I'm going to be brewing my Bo Pils this weekend and I sourced saaz at the LHBS. All she had was US saaz. The AA on this YCHH US SAAZ is 8.5 which is quite a bit higher than Czech saaz which comes in at 3.5 in the recipe editor. Knowing that I don't want a lot of bitter but do want flavor from...

I entered the same batch info in both Bru'n water (paid version 5.5) and the BF Advanced calculator. I noticed a wide variance in the Calcium and Chloride. After fiddling with it I noticed that the BF calculator uses CaCl2 Dihydrate while the Bru'n water gives the option to use either...

Had a nice Trumer Pils at the pub the other day and I thought why can't I give a Pilsner a try? So I did a little research and found this article by Jamil Z about Bohemian Pilsner. I made this recipe. I'm wondering about the water. I'm building from DI water and here is what I came up with...

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I struggled a bit with where to put this post. Along with describing my beer It's also about unfamiliar beer styles with my example. I just kegged my Dunkelweizen and I must say I'm rather pleased with the outcome. Problem being I have only had a couple of examples of the style. I had the...

Silly me I started worrying that my pale ale I brewed on Saturday wasn't taking off. I finally noticed that the sides of the fermenter seemed awfully chilly so I went and got my long stick thermometer and discovered that the actual temperature inside the thermowell was 46 degrees. The inkbird...

I went for a hike with the dogs in the Bidwell Park today. This part of Northern California is gorgeous. The park is a big part of the town. The divide between the sierra and cascades. The park is ten minutes from my house. Pictures Post your home town pictures here. Countries other than...

Has anyone noticed some suspicious posts lately? I'm beginning to suspect that there are non people replying to posts. Hope I'm not offending any real people. Hmmm

So I brewed this American Wheat. Recipe here. Looks beautiful. Problem is its too sweet. I mashed it at 149 assuming I would get a dryer beer. Flavor is of oranges and something hard to describe (Butter?) although it is not that bad. It's pretty good actually... I could not source any...

I'm looking at the vittles vault. I'm just not sure what size? 30lb or 50lb? What is the volume of a 50 lb sack of grain?

Did my first batch in my new 30l Speidel fermenter. I really love it. The headspace for a 5 gallon batch is luxurious. The spigot sure beats siphoning and it is a breeze to clean. Left about half a pint above the trub. The handles seal the deal. I think I'll buy another. I bought the...

I bought mylar bags for hops storage. I quickly discovered that they don't draw a vacuum in my sealer because they don't have the little grooves like regular seal a meal bags. I have been trying lots of different tricks like using little pieces of seal a meal bag (the grooved side) but nothing...

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I started creating an American Wheat Ale based due to my recent score on Pilsen and White Wheat malt and TW's suggestion that I make an American Wheat Ale with it. I went and clipped a recipe from AHA and created a copy in the Recipe Editor. Here is the recipe. The original recipe claims 8.4...

I've never done it before so after watching you tube videos here's my plan add a gallon of boiled then cooled water to the fermenter shake the crap out of it to suspend the trub and yeast lay it on its side and let the hops and goo settle out decant the liquid into a sterilized gallon jar let...

My brew session went quite well yesterday using BF. I use it for every brew day and now that the brew steps are working I really like it. (I keep a moleskine notebook as well) I recently changed my mash/batch sparge process based on an article @Yooper pointed me to in another thread. It goes...

So I got my Chico tap water report from Ward pH - 7.8 Cations - 2.9 Anions - 2.9 Sodium - 12 Potassium - 2 Calcium - 22 Magnesium - 14 Total Hardness, CaCo3 - 113 Sulfate, So4-S - 1 Chloride - 5 Carbonate, CO3 < 1.0 Bicarbonate, HCO3 - 156 Total Alkalinity, CaCO3 - 129 I downloaded the Brun...

I hate to be picky but the volume conversions in the quick water requirements tool have an error. 9.81 gallons = 32.24qt 4.06 gallons = 16.24qt Looks like you are rounding everything up. Not that it matters that much but it hurts my sensibility. Damaging my calm :p

Last year I nailed down my process with an APA and now that is my House APA. I am also working out an Imperial Stout which is in the fermenter right now. This year I want to get a good German beer in my rotation. One that isn't overly complicated - so I'm thinking a Dunkelweizen might be a...

Mash steps are out of order. Here are my profile brew steps. Here is how they generate in the session I expect the last two items to be above where the mash steps start.