Our Home Brewing Blog

This is going to be a small post, mostly for posterity.

A week ago Sunday I brewed the Hefeweizen.  I had a few minor issues, but for the most part it went very well.  I had some folks visit from the Prairie Homebrewing Companions to tell me where I was going wrong (actually I wasn’t doing that bad I guess).  Ended up with an OG of 1.044 instead of 1.049 like I had hoped… should have used more of the sparge and boiled off more liquid, but was pinched for time.

Here is the beer for the brew day:

And here is the new sparge system in action! (insulated, new shelves, and new sparge arm):

I have since thrown it into secondary (yesterday) and it looks very good!  Cannot wait to taste it at the beginning of next month (shouldn’t need too much bottle conditioning).

Next week is either a Warrior Hops IPA part deux, or a Rye IPA (will decide tonight at the Country Cannery).