Two gallon all grain beer?

I seem to be surviving my 2nd dose of Moderna.

bpgreen wrote:...They said if we felt ill, we should honk our horn until somebody came to help....

...and the cars left there after sundown, yikes.

You want the lager to carbonate at the same temps as an ale.

If 2+2=4 how does it matter when you add the 2nd 2?

Still a couple weeks before my 2nd dose. When I sat down for my 15 minute wait (after the 1st dose) and saw a few nurses monitoring all the patients I was tempted to ask how often they saw someone make noises and fall out of their chair. Probably more the case of someone not feeling well and followi...

berryman wrote:Mash, have you made it before? Also wonder if the professor has.

I had a batch go bad once and it smelled like malt vinegar but I have never made it on purpose.

1st dose Moderna today.

Another thought about bottling (jarring) beer. To what degree could the beer have or have not still been fermenting. If it is in a sealed ceramic vase, when it breaks the seal it is ready (and would have been carbonated)? If the seal is good would the jar blow out if bottled (jarred) too early?

......but if there is a large production of unmalted emmer heated in vats....are they really bottling (jarring ?) wheat water?

mashani wrote:......Also the reality is dry lager yeast like 34/70 will work perfectly fine at 62-64 degrees and not give you something nasty....

I once did what I called an Olde Style California Lager using 34/70 at 60ish. It had a slight butterscotch. Worked fine for that beer. Everyone that tried it liked it.

So if I wanted to start doing the brewing from scratch what is a good start point for beginners . What I did was start brewing some extract kits. Chose some beer styles you like or want to try. Try some different styles from some different online stores. You'll start to understand the different ext...

....a plain vanilla cake with no frosting you can do a lot with it like a blank canvas so to speak..... The thing is that when you buy a HME you already have a cake with the frosting on it. You can tweak a HME in a number of ways but you are not really starting with that blank canvas. You would be ...

Brewferm makes a Witbier HME.

Their website has instructions

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