculating the IBUs with split late...

I'm kind of flying blind here, but I've got 5 gallons of fresh pressed cider (UV treated at the local cider mill, no preservatives) fermenting on Wyeast's Sweet Mead yeast strain. No added octane from concentrate or anything like it, not adding any other juices or flavors or similar. What...

The cider is Krausening... the beer is still giving the odd slow bubble. Looks like all's well.

Ok. Am thoroughly schooled :) I'd been using the numbers from the Northern Brewer spec sheets, which seemed to show 64-75... my bad.

I thought the low end was 64 degrees for s-05 and s-04... where are folks getting the 59 degree figure??

I've been putting a little space heater on the cider from time to time to hopefully get it cranking, as it was showing no activity after two days and the cider itself was quite chilled when I pitched the yeast... it seems to be getting a bit foamy now. I'm concerned as to whether I need some...

I've got a carboy of Cider with Wyeast sweet mead, and three fermenters going now... two with S-05, and one with S-04. The problem is that our house was quite cool over the weekend, with a power outage knocking the heat out (went down below 60) and our night-time temps are around 62 on the...

Another new one... I'm not sure whether it's too photo-ey, but I just loved the underlying pic:

it definitely changes the IBU when you change the boil time, boil volume, and gravity... I was figuring it would work. I guess I'll just take it on the chin, do a 60 minute boil, add the DME or LME at the tail-end and take what comes :)

homebrew calculus puts it at 25 IBUs, which is in spec for the style at 0.47 BU:GU. I wasn't certain though whether you really need the full sixty minute boil to get everything out of it that you would like. Also, the calc doesn't seem to change color at all based on a late addition versus a...

Homebrew calculus is not correct on those numbers, then?

So, I'm trying as an experiment to figure out whether I can make a very pale beer that will appeal to my in-laws and Coors drinking acquaintances, while still having some personality... This is going to be a full boil, starting with a hair over 5.5 gallons, give or take. So, this is the...

interesting. so, no need to really get the wort back to a boil after that last LME addition??

I was planning on doing an extra pale ale... Ballparking on the figures on this, but thinking of possibly using that super San Diego White Labs yeast, 6 pounds of pilsen LME, steeping a half-pound or so of carapils for head and some body/mouthfeel, and enough hop additions to just give it a...

So, if you are working on late additions of DME or LME at the 15 minute mark, how do you approximate how the hops will be utilized? Brew calculus doesn't differentiate between 0 minute additions as "late" versus 15 minute boils as "late." The best I can think of is just running the numbers...