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What hop will give me grapefruit-like aroma?
Citra is a good bet for grapefruit aromas. Check this link for a nice tool to help with hopping your beers
https://www.hopunion.com/aroma-wheel/
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What ingredients should I use for a grocery home brew?
Let's start with your hops replacements. Traditionally (before hops became common) all sorts of other herbs were used. These all had something in common: an intense bitter flavor. You need the ...
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Very light golden hazy beer with citrus flavour
As farmersteve said that bottle isn't going to work for carbonating. You need a bottle that will be air tight, and to add a priming sugar.
Cloudy is to be expected from 100% wheat.
About the citrus ...
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Fermentation still stuck after adding nutrients?
Oxygen at this point may create some oxidation off flavors (wet paper) since you're close to 50% attenuation.
Try to warm it up and swirl more. I would go to 74°F.
I would question your measuring ...
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Hefeweizen final gravity too high
Check your brew notes, as many details as possible are appreciated and limits the speculations in answers.
Solutions differ for many causes of the stuck fermentaion.
If I had to guess, it may have ...
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What hop will give me grapefruit-like aroma?
Centennial will give a pronounced grapefruit flavor.
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Fermentation still stuck after adding nutrients?
It is most likely not the nutrients that are needed but oxygen, your stir will have introduced sufficent oxygen to drop a further 5 points of gravity.
I advise popping the top and giving it a really ...
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Apricot wheat ale extract recipe – advice and opinions
Mostly everything there looks good.
Exception is the use of maltodextrin which is non-fermentable. So it will increase the OG and FG but not the ABV resulting in a beer that may be too sweet and ...
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Fermentation still stuck after adding nutrients?
So, actually, after one week or so, i have new data.
As you can see on the graph below, my fermentation restarted and slowly
made its way to ~1.020 (it's still fermenting and i'll leave it for one ...
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Extract American Wheat Specialty Grain recommendations?
I would suggest steeping a pound of Carapils. It will improve the grainy flavors that you just can’t get from extract alone, and since it is already converted (caramel/crystal malt), no mashing is ...
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Extract American Wheat Specialty Grain recommendations?
IMO you've got a nice beer here that will be really drinkable for the season when it's ready in a few weeks. Really, there isn't a need for specialty grains unless you want to just add them out of ...
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What ingredients should I use for a grocery home brew?
I would get some honey, maybe some fruit, bakers' yeast and make a mead.
Factory produced bread yeast generally has an alcohol tolerance of around 14% AbV.
https://www.growforagecookferment.com/mead-...
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How should I determine a ratio between malts?
For a 24L batch of extract lager beer I often use this recipe. It can be modified as wished but it gives a guide to what can be done. The hops can be changed for any similar amount of "nobel hops" but ...
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Adding Orange and/or Corriander to Secondary
I added 7g of bitter Orange peel and 7g of fresh cracked (not ground) coriander seed directly into a 25 Litre bucket after 4 days of fermenting a wheat beer. I left them in for 10 days. It seemed like ...
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What to do when american wheat ale turned out to have too high extract?
I don't think there was much you could do on the fermentation side to fix anything. I'd still have planned ferment it out, plan to dry hop it heavily to try and create a little more balance. Then I'...
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