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Partial mash

The usually top off with purified drinking water before I pitch.

The beers vary, I've had the problem with dunkelweizens, vanilla porters, an apricot ale, and a belgian triple. Didn't have the problem when I made a wit, a weizen, or an IPA. While I realize that some beers are meant to have more malty sweetness, this is above and beyond what I would expect...

So I've brewed probably 7 or 8 batches, usually the brewer's best kits, and have had very mixed results. Some brews come out great, but a few of them are coming out very sweet, both before bottling and after carbonation. I'm also having some difficulty hitting my FG's. A few things I've...

Thanks for the advice, guys. Turns out that white came out REALLY good. The recipe is in 'Brewing with Wheat' if you wanna try it. I've over indulged a bit tonight, if I'm honest. Funny thing... the first one I had tonight was good, by the time I got to the forth I thought it was the most...

Thanks, dirtybasementbrew, I've got both types of airlock. I tend to brew beers that are heavy on the sediment side, so I think I will just stick with my thief. The advantage of it, in my mind (and please correct my relatively inexperienced notions if my thinking is wrong) is that with the...

The problem that I had is with the airlock, if I try to do this again I will probably open the lid. Without getting a free flow of air it was struggling to equalize the pressure. It kinda did the 'glug-glug' thing, sucking in some less-than-sanitary water and stirring up a lot of sediment in...

Alright, so I'm on like my 7th beer (with mixed results) and have a question about how most people transfer their beer. When I go from the brewpot to the primary, I basically just cool down to the low 80s, then dump the whole pot into the primary, am I supposed to be leaving the sediment behind...