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• Posted in thread: mash tun vs lauter tun on 03-23-2012 at 10:31 PM
  Perhaps the confusion arose because for much of brewing history, on a commerical setting, it
  was more common to have separate vessels. This way the mash could be moved over to the lauter
  tun for sparg...

• Posted in thread: 6 row pale malt.....school me!!! on 11-17-2011 at 08:18 PM
  I understand that 6 row is better for grain bills with a high number of adjuncts/unfermentables
  as it has a higher diastatic power. My question is, wouldn't all grainbills benefit from the
  higher dias...

• Posted in thread: Brewing TV iPhone app help needed...... on 10-25-2011 at 09:06 PM
  Awesome, thanks for the help everybody.

• Posted in thread: Brewing TV iPhone app help needed...... on 10-25-2011 at 08:35 PM
  So I was watching the most recent episode of Brewing TV, and was curious as to what iPhone app
  Dawson is using in the first part of the episode????I've done some searching and couldn't find
  anything t...

• Posted in thread: Going from 5gal to 10gal setup.....school me!!! on 08-22-2011 at 04:04 PM
  Thanks Cidah. I'm currently using the 5gal Gott cooler setup from Northern Brewer, and will be
  upgrading to the 10gal setup of the same kind. Just need to get a bigger brewpot now. 25qt
  minimum? Also,...

• Posted in thread: Going from 5gal to 10gal setup.....school me!!! on 08-22-2011 at 03:53 PM
  What differences in terms of existing recipies can I expect? Can I simply double my
  ingredients, or is there a proportion rule I need to follow? For those of you who made the
  switch, is there anything...

• Posted in thread: Stuck Fermentation/No Activity after 48hrs.......please HELP!!!!!! on 07-08-2011 at 05:51 PM
  That's the problem, there is nothing in suspension. The yeast cake grew for the first 2 days,
  but now the cake is ~1/2" thick on the bottom, sitting on the trub. It looks now how my last
  batch (identi...

• Posted in thread: Stuck Fermentation/No Activity after 48hrs.......please HELP!!!!!! on 07-08-2011 at 05:24 PM
  Ya, I'm starting to get worried about infection as it has been sitting so long, even with good
  sanitation.Should I pitch 1 or 2 packs of Nottingham? Initially, i'm thinking about just
  sprinkling 2 pac...

• Posted in thread: Stuck Fermentation/No Activity after 48hrs.......please HELP!!!!!! on 07-08-2011 at 03:31 PM
  Sooooo, here I am 5 days after pitching, and i'm still at my OG of 1.072. I've tried raising
  the temp to 72 and swirling it a bit every few hours to help with suspension. It's stuck. I
  need to re-pitc...

• Posted in thread: Stuck Fermentation/No Activity after 48hrs.......please HELP!!!!!! on 07-07-2011 at 02:12 PM
  Thanks for the replies and input all. After I took a gravity reading last night and saw that
  there had been no active fermentation yet, I went back down a few hours later to check on it,
  and it was fi...