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Thanks for the advice PP, especially the volume/ gravity into boil. Common sense, but good advice. One thing I've done to allow myself to quickly gauge volume is marking graduations in liter increments on my brewing paddle. Today I'll be brewing the same grain bill for the 3rd time. This time I'm go...

Thanks PP. As far as double checks: my grain and hops have been weighed out at home on a digital kitchen scale and my water has been measured out. Thank you for those links, I have reviewed them. I have since brewed twice after this batch. In these two batches I decided to do the same grainbill but ...

Low Flavor Beer

[See MODNOTE in prior post.] Ok, so I brewed an Altbier (recipe posted in the proper section). After 4 weeks in the bottle it just tastes watery/lacking flavor. I expected a big malt character and it just isn't there. My brainstormed reasons: 1) Green beer- I think at 4 weeks this beer should be pr...

As an update, this beer has been in the bottle going on 4 weeks. As one sits in front of me here are some notes: Visually the color is a medium brown,SRM around 28. It poured with small head that dissapted quickly leaving lacey froth on the glass. The nose is very light with a slight malt/grain smel...

I just wanted to add a picture of the brew. It's very clear with a light golden color.

I had one last night and boy was it great! Crisp and refreshing with a distinctive Belgian taste.

PP: I did double check my thermometer, and it was accurate. I also did boil with the lid off. As far as weighing grains, I did it on a digital kitchen scale so unless the scale is calibrated wrong I don't think there was a mistake with weighing. Rick: I'm definitely going to make this recipe again. ...

I notice across the internet most people post recipes without mentioning results. I tasted this batch after 2 weeks conditioning, the results: The beer was medium carbonation, golden in color and rather hazy (no clarifying agents). The beer held a consistent head. It tasted good, with the Belgian ye...

Update: Bottled 1/24/2015 Fermentation was slow to start, around 36 hours and then remained slow for another 24 hours. Then there was 24 hours of strong activity that died down to nothing at 6 days in. The FG was 1.008 at day 7 so I bottled it. As of now it tasted great! It has a strong malt backbon...

Yeah, Funk. Is building from RO the 'standard practice' among microbreweries? Some kind fellow brewer posted this water test from my town. Apparently we have three wells, so there's the possibility that my water is different. Considering the small geographic difference I can only imagine it's very s...

As for water profile our water is in the "very hard" range at 11 or 12 grains per gallon. I tested it last month. We use a water softener to soften our water but according to my research softened water is not good for brewing.

As far as full volume mash, it was a last second decision- literally me pouring water one liter at a time and nervously glancing over at my large bowl of crushed grain. Next time I think I can squeeze that .8 gallons into my 5 gal kettle. Yeah, it was Keystone's Citra PA. I loved the hop aroma with,...

My Second BIAB- Altbier

Hi Guys, The brew bug has struck! This past weekend I brewed my second BIAB batch, that makes two in three weeks. I can really see myself getting into a routine of brewing every other week. I have been and will continue to do small batches of 2 gallons so that I can get in a lot of brews to gain exp...

Ok, I brewed this up today. Here's how it went. At the local homebrew supply I picked up 1) Belgian Pilsner Malt, 5 lbs along with 2) a dry yeast for this recipe- safbrew T58 and 3) Saaz hops (I skipped the hallertau from the original recipe, going all Saaz was a tip in the book that I got the recip...

Oh ok, sure!

The bitterness rating is 16.4 IBU, the color rating is 5.7 EBC and the estimated ABV is 4.7%. I don't know if it's helpful but there's also a Total Liquor at the top of 8.2 Gallons and, like I mentioned before, the OG is 1046 and FG 1010.

I appreciate the help, thank you.

I was thinking the same thing with dry yeast, but wasnt sure what to use, thanks for the suggestion. I'm guessing a quarter of the packet would be good? Is it worth starting the yeast or just pitch it dry?

Thank you PistolPatch for the warm welcome and your help so far. The name of the book is "Home Brew Beer" by DK Publishing. The recipe is from page 128. In the "How to Use Recipes" Section: -it defines that the recipe is intended to make 6 gallons of finished beer -The difference between the 2.9 Gal...

Patersbier Recipe Conversion

I'm just getting back into brewing after a long hiatus. My background is in partial mash brewing but I'm planning to dive into full mash using the BIAB method for simplicity. Here's a recipe from a book that I'm going to try to adapt to a 1 Gallon BIAB batch. I'm choosing it for it's simplicity- if ...

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