Recent content by jeremyjudd

Thanks all for weighing in. Good tips about draining the crud out of the bottom of the tank and adding campden. Will do both.

It occurred to me a few years back that taking cold tap water to 170ish degrees takes a lot more time and uses a lot more propane than taking hot water from the tap at roughly 125 degrees to 170. So since that time I always get my mash water from the hot water tap. I make great beer and have not...

I used to love Widmer's Snowplow. So much so that I contacted them and ask them to start making it again (They stopped a few year's back). They told me that others had called w/ the same request, but they didn't intend to start producing again. Bummer. Best Milk Stout I've ever had...

Ah yes, apologies. Should have looked at the pic.

I started w/ a square cooler and stainless braid. I had efficiency problems when batch sparging and tried just about everything. Adjusted water to grain ratio Changed LHBS assuming crush might be poor Played with various temperatures between 148-158 Stirred the piss out of it when mashing in...

Curious, did you end up with an ABV of about 6.1% with this beer? That's what NB lists it as, but was running the recipe through TastyBrew.com and the math doesn't seem to jive. At 75-percent brewhouse efficiency, I come up with a projected OG of 1.050, and an FG of 1.013, making this beer about...

I had this happen last week. I was packing a full corny keg down to the kegerator and one of the handles halfway ripped off in my hands. I mixed up some JB Weld, doped it on thick and stuck the handle back on with a weight on top to keep it in place (book, bricks, whatever you've got laying...

Some great tips in here. Thanks for the feedback. Next time I'll follow this method. Seems like I don't stir enough (I never stir before mash out based on some other reading that the grain bed should settle thoroughly settle before rinsing), and I'm not gathering enough sweet wort. So next time...

This has all been very helpful. Sounds like there are two pretty big changes here - the first being that I'm probably not running enough water through my grain (gonna need a bigger brew pot), so I'll try upping that to 7 gallons. Also like the notion of raising the temp of the grain bed...

Thanks for the feedback. Still a little confused. I ran off just about 5 gallons exactly - because my efficiency (at least appeared to me to be low) I added about 1.36 lbs of light malt to boost. Once I finished the boil and cooled, I checked gravity and came out at about 1059. It seems like if...

Hi all, I know there are multiple posts about this, and I've browsed FlyGuys recent post about this as well, but I'm still apparently missing something. I routinely am missing OG by 10-16 points. Efficiency is in the low 60's%. Was hoping I could list out my process and get some...

I'm relatively new at all-grain brewing - so if this is a dumb question, apologies in advance. I usually get my supplies from NorthernBrewer.com. I was about to order a recipe, but then started wondering if brewhouse efficiency was assumed at 100-percent. If it was, then I figured I needed to...

This has been really interesting to read all of your responses. In regard to Schwind's comment about full boils- I've been doing full boils since the beginning, so no change there. Good points about oxygen and yeast, that one had not occurred to me. I don't hydrate my yeast to the extent...

Thanks rocketman, that's good advice. I haven't been using campden, and I'm not up to date on what's in the water around here. That may well have something to do with it.

Lols. I think I prefer this response... Fair enough, I'll just go with it. In the end, as long as it hits FG it doesn't matter anyway.