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I'm planning to do a 10 gallon extract batch of Berliner-style kinderweisse this weekend. The plan is to bottle it in a few weeks, and let it age in the bottles until next summer. I ordered ingredients, including a vial of WLP630, and delivery is scheduled for today. My plan was to do a 1 liter...

I've got a pound of 2010 galena hops I need to use, and my wife is expecting a baby in about two weeks, so I'd like to brew with them this weekend. The sticker says 11% AA, they're vac-packed, and they've been kept frozen. I've got an eight gallon brew kettle and a 10 gallon MLT, so my plan is...

Another primitive beer, this one not so much based on a reformulated recipe but on an ingredient. Not incredibly authentic, but an interesting challenge. Does anyone know how they might be able to use 100% wheat malt (einkorn) and get proper conversion...

Saturday was a mixed bag of outcomes as far as brewing goes for me. The good news was that my new MLT seemed to work really well. It didn't leak, held temperature and filtered clear wort after ~2 quarts of vorlauf. The bad news was that I missed my gravity by about 8 points, and I don't think...

Dis here is what I got: 10 gal beverage cooler mash tun 8 gal SS brew kettle w/ ball valve & thermometer 50' CU immersion chiller (2) 6.5 gal fermenting buckets Dis here is what I wanna do: Use the mash tun to partial mash (2) 5-gallon batches worth of beer, and use the brew kettle...

I bottled a witbier (basic traditional ingredients with the exception of US-05 yeast) this past Saturday. I added 2 oz of blackberry extract, trying for something along the lines of Sam Adams Blackberry Witbier. I added it to the priming solution, figuring I'd just add it all together. As soon...

I'm converting this Blue Moon clone to extract. The sticky part is the oats (pun intended). How will I do that as easily as possible? Suppose I want to do a mini-mash, partial mash, whatever it's called, with a pound of flaked oats & a pound of 2-row. I'll be cracking the 2-row with a rolling...

I bottled my first 5 gallon batch yesterday after 22 days in primary. It's a Bavarian hefeweisen LME kit brewed in all new equipment. About halfway through siphoning it to the bottling bucket, I started to notice a cidery smell. (Note: I have chronic rhinitis, so my sense of smell isn't the...

I want to work on a low ABV (1.5%-2%) extract version of SA Blackberry Witbier. My wife loves the stuff, and we're trying to get pregnant. When (if) we succeed, she's going to want something every now and then to satisfy her beer craving that she doesn't feel guilty about drinking. Fruit beers...

As luck would have it, right after I brewed my first 5 gal batch of beer, a guy I work with put a 14.9 cu.ft. chest freezer out on the curb. He got it while cleaning out his grandomother's house (she recently died). Obviously, it's not on the curb any more! It's old, ugly and heavy, and it got...

I completed my first brew on Saturday. It wasn't without a few mishaps, but nothing went terribly wrong. My only questions for more experienced brewers: 1) Right after bringing the wort back to a boil after stirring in the LME, I noticed a little bit of black in the foam. It didn't last long...

First of all, let me say that I've been lurking here for a week or two - this looks like a great community. I've learned a lot already, and I've tried to answer all my questions by searching here and reading through John Palmer's site, as well as some other resources. I've put together the...