WTF, over!!!

Well mashing sucked ass. My stopper and valve setup fit real nice on the trial run, but after adding the hot water, it leaked everywhere. I pulled the stopper deeper into the hole in my 50qt cooler and pulled it all the way through. **** is running everywhere, I am being scalded, and I have to plunge my hand in to the mash tun to fix it.

THis happened a few time in varying degrees of suckiness, but I finally got the 6.5 gallons into the pot and I am...

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Well Brewing today!!

Things got off to a a rocky start, with a yeast starter for dry yeast. Yes, I know I do not need one, but when you are drinking, what you need to do, and what you do are 2 different things.

Decided to use the "starter" I made, also have some another pack of dry yeast as a back up.

Milled my grain with the old trusty Corona mill, hooked up the drill, so it was a lot faster than last time.

Everything is going...

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2nd Batch – “Belgium Holiday” Christmas Ale
This is my first Mini-Mash; I am using RichBrewer’s Mini-Mash system that he was kind enough to help me out with.

First let me say that mash temps confuse the hell out of me, and I could not seem to set it up the way I wanted in BTP. So in the end I just did the same thing that Rich did.

First things first: Last night my 4 year old daughter and I milled all the grain with my Corona Mill. I got it set for what I thought...

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