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  1. nonamekevin

    1st recipe from scratch - Irish Red

    As this will be my first recipe created from scratch, I'm looking for feedback. I used equations from Palmers HtB and drew inspiration from various websites. My goal is to have a somewhat traditional Irish red ale with a little flavor from common Irish spices (i.e., Caraway and juniper). So...
  2. nonamekevin

    When to dry-hop while pressure fermenting

    Brewed morebeers hop blonde yesterday, all grain for the first time. I think it went okay. My question was on the timing of dry hop additions while pressure fermenting. Recipe states to dry hop in secondary fermentation, 3-5 days. I'm keg fermenting and don't plan on doing a secondary...
  3. nonamekevin

    Dry yeast with a starter?

    Reading HtB and the yeast management chapter, it sounds like it's not necessary to use a starter after rehydrating dry yeast? I was planning on rehydrating my yeast per the back of the pack, then pitch this into a starter on the stir plate. The ale that I'm brewing is a hop blonde from morebeer...
  4. nonamekevin

    Comparing my Homebrew to commercial - Dunkels

    Hello all, Recently brewed a Dunkelweizen from a morebeer kit and thought it would be fun to compare to commercially available Dunkels. I'm very much a beginner, so I thought it would be fun to try and improve my tasting/brewing abilities. First up: Hofbräu Dunkel on the left, homebrew on...
  5. nonamekevin

    Broken head?

    Made a dunkelweizen from kit a couple of weeks ago. When pouring from the kegerator, the head finishes or looks "broken" like how I've seen during some baking tasks before. It looks like if I took a fork, I could scoop out the broken bits, but it's just foam... Any thoughts?
  6. nonamekevin

    DME without clumping?

    I've got a few brews under my belt, all extract from kits. Are there any tricks to pouring DME from the bags they typically come in into the BK without getting clumps, or clumping to the mouth of the bag? If I slow pour from the bag, I get a nice buildup that makes it difficult to pour from the...
  7. nonamekevin

    First time closed transfer tips?

    I transferred a dunkelweizen last night to a serving keg for the first time, and I accidentally blasted it in. Here was the process: - emptied my corny keg full of sanitizer using a picnic tap and ~5psi into a bucket to catch the sanitizer. - hooked up the jumper between fermenting and serving...
  8. nonamekevin

    Switch to cold conditioning?

    Hello, I recently brewed a Dunkelweizen using WY3068 yeast with starter. Started fermentation at 62F per the recipe instructions, let that run for about 3 days or so, and then set the kegerator to 70F for the d-rest. I have left the door to the kegerator wide open for ~4 days now set at 70F...
  9. nonamekevin

    Pitched half my starter.....

    I've been planning and thinking about this brew day for the better part of a month. I did a full boil extract kit, with plans of fermenting in a corny keg for the first time. I filled the keg with all of the wort, aerated with a mini airpump for 30min (not sure it did anything), and then started...
  10. nonamekevin

    First time keg fermenting - check my process

    Hello, I will be doing a Dunkel extract recipe from morebeer that I picked up over the holidays and I'm looking to ferment in a corny keg. 1. The recipe for the Dunkel recomends fermenting between 62-64F, while the temp for the yeast is recommended between 65-72F. I was planning on pitching...
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