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One thing that isn't made clear is the strike temperature of your mash. If you get your mash water to 152F and then add 14.25lb of grains that are at say 75F the temperature of your mash will drop below the desired 152. If you've got a program/app that you're using to catalogue your brews...

If you want to carbonate using sugar rather than the capsules, which would be more cost effective, you can use this calculator to work out how much sugar to boil up...

Crikey, well, erm, this is an interesting thread. So how many gallons do you have brewed now Altrez, and how much is actually ready for drinking? What has me worried is that all the kit that has been posted the thing that I've been most tempted by is the LED board thing. Ooh pretty lights...

I've had the same problems after trying to reuse the remains of a too large starter, my starter making process now involves the unused starter going into my recently boiled jug for my stick blender which has markings every 50ml. That then goes in the fridge overnight to see an approximation of...

I'm inclined to disagree a little with Rodwha on the difficulty on the all grain option, I've done a few all grains and a few steeping brews and have found the all grains simpler as it's much easier to maintain temperature during the mash due to much higher mass keeping the temperature stable...

It may be worth also taking note of the size of starter used. I've got a jar of WLP001, one of WLP002 and one of WLP007 all from fresh vials where I made too big a starter too save some for the next brew. Now I can't remember how big the starters were and have no idea how much yeast is in them...

I used 12 gauge in mine.

So I'm starting down the dark path of trying to have proper control of fermentation temps. I don't have room for another fridge/freezer in my apartment so my current method involves: A big bucket sat in my spare bath with fermenter inside that and water up to the level of the beer...

This is the video I emulated when I built my temp controlled switches a few weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrdOpk10MkE

I've only done 7 brew myself so I'll answer what I can and even then feel free to take what I say with a pinch of salt: 2) Probably not screwed - there are a few threads around here (including a great one from Revvy) where similar things are done. That kind of thing should be avoided where...

If it were me (and I don't really know, I'm just repeating what I've seen on here parrot fashion), I wouldn't do a secondary, they'd be used for long term aging (4 weeks isn't long term) or putting other things in the beer (dry hopping, fruit etc.). The recipe doesn't suggest either so I...

Firstly I'd recommend posting the kit recipe on here so that more experienced folks can give you a heads up as to whether a secondary is really necessary. Second, if the secondary is necessary it would probably be the carboy that is secondary (hopefully with not too much headspace). I've got a...

I pulled this formula into excel after finding the formula somewhere on here =(((Postboilvolume*((original_gravity_pretopoff-1)*1000)/posttopoffvolume))+1000)/1000 So in your case I'd guess at your gravity being in the region of 1.061 Edit: Ha Ha, looks like DocScott and me just...

Knowing that I was having some work done on my kitchen today I held off brewing up a hobgoblin clone this weekend and got on with it after getting back from work tonight. Things seemed to be going well steeped my grains got my wort up to a fairly pathetic rolling boil and got on with things...

I'd also double check that the inner diameter of your vinyl is compatible with the the outer diameter of your chiller. I bought one last week (largely based on having read through your how to chill in a flat thread so thanks for that) and had to do a bit of stretching of the vinyl to go over my...