Recent content by razorbuck

I have only done the decoction one time and have recently starting fermenting in the low to mids 60's. The corny keg of this I served at a crawdad boil lasted less than an hour. Definitely only doing decoctions from now on for hefe's. I'm sold

Here is how the 11 gallon decoction turned out. OG was 1.058 and FG was 1.013. I overshot the OG by six points. I got a little over 86% efficiency which was a first for me. Im going to guess this is because of the decoction? I have been averaging right around 80%. I compensated for the higher OG...

I have made this recipe several times now. Ten gallons carbing as we speak. I would be more comfortable subbing the american 2-row. I'm not very familiar with how marris otter tastes. However, the yeast, orange peel, and coriander are such prominent flavors that I don't feel exact origin of base...

I am one of the ones slim spoke of who tried to make variations to the recipe but found out that closely following the recipe was much better. However, I have never used the Moteuka hops, I sub in citra and adjust the additions to match the ibu of the moteuka additions. If I am ever at a shop...

Did my first decoction mash of this yesterday morning and it seems to have gone quite well. I used the mash schedule found in the book "brewing better beer". Dough in at 113 and rest for 15 min, raise to 131 and rest for 10 min. Pull thick decoction and raise that to 158 and rest for 20min...

recently had a franziskaner hefe so I was led to this thread. I've made a few hefe's including the tasty recipe by bee cave brewery and sampled as many as I can get my hands on and I have NEVER had a hefe that tasted like the franziskaner. I got massive ammounts of bubble gum and plum-like...

Just a little update, I saved one bottle of this along with another Hefe recipe I tried last year (Bee Cave Brewery Hefeweizen) and had a few friends do the blind taste test. Everyone agreed that the Hank's Hefeweizen was their favorite of the two. I will be doing my first decoction mash of this...

I've only ever made one extract beer, but have tasted many others that were "watery". Never had an all-grain brew that was watery. I don't have any real insight to add other than that.

I brewed this for my first try at kegging and it was gone 8 days after I kegged it. I brewed it one time last year and wasn't incredibly impressed right off the bat(I made it hoppier and used an american ale yeast). I decided to make it again and actually follow the recipe and it was incredible...

Every single thread I visit says I have already rate it(which I haven't). I figured it was a problem with the forum.

I had something happen recently involving this recipe that I found unusual. Me and some buds planned on brewing this over christmas break. When I got my yeast 3068 out of the fridge to make the starter it was clearly tainted. Not having the time to wait for some more 3068 to arrive and make a...

I brewed this last fall with some hop subsitutions and left the coriander in the secondary WAY too long. I really wasn't trying to clone the original but I was amazed how close it came even with my variations. I'm amazed this one isn't sitting higher up on the list because it was insanely close...

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I bottled a batch of this on 4/22/12. I tried one after a week and it tasted like horrible brown bananas. I decided to give it a full month after bottling then give my full opinion. A full five weeks later i put one in the fridge for a day then opened it and it blew all but an ounce of beer all...

I tasted my first beer from this recipe today. I bottled 9 days ago so it is not fully carbed, but I am very impressed with the overall taste of this beer. i followed the recipe exactly. Perfect balance of malt/hops for my taste. It's kinda like a very mild pale ale