This is article explains the mash/sparge calculation pretty well
http://www.brew365.com/technique_calculating_mash_water_volume.php
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Just disassembled a newly purchased ball lock corny keg. It still had soda syrup in it so I wanted clean it very well. After removing the gas in ball lock post I removed the dip tube. It is a red hard plastic tube. This about the fifth corny keg I've encountered and all the other posts were...
Last weekend I brewed NCBeernut's deception cream stout. I did the original version with DME and specialty grains. I ordered the grains crushed and steeped them in muslin grain bags.
All went well until I was transferring the wort from the BK to the carboy. I was pouring into a funnel and...
I am still quite the noob myself but couldn't you verify the hydrometer is reading accurately by checking it in pure water and the reading should be ~1.000?
I also think a decent example of this is Sweetwater's 420(an extra pale ale, and one of my favorite session beers) vs. their IPA. The 420 has great hop flavor, fresh and citrusy, with slight bitterness while you can notice more hop bitterness in the IPA. Sweetwater is out of Atlanta but I'm not...