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Thinking bout going electric Biab, Pico brew, was wandering if their heater element was propietery, or can I go to lowes for a new element if I needed

That's what I do, but my OG is always off

I recently bought a 100q cooler, to brew 10 gal beers. I guess that I also just started checking gravity. My question is, do you buy enough grains for 12 gal, to account for boil off,or just10 gal, boil then add water to bring it back up?

Welcome,ur in good hands here

Manhattan, they produce some great beer, in my opinion, , love the Tall grass

I tried a different arangment with my manifold, needless to say , I screwed the pooch! The OG should have been 1.078, I ended up with, 1.053, with this in mind, if it finishes at the 1.022, I will have a abv of 4.07,which as you can tell is poor! I added 1 cup of sugar with 2 cups of water...

I'm wandering how long I can keep a yeast starter, if its in a stir plate, I planned on brewing Sunday, but will probally have to wait till following sat, any help is appreciated

My brew station only cost 60, but needed some to weld

I'm wandering if the low temp, may be the cause,I did one b4 with an ipa it was burping on time!

I did a starter, with 2206 , boiled 2 cups water, and 1/2 cup of dme, when It was done boiling, there wasn't much left

I did a starter, I boiled 2 cups of water with 1/2 cup dme, when I got done boiling there wasn't much left when I poured the yeast on, in

I did a yeast starter with wyeast Bavarian

I put my pils in primary on Monday at 50*, jive checked everyday to see if there is any progress,there isn't, is this normal