So my brother and I are each doing an extract hefeweizen kit, kind of a competition.
When I picked up the yeast for mine, I spoke with a guy at Midwest brewing about trying to bring out a little bit more of the banana and clove characteristics. He suggested that once I get it to the fermenter...
Thanks for the comments everyone.
An update on the beer. It has started to calm down a bit now. It has probably been the most active beer that I've made so far. Even with a blow off hose, it still blew off the bung about 18 hours in. The raisins are floating and everything else seems to be...
I am making an oatmeal stout recipe called grandma's hidden stash. The recipe calls for rum soaked raisins, which I initially added. When I transferred it into the carboy for fermentation, I was having all sorts of problems with the raisins getting stuck in the hose and the spigot on the...