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• Posted in thread: Struggling to hit OG... some advice? on 05-06-2013 at 01:42 PM
  Thanks all for the adviseIf it looks like I am not boiling enough off I adjust the boil time so
  I end up where I need to be.How does this (if at all) affect your hop additions? I mean hop
  bitterness d...

• Posted in thread: Struggling to hit OG... some advice? on 05-06-2013 at 07:25 AM
  Hi allI'm a BIAB brewer. While I thought I was starting to get this brewing lark waxed, there
  is one area where I still struggle... hitting my OG.While I'm always very close to the preboil
  gravity, I ...

• Posted in thread: Frozen Primary on 02-08-2013 at 03:23 PM
  Well today I bottled this Ice Lolly Lager. I decided not to repitch the yeast after it thawed
  out, and just left it. I did however pitch a tiny bit of yeast before bottling. I'm actually
  quite stoked....

• Posted in thread: How Fast is Fast? My DIY Immersion Chiller -2 parallel 20'x3/8" coils on 01-25-2013 at 04:56 PM
  Beer is different than wort, no?Edit: meant to reply to SimonBFair point. :D.

• Posted in thread: How Fast is Fast? My DIY Immersion Chiller -2 parallel 20'x3/8" coils on 01-24-2013 at 08:48 PM
  Actually I heard the copper is good for your wort and recommended, to place it in the wort for
  the boil. I heard that from brew strong podcasts.Ashton Lewis from Brew Your Own (amongst
  others) doesn't...

• Posted in thread: How Fast is Fast? My DIY Immersion Chiller -2 parallel 20'x3/8" coils on 01-24-2013 at 10:19 AM
  Nice, but I'd personally rather not have all that solder sitting in my wort.Why not? If its
  lead free it should be fine? As I understand it the copper itself is more of an issue than
  solder.

• Posted in thread: Frozen Primary on 01-22-2013 at 06:17 AM
  Hi allIt seems that lagering and a 2yo son don't sometimes work together. I had a Harp Lager
  clone in a fridge/freezer 8 days into primary. I discovered that my son had gotten to the
  temperature contr...

• Posted in thread: Extremely High Boil-Off % on 01-17-2013 at 06:33 PM
  As a matter of my own interest, how would one scale one's boil off to other setups without
  experimentation.I mean a 20 gallon setup isn't going to lose a gallon an hour (or would it if
  the urn was the...

• Posted in thread: Extremely High Boil-Off % on 01-17-2013 at 03:51 PM
  Thanks Pablo...I just realized that the boil % was a pretty dumb measure to go by...:drunk:If I
  had started with 10 gallons and ended up with 8.9 it would have been 11%So I guess that if 1.1
  gallons a...

• Posted in thread: Extremely High Boil-Off % on 01-17-2013 at 03:29 PM
  Hi allI'm just setting up my new electric kettle BIAB setup and trying to test parameters
  before actually performing a brew.It's a 28litre urn that I am using. My target bottling
  volumes are around 15...