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I brewed this one again, but without dry hopping because I am squeamish about contamination (even though after 5 days there should be plenty of alcohol). It came out really nice, but certainly less flavorful due to missing out on all the dry hop flavor addition. I think I will try it again and...

Hi, thank you for the recipe. I plan on brewing this beer this weekend, but I have a question about the hop additions. When you say "Whirlpool for 15 min at 180 °F" does that mean after sparging, i.e. while I am bringing the wort up to boil temperature?

Update on the beer. When I transfered, I put the first 4 liters in my 5 liter keg and the rest in my 19 liter keg. I noticed the first keg got a bit of yeast. I would estimate two to three inches of the tube was yeast before the beer started flowing. The larger keg was all beer though. We drank...

I brewed this for the second time and with a few adjustments based on what I had on hand. I went with 3/4 pale malt and 1/4 caramel malt and used a D-45 Candy Syrup. The hops and yeast were to recipe. I only fermented for two weeks and moved it to a keg yesterday. I was a bit worried because my...

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I've been googling like crazy and the black stuff could also be that I did not properly clean my steel fermenter (this was my first time using it). There was a film at the top of the yeast bed. I noticed it because it got stuck in the conical bottom when I was washing everything down the bottom...

I did not look in my fermenter before racking so I did not see the top of the beer. After racking to keg, I took off the lid and saw this black stuff on the krausen ring. There was also a tiny bit of greenish and whitish in the black stuff. I drank about 300 ml of the beer before seeing the...

Yesterday I put my wort into my shiny, new fermentation tank. It has a TC connector with an angled barb so I needed to use a blow-off system. I simply put the tube into a bucket of water. My thinking is the water will never get pushed back up the tube into the tank. How important is it to use a...

Brewed this one for the first time last month and after 30 days in primary started drinking it this week. Turned out great. Thank you for the recipe!

I understand how leaving my beer in the fermentation tank will improve the beer and so on. But once I have moved the beer to the keg, cooled it to serving temperature, and started carbonating it, does it change? Is there residual yeast that might continue to process things or maybe something else?

Yes, I am sure the hops were within one gram of being the same for each addition. I transfer from my plastic fermenter to a keg. I fill the keg with CO2, then drop a silicon tube into the top of the open keg. Some normal air will get into the top of the fermenter as the beer flows to the keg...

My process was the same for both batches. I followed the recipe to the letter, except for what is noted in my original post. For the fermentation temperatures, the room fluctuates between 66 and 70 during the day/night. So both batches would have seen the whole range. But I have no data for...

I had ordered enough ingredients for three batches and made the third one yesterday. So I will have another batch to compare in about 10 days.

Thank you for this suggestion, I will look into vacuum sealing.

Sorry, I thought the Centennial Blonde was famous (known by everyone). https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/centennial-blonde-simple-4-all-grain-5-10-gall.42841/ I followed the recipe with the exceptions noted in my original post: 0.50 oz Centennial [9.50%] (55 min) 0.50 oz Centennial...

I would like some help understanding why my second brew of the same recipe has no bitterness and very little flavor. Sadly, I do not have any gravity readings for either brew. I brewed the Centennial Blonde from BierMuncher as my first all-grain brew and it came out great. Just before the...

Just wanted to say thanks for sharing this recipe! I brewed it as my first all-grain brew (my second ever attempt at brewing) and it came out great.