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I use beer tools. It will do both extract or all grain. Jim

Just finished mine today. Frame from Michaels craft store, white bathroom panel from Home Depot. My writings not the best, am going to have the wife redo it. SWMBO wouldnt redo the writing, said it was my project. So I did a little better job. Jim

Thanks for the replies. I was originally only going to do two hop additions, so I will go back to that. For yeast should I use american or english?

How does this recipe look. If you would change anything please let me know why. 5.5 gal in fermentor 10lbs 2 row 1lb crystal 40 .75lb victory .5lb special roast .4lb chocolate northern brewer 1oz 60min kent golding 1oz 20min fuggle .5oz 1min willamette .5oz 1min

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Here is what i used. I got the malt values from the book Designing Great beers. (7.25 x 49) / ((10.5 x 36)+(0.5 x 34)+(0.5 x 34)+(0.4 x 26)) which is 355.25/422.4 = .841 Thanks

Doing my 2nd all grain right now. Brewing Hobgoblin clone by Orfy. Hit mash temp of 154. Collected 7.25 gal in boil kettle. Pre boil grav of 1.049. Here is the grain bill. 10.5lbs Maris Otter, .5lbs Crystal 60, .5 lbs Carapils, .4lbs Chocolate. Trying to figure out efficency, I get 84% by the...

Made a new Immersion Chiller this morning. Used 50' of 1/2" copper tubing. Got everything at Lowes for $58.00 including tax. The tubing is $45.30 but I had a 10% of coupon for my total order. The coupons are in the change of address packs at the post office. This chiller made a big difference...

I tried both also and like Beer Tools Pro better. Jim

I just had the same thing happen. First time using irish moss, normally use whirfloc tabs but lhbs was out. Alot of floating trub and gelatin like stuff that normally sinks to the bottom. I was wondering if that was normal too. Lhbs said it was normal. I wont use it again, to hard to siphon and...

Thanks for the comments. The original gravity reading might have been wrong because I did end up with 7 gallons. I choose this recipe because it was easy and I just did the same one as an extract that I will keg on Friday. Thanks Jim

Today i did my first all grain brew. Simple recipe. 8.5 lbs 2 row .5 lbs crystal 15 1oz willamette for 60 min 1oz willamette for 1 min. Hit my mash temp of 52, did double batch sparge with 168 water. Everything went good except the pre boil gravity was 1.042 for 7 gals of wort reading...

Started brewing again after 1 1/2 years. Been brewing for 2 years on and off before that. Just do extract now but want to start doing all grain. Brewed a pale ale last week and a blonde ale today, might do a brown ale next week. Have to have something to do while unemployed. Jim