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Hi, I was interested to know about the community's thoughts. I have recently made another batch of Hefeweissen (my favourite beer), but I am still finding that I am tweaking the processes every time I am making in order to make a better and better tasting beer. Never could get the same as the...

Hi, I was interested to know about the community's thoughts. I have recently made another batch of Hefeweissen (my favourite beer), but I am still finding that I am tweaking the processes every time I am making in order to make a better and better tasting beer. Here's the question...After about...

Hi, I was interested to know about the community's thoughts. I have recently made another batch of Hefeweissen (my favourite beer), but I am still finding that I am tweaking the processes every time I am making in order to make a better and better tasting beer. Here's the question...After about...

Thank for the feedback. It seems to be going back and forth a lot on this matter so at the end of the day it is the taste that counts, and of course that head retention. After a week of fermentation the trub has settled to a thin cake at the bottom. about 1.5 liters worth. What I did realize...

Hi, I recently brewed a Hefeweisen 12 BLG . I have a few mesh bags that I pour the wort through into the the fermenter. 100, 200 and 300micron and I have used each of them for different brews over time. I was noticing that it takes forever for the wort to separate from the mash and hops and...

Hi yes sorry not yeast. I meant hops and malt, or whatever the technical term is. Well spotted :)

Hi there, The bottles are sitting in similar temperature as the fermenter at around 20degrees Celcius. I usually only put the beer in a day before I intend to drink. I have lots so I will let it sit and hope it gets better. The beer itself is not flat but the lid does not pop like it usually...

Hi, I recently bottled another batch of weisse beer but this time around things did not go to plan, or rather not taste to plan. Not sure what went wrong but a few things was adjusted unfortunately. All my previous batches came out beautifully. First the brew batch was increased from 23litres...

Thanks, I have now encoutered the same issue with two batches. Latest big batch I did as normal, with step mash without bag and it gave me 1.038 OG out and thats with sparging 78C water through mash bag back into pot for boiling and hops addition. I proceeded to squeeze out as much wort as I...

Now the question that at least for me becomes evident is which yeast is better - dry or wet? Dry seems to be cheaper and no starter required and as long as it is fresh, will have more than enough healthy cells for 23L or 6-7 Gallons. For liquid yeast it seems that a starter is always recommended...

Do you mean straight to final temp before mash out and keep it there for an hour or so?

Great idea. I was struggling with my bag as it ended up weighing a tonne. I didn't brew in it as the mesh is too fine and restricts flow of water but I used it as a filter bag, trying to not spill or burn myself in the process.

Hi. Returning to the topic. I skipped the brew in bag completely and just brewed straight in kettle. I also then sparged before mash out and then chucked the entire batch through the mesh bag. I think it worked pretty well. Taste will tell. Rather a lot of hops came through another filter basket...

Very interesting. Somewhat different from other styles. Mixing all the time to mixing pretty much never. Also room temp sparge? And adding boiling water rather than heating normally? .. All the more factors to consider

Well the small kettle is just big enough I think the pot is big enough for everything as it didn't seem constrained with all the headroom. With bag material getting in the way of natural mixing due to water heating up it could cause things not to mix as desired. BIAB is suppose to ease cleanup...

That actually makes sense as it is difficult to stir inside a bag even though I tried. I think I will use bag only to do final transfer

Yes I can do a full volume mash but trying to follow recipe with sparge water. Using smaller kettle and maintaining heat was easier. Anyways something clearly caused og to drop so much and still not sure. Movement of liquid through fibre mesh bag was maybe inhibited even though I was stirring...

Boil in bag was also to have clean transfer and less particles in final wort but I saw little benefit. Can just pour everything through bag before going to fermenter

Thanks. Can the bag mesh size have an impact. I have a 75micron bag which is plenty fine and not letting anything but liquids through. It took forever for liquid to run through and I ended up squeezing the wort after about 10min of dripping. Is the extreme restriction bad? Should I not have some...