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The wheat i brewed should have ended up at about 1.012 but when i checked today in preperation for bottling it was at 1.020. The beer tastes just like it should and actually better than i expected. no sweatness at all. should i just assume it is where it is an bottle. it's been in a sealed...

So I'm splitting a batch between bottles and a pig keg. The priming amount for the recipie for a 5 gallon batch is 1 and 1/4 cup of wheat dme I know that the pig keg takes less to prime so I'm thinking, just over 1/2 cup for the bottles and just under 1/2 cup for the pig. Does that sound...

So i thought i was going to bottle this weekened but it ends up I have no time to make it work. The only chance i can see having is next weekend. That will put this wheat into 3 weeks in the primary. The basement where it has been the whole time has held a consistent temp of 60degrees. I...

Just curious if anyone besides myself runs into this. just started brewing again after a long break and i'm still waiting to bottle the most recent bottle so i need something in the mean time. Went to the store for a few bottles. Out of two or three mixed sixers I think i've found one beer...

So I'm getting ready to bottle this weekened my first brew in over a year and i have a major space problem when it comes to bottle conditioning. I have no intention to go kegs right now so this is what i have to deal with. The place where they should be going to rest is in the basement...

so my local guy was out of the wyeast 3056 bavarian wheat yeast and suggested i went with this instead. YEAST STRAIN: 3068 | Weihenstephan Weizen™ Back to Yeast Strain List The classic and most popular German wheat beer strain used worldwide. This yeast strain produces a beautiful and...

Just put my order in for ingredients for a spring wheat, doing my first mini/partial mash. just looked at the thermometer in the basment where i always let everything ferment and it's 60 degrees. looks like the high end for a lager and the low end for an ale. any suggestions. We have a small...

I was looking to move up from extract to a partial mash, from what i'm finding it looks like i would need a pot that i could do 4 gallons in. My four gallon pot isn't gonna a do a boil of more than 3.5 gallons being watched like a hawk. Can i get away with it or am I in need of a 5 gallon or 6...

was thinking about picking this up for my next brew and was wondering what anyone thought about this kit.

So it's been a while since i brewed anything and i want to get started again but there is one thing that i need to adress that always bothered me. I've just got basic equipment for beginners and the thing that always drove me insane was that although a recipie should have only gone for say...

I've been running into something that is driving me up the wall and i will admit it could just be lack of experience. I think overall i've made about 5 kits and 3 clone beer recipies. clone beer recipies (i'll leave the lager recipe out since it was a disaster and fermented way to high temp)...

Ok, i kept telling myself i needed to wait to even bother trying this since, one, it's an ipa and the hops need a little time to integrate, and two it's a bigger beer and as only just started clearing in the bottle at 2.5 weeks, it spent 3 weeks in the primary before bottled. I know that it's...

So i brewed this and let it sit in the primary for 3 solid weeks and never peaked, i bottled last night and had a sample. The beer was supprisingly still cloudy and when i tasted it the hops had a bitter edge to them, not horrible but it was there. Obviously this is really young and has...

i'm not a big lager fan but my brother really likes them. i was thinking about doing a heineken lager but since the yeast for the recipie shows that it should be 45-52 degrees i'm wondering if i should bother since i don't really have way of keeping it cooler and my basement is at the high end...

I thought i was a mega homebrewer until i added up that i've done only 3 extract kits and put together 3 of my own extract recipies. what a looser. But i have been making a lot of wine over the last year... anyway, needed to get back to the beer and wanted to step up to a minimash...

I'm gonna be making an quick and easy apricot style beer with a Brewer's Best American Cream Ale Kit and then throwing in a LD Carlson apricot flavoring at the end before bottling. The wife likes these styles so i thought i would give one a try on the cheap. I'm looking for any suggestions for...

I made this recipie for a Paulaner Hefe-Weizen style beer, it was probably one of the better beers i've made (have only done like 5 or 6 batches) but when i compared it to a real Paulaner Hefe-Weizen it showed that it was way heavier, not nearly as crisp and a tad bit sweeter without as much...

I just did a Hefeweizen style wheat, one i've done before but flavor wise i got just right on this time, problem is the carbonation is way off, hardly there. I actually left the beer on the sediment after the SG dropped for about a week and then added the 1.5 cups of cooked malt syrup before...

I'm somewhat new to brewing beer, as i've done about 5 or 6 batches over the last 3 or 4 years. I've been doing wine for a while but i wanted to get back into beer and was wondering what types of beers are good candidates for aging and how long can you age beer before it heads south. My wife...