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With the ambient temperature in my house being around 65-75 (Haven't turned on the AC yet) I purchased a freezer and an STC-1000. It all seems to work fine if I want to maintain an air temperature in the freezer. I placed 5 gallons of warm water (75 degrees) inside and placed the probe...

So my hefe is 13 days in the bottle. It still has a slight twang to it. Not a vinegar sour but more like a orange peel bitter. I'm sure everyone here will tell me to "there are no shortcuts" or "try again in a week or two." So that's just what I'll do. Hypothetically, what effects do Brita...

I've brewed an extra kit hefeweizen...13 days in primary and 12 days in the bottle so far. It still has somewhat of a bitter finish so I'm assuming it just isn't done. I split 5 gallons in to two bottling buckets. In one, I primed 2.5 gallons with a little over 2.25oz of dextrose. In the other...

My first batch. It's an extract kit hefeweizen on day 14 of primary. All of the signs point to a finished fermentation with final gravity of 1.010. I'm thinking of racking tonight but I want to make sure I'm not, as one poster said, "brewing by a calendar" instead of brewing by the beer. So...

My extract kit hefeweizen included 5oz of corn sugar. For a 5 gallon batch at 68 degrees,is that enough? Tastybrew's calculator says that should give me a CO2 volume around 2.7ish. However, the same calculator (and many others) suggest 3.3 - 4.5. Even Palmer seems to suggest more than 5oz of...

As a first time brewer, I'm probably way more involved in the process than I should be. I want to measure / smell / taste / poke...my beer. Even with the possibility of contamination or oxidation, I think it's more important to really learn and understand the process than brewing a knock out...

Hi guys, First time brewer here. I'm sure you've answered most of my questions to no end. I've found some really great information in the stickys but I still have a few pressing questions. I'm brewing a Hefeweizen since I was told this is the easiest to start with and the hardest to...