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A great game for hanging out and drinking some homebrews.

Fellow beer enthusiasts, I just backed this cool new brewing game. Check it out on Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1921968316/brewin-usa?ref=nav_search Cheers, Sam

Thanks all! Looking forward to next brew day. Thinking of doing a clone of dfh 90 min. Ipa.

The general process I listed above wasn't the one I was using. I was fly sparging for 30min-1hr and that was getting me ~50% efficiency.

So general process is: Pour in grains and water, stir, Mash for ~60 min, stir, let sit 5 minutes so grain bed settles, vorlauf and pour back in about 60 oz., drain until wort stops coming out (rate not that important?) Pour in all of sparge water, stir, let sit 5 minutes so grain bed...

I've been reading the gravity after the wort is cooled down, post-boil, and about to put it into fermenter. My beers have tasted good, but I've never hit high efficiency, so I don't know what they could taste like with that. Quick newbie question...is it okay to measure the wort gravity once...

Any tips on batch sparging? I've never done it.

Thanks. I've typically had my LHBS crush the grain. I've never really asked them about how fine they crush it up. Is there a certain amount I'm looking for? Would it be better to crush my own grain?

Thanks, will give it a try. Also, should I measure OG before the boil?

I've been all-grain brewing for about a year and can't figure out why my measured OG is so much lower than expected. Maybe it's my equipment, when I'm measuring the OG, how quickly I'm lautering, how much sparge water I'm using, etc. I've been able to make some solid brews, but the OG is...

My current set up