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That is what I thought too but I definitely can taste a sweet after taste when I use corn sugar. All of my beers are dry they finish out to 1.010 - 1.008 so any kind of sweet flavor I can taste. I do not like sweet beers at all.

I use X-lite DME for bottle priming. I also cask condition with X-lite DME. I like the carbonation and the smooth head that the DME provides. I have used corn sugar in the past but I didn't like the results. Coarse bubbles and a quickly dissipating head along with a slight annoying sweetness is...

Thanks for the tip. I read that when you first put it out. I made a bottling bucket with a spigot like the one in the pictures. It works like a champ. I bottled 54 bottles 3 weeks ago and it only took me a little over an hour. Thanks again for sharing your procedure.

The brews that I make are either PAs or IPAs and have an OG of between 1.055 and 1.049. I always use dry yeast. I use either Nottingham or Fermentis US-05. I Leave the beer in the primary for 21 days and I get a FG of between 1.010 and 1.008. I then rack to a secondary and leave for 3 more...

What is the purpose of checking pre and post boil efficiencies?

The mash temp is what causes the ratio between maltose and dextrine. Basically the ratio between fermentable and non-fermentable sugars. 152-154 dgrees is considered to be a well balanced range. A lower mash temp will result in a drier beer and a higher mash temp will create a sweeter beer...

Thanks Kai.

12 Pounds was pushing it a wee bit.

I use beerSmith. I keep track of what my mash temp was, how much water was needed to produce my boil volume and then it is pretty much what the OG and FG was. After that it is all about the taste. I have only brewed two different recipes with slight hop variations. I have brewed 14 AG...

I use a 5 gallon igloo round water cooler with a bazooka tube for 5 gallon batches and a 12 gallon igloo rectangular cooler with a copper tube drilled manifold for 10 gallon batches.

I get it at Walmart. Make sure you get the Oxyclean Free. Oxyclean Free does not have any perfumes or dyes.

I soaked mine in PBW and the labels fell off all by themselves. Very easy!

+1 on the SS immersion chiller. I use a 50' SS immersion chiller. It was well worth the price for ease of cleaning and the quick cooling of my wort.

Is that a requirement? I figured as long as I could controll the temperature between a set parameter that that would be fine. Why would I need to heat the inside of the freezer? As long as the temperature controller turned on at a set temp and cut off at a set temp it should maintain the...

It's really not that simple. If you are going to steep then you need to use an extract be it dry or liquid. Then you would steep only specialty grains. If doing all grain then obviously they all get mashed together. Basically anything that is not a base malt is a specialty GRAIN. Specialty...