Spanky's Place

1 - I'll admit Witbier is not my favorite to make or otherwise. It's not so much the cloudy issue as the taste. With winter coming, the dark beers are nice. Maybe I should break out my beer making supplies. Anyway, what's the label on that glass say?

2 - "Beer is proof that God loved us and wanted us to be happy." (Apparently, though, there is supposed to be a reasonable limit to that happiness, which I once exceeded with alarming regularity. As a result, I now have to travel a different road to happiness.)

"Really cloudy" is likely a result of very glutenous wheat rather than hopping -- I'll leave aside the idea that witbier is the ideal excuse to leave the hops behind for a change and go for a completely different taste. (If the suspension stays ugly and you want to salvage the batch, you might want to try isinglass -- chill to near-freezing first -- and riddling like champagne.)

3 - @Curt: I normally like dark beers; however I wanted to try something new.

@Stan: Thanks for the info about the wheat. The secondary fermentation seemed to clear it up very nicely, it has is sort of a milky amber. I've never heard of isinglass; I'm going to have to look into it.

-Devin.

4 - We may have to link up next year. I grew these this year:

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and may need to do something with them. I'll find out exactly what kind of hops they are. A very impressive plant (height, especially).

5 - @Gregg- I'll take a piece of that action...

Boy, it sounds like we have quite a few homebrewers that work with Domino...