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Thanks guys! I'll relax a bit now.

Hi all, So I was attempting to brew the lemon lime hefeweizen recipe. It calls for the following additions of hops for a 6 gallon recipe: 0.25 Motueka Hops at 60 Minutes 0.25 Sorachi Ace 20 minutes 0.25 Motueka Hops 20 minutes 0.25 Sorachi Ace 7 Minutes However, I'm only brewing 3...

Thanks for your feedback everyone! I'll definitely go with option #2.

Hi all, A couple weeks ago, I attempted making the AG Lemon Lime Hefeweizen recipe, but made some mistakes along the way. When I steeped the grain, I did it at too low of a temperature. I did not sparge, and my resulting OG was a very low 1.20..I dumped that batch, and refined my technique by...

Thanks Aristotelian. Random question: I've read that topping off with cold water can throw off the hydrometer reading. Perhaps this is the problem? I just checked on the carboy, it is 12 hours into fermentation and it seems to be producing a healthy amount of bubbles. I wonder if the...

Hi Jwin, I did ag, and made sure to mill the grain before hand. I topped off the water before I took the gravity reading. I've read that its difficult to get an accurate reading when topping off with cold water, so I just pitched the yeast last night and went to bed. This morning, there...

Thank you all for your feedback! It has made me discover a lot of variables that I didn't realize I haven't been taking into account. My Recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=255659 As a brewing noob, there's still a lot of new things I'm learning about the brewing...

Hello all. I'm a noob brewer; today I tried making the lemon lime hefeweizen recipe. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=255659 My first mistake: the recipe is for a 6 gallon batch, I had a brain fart and read it as 5... Additionally, I only have a 3 gallon carboy, so I...

Brewing noob here. Went to the home brew store after work. Looked up the recipes on my phone. For some reason, the original recipe didn't show the batch size on my phone, and I assumed it wasn't posted. I asked one of the workers to guestimate what the batch size would be based on the amount of...

Hello all. I just got into brewing very recently, and started brewing my first batch of ginger beer. The recipe called for Windsor yeast; I made the mistake of pitching the yeast too warm at around 81 degrees F thinking it would cool down to room temperature. A few hours later the yeast was...