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Exactly, the hops themselves have disinfectent properties and the level of alcohol in the beer should take care of any small amounts of contamination as long as you make sure your hands are clean.

It's a Heather wheat I really like and have done a few times. Either no hops or 1oz with hops for bittering. It's got a crisp/tart flavor. A lot of Heather beers are done in more on a Scotch or brown ale style but I like the wheat because it really lets the heather flavoe shine.

Guinness Stout (on draft), Harpoon IPA, and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale are my top three commercial beers and it's hard to say which holds the #2 vs #3 spots.

You're not going to find too many true to style hefeweizens in the states. Most breweries make an American Wheat though it sounds like this isn't what you're looking for. Personally, almost all of the beers I brew are some form of American wheat. My favorites being my Heather Wheat and my IPW...

Whenever you're making a beverage you want to use brewers yeast because the baker's yeast will create sour bread flavors. These flavors are fine if you're planning on baking what you've made but not if you are going to drink it. With that said. Don't toss the cider you've got going now. Who...

The only time I've ever brewed something like this it was headed for the still. ;) Now I would use brewers yeast instead of bread yeast as the finished product had a nasty sour bread flavor.

cool, thanks.

Where have you seen these weights? I used two bags when I dry "hopped" with heather because it's such small particals but the bags floted and I think there would have beed better beer to heather contact if they'd been under. In the end the bags worked fine but heather flowers have some...

I don't know if the "liquid kit you're talking about will make significantly better beer than you're making now. My suggestions are going under the assumption that you are willing to sacrifice a bit of flavor for lower cost at this point in your life. I think we've all been there. :) I know I...

I've got an American Wheat I'd be interested in trading with a few people for critiquing purposes. How do I go about finding people interested?

Plus it'll give you lots of air to mix O2 into the wort when you slosh it around right before adding the yeast.

Whole hops is really short for whole leaf hops so "leaf" and "whole" mean the basicly same thing. Unless the "leaf" hops have had the leaves of the cones seperated in some way. You might find that you get less flavor out of whole hops vs pellet hops simply due to the amount of surface area...