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• Posted in thread: Hops in Hop Sock on 05-26-2010 at 10:29 PM
  Need help, built a hop sock hanger for the brew kettle, I read a long time ago on some web that
  you need to increase the amount of hops when using this set up. How much more of the hops
  should be used...

• Posted in thread: 1st AG Spice Ale on 10-23-2009 at 08:07 AM
  thanks to all for advice, will try adding at 5 minutes and see what happens.

• Posted in thread: 1st AG Spice Ale on 10-22-2009 at 05:40 PM
  I am ready to brew my first AG spice ale. The only thing I have not got a handle on is when to
  add the spice's. I have seen everything from 60, 30, 10, 0 minutes to the boil. What affect do
  the spices...

• Posted in thread: What's going on - low gravity? on 07-03-2009 at 11:36 PM
  For Noeldundas, I did know about the SG and temp, used Beer Recipator, Hydrometer correction
  calculator. For water volumes I used Brew365.com mash/sparge water calculator. Being my second
  AG I am stil...

• Posted in thread: What's going on - low gravity? on 07-03-2009 at 09:57 PM
  Well that was my thought too how you can end of with a OG the same as the pre boil gravity, but
  I checked my readings several times and that is what it said (believe it or not). Again, my pre
  boil vol...

• Posted in thread: What's going on - low gravity? on 07-03-2009 at 08:51 PM
  I collected 5g in the fermentor. The LHBS that I bought the grain from, crushed it for me, do
  not know what they did. After dough in I waited 5 minutes, stirred the mash, checked the temp,
  then let it...

• Posted in thread: What's going on - low gravity? on 07-03-2009 at 08:20 PM
  Brewed my 2nd AG today, an IPA. Took all my lessons from the first one and applied to this one,
  everything seemed to go OK. Hit my mash temp of 152, lost 1.3 degrees in 60 minutes. First
  runnings was ...

• Posted in thread: Keggle Dip Tube? on 05-25-2009 at 12:36 PM
  Thanks for the info, I wonder if you attach a screen (like a bazooka ) to the end of the tube
  if that would work filtering out ? T.

• Posted in thread: Discolored keg innards on 05-24-2009 at 07:42 PM
  definitely bar keepers friend, I just cleaned my keggle last week with BKF and did it look
  nice, did not take much elbow grease either, used a green scotch brite pad.

• Posted in thread: Keggle Dip Tube? on 05-24-2009 at 05:12 PM
  I see on your second dip tube it has no strainer attached does that pick up a lot of sediment?