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I am planning on making a stout, for which I would like to have some creaminess to it and also good head retention. I know that flaked barley and/or flaked oats are the way to go, but I can not seem to determine if I should use both or only one of them. J. Palmers book indicates that flaked...

Hello, I don't want to make a new topic as I have the exact same issue with my latest batch. 14 days ago I pitched in the yeast US-05. OG was 1044. Temp of fermentation in the start was 20 and now the beer sits at 18 C. After 9 days gravity was 1008, there was krausen and I threw in the dry...

The temperatures have been 21-22C with all batches. With exception for first two batches, where at the beginning of fermentation the temp got up to 26C. The US-05 started fermenting really violently, but the temp went down to 22C with half a day or so. I admit that for beeing such a newbie at...

I know that 2 week is a bit too soon, but batches before the final two tasted good already after one week in primary. So that got me thinking, what did I do wrong the last two times. One more thing - before I used Safale US-05, but for the last two ones I used S-04. They both fermented quickly...

Thanks for You answers. The percentage of the crystal malts was indeed way overshot with the first batch, but for the second one I kept it below 7% which should be fine, but still it was quite malty and had an off taste. Now the second batch has been sitting in fermentor for 2 weeks. Yesterday...

I have a question about the time which is reasonable to bring the wort to a boil after mash. Last two batches I have had 23 litres of wort before the boil and taking this amount of wort to boil takes 40 minutes with my equipment. Does anyone know if such a long period will have effect on the...

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Thanks for the quick tips guys! Adding Carapils sounds good, I'll try it next time. But for this batch there is probably nothing to do to get the sweetness out?

Usually I have kept the caramel malts down to 3-5% also, but I got some hints that for low ABV beers I should add more caramel malts to compensate for lower alcohol content and avoid watery taste. I don't know, I took the advice, maybe it was a mistake... I did not rehydrate, just pitched the...

This is my fourth all grain batch. Tried a low ABV IPA this time. Everything went smooth until I pitched the Safale S-04. It started to ferment quickly but fermentation was slow. Couple of bubbles after every 10 seconds and the krausen was quite thin. Now after 5 days sitting in the...