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yeah you're probably right. I just made the arrogant bastard clone recipe i found here and I used individual ingredients from the brew store. the wit was a box kit for my first time. I was just curious if anyone could pinpiont anything besides the obvious boiling screwup because i really want...

please let us know how it turns out!

I'm pretty sure wheat malt has pectins and you have to boil that in the wort, thats why wheat beers are cloudy. i agree with your technique, just saying the cloudiness in wheat beers is unavoidable as far as I know.

has anyone else made the brewcraft belgian wit kit and had it turn out like blue moon? or was it more like an imported belgian beer?

my recipie had coriander and orange zest also and i used as specified

if you just got done with the primary, there should be some Co2 coming out to keep it safe. argon cant hurt IMO. I also racked to a 5 gallon and was about 3/4 gallon short. I let it sit for a week with a towel around it and it was fine, however I was told it could stay for about a month like...

yes thats exactly what happened. the directions said mash specialty grains at 155 for 30minutes then add powdered malt and the first addition of hops. as soon as the 30 min mash was done I cranked it to full heat and followed directions. i realize i should have waited for it to reach a boil...

so I brewed my first brew and it came out horrible. I read on here not to toss your brew but store it and age it. after 3 more months in the dark, it still tastes like crap so I gave a 6er to a coworker and tossed the rest. This co worker loves belgian beer( chimay, piraat, abbey ales, etc) and...

- OMFG!!!! Your carboy is going to explode, lol. - Yeah i made a blowoff tube out of my siphon hose and put the end in a 10" cookie 1/2 full of water. I pitched an hour before the superbowl and when it was over, there was about 2 inches of foam in the carboy. it blew up so bad that night...

I cant do all grain yet so I switched the 2 row to LME (11.5 lbs) and steeped the specialty grains in a bag. I also retained about 10 grams of the last chinook addition for dry-hopping in secondary (5 days) Looks and smells just like the real deal, I cant wait!