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The temperature in my apartment was around 75 for the entire fermentation process. It was only after I put it in the bottles that it was around 90 degrees during the day for 3 days. I hope it will just mellow out after a month or so. A Strawberry Wheat was in bottles at the same time and it tastes f...

I want to try to brew a Helles. Do you know of anywhere I can find a recipe? Or, do you have one that I can try?

Thanks for all the talk on transferring and such. I have heard that leaving the beer in the primary for too long can give a yeasty, bread-like taste. I did have a problem when I brewed a Fat Tire clone that I bought from Austin Homebrew. After I bottled the beer the temperature in my apartment got u...

Thanks for the comments! I'm going to leave it in the secondary for another week and a half, at least. It should be delicious...... I love hop aroma!

[quote="Suthrncomfrt1884"]Your yeast will be fine. Dry hopping idealy should be done when primary fermentation is completely done. The gases created by fermentation will carry all those vital aromas right out of your beer.[/quote] So I should have racked to the secondary, wait until the fe...

Last Thursday (8/13/09) I added 1 oz Rainier and 1 oz Cascade leaf hops when I racked to the secondary. I've noticed that fermentation has slowed down (maybe stopped). When I shake the secondary, there seems to be a little activity. I used top-fermenting Pacman yeast from Wyeast. It is the same kind...