Recent content by bucfan1234

How to Brew by Palmer, a cool Best of BYO edition with 250 clone recipes in it, and universal approval of my beers by family and friends who were visiting for the holidays. In fact, I put a new keg of Centennial IPA and a Sam Adams White Christmas clone on for the weekend, and the IPA keg was...

I've kegged the prehopped can kits at 7-10 days plenty of times with good results. That said, if you aren't sure, I don't think another day or two in the fermenter will hurt anything.

If that is 17 days total, and you are at FG, I would bottle it. I've kegged the prehopped can kits after 7-10 days plenty of times with good results.

Will do that on the next one. Thanks!

Glad to hear it went well!

Tried your method for my brew today. All went well, and it saved me some time. Thanks.

I took the advice here, and I brewed my first 10 gallon all grain batch today. I didn't run a stop watch, but I came in about 30-45 minutes longer than my last 5 gallon batch. I attribute that to the fact that it took that much longer for the larger volume of wort to come to a boil. Another...

I used aluminum until this year. There are articles that tell you how to condition the pot before brewing with it. Personally, I think aluminum is fine. My grandmother cooked nearly every meal in aluminum pots (and washed everything in bleach), and that generation of my family was very long...

Have fun, and good luck with your first brew!

How long do you have to steep the additional specialty malts for the second runnings?

Brewing a 10 gallon batch of Aussie Pale Ale tomorrow am.

I am not a fan of barley wine, and most of the sours.

All of those are pretty cool ideas! Could probably mirror some of them in 3V by doing a no sparge mash and then using your boil schedule. Is it a worry to have plastic in contact with boiling wort?

I like this one lately. 1940 Whitbread Porter It comes in as light beer calorie wise at 102 cal per 12 oz, and it has an excellent, traditional london porter flavor profile and color. 2.25 lb 2 Row Pale Malt 2.5 lb 6 Row Pale Malt 8 Oz Brown Malt 8 Oz Chocolate Malt .03 lb Flaked Oats...

I never did either, until I had a batch like yours with really low efficiency. Now I check every time, and I seem to be hitting my numbers on a regular basis.