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Need suggestions, I have some left over grains and hops and was wondering what to make with it. I prefer lighter dryer beers 5lb 2 row 2lb 6oz caramalt 40L 2lb 14oz victory malt 28L 5lb 13oz Munich 10L 2lb 2oz Carafoam 2.9L 3lb 15oz chocolate 400L 5 oz Special Roast 40L 1oz Liberty 4.3% 1oz N...

Just an update. I bought a temp sensor off the net shortly after my original post. I did receive a temp sensor free of charge from pit boss 2 weeks ago, took a little over a month to get it. I've done one smoke since I replaced the sensor with the one I bought. Today I wanted to smoke some...

And sometimes you can over think a problem that has a simple solution.

Ran across this YouTube video on Anvil mash efficiency. Pretty well spells out everything I was thinking that was causing low efficiency

I have to vent about My Pit Boss Tailgater. It has been nothing less than a headache with all the repairs I've had to perform. I've owned it just over a year. It started with a bad ignitor right out of the box, after ½ hour on hold I got to talk to a real person and a new ignitor was on it's...

I see Sierra Nevada released their pale ale recipe. I'm planning on making it and was wondering if the 2oz hop addition at flame out should be left in the wort during fermentation or filtered out on it's way to the fermenter?

Before your next brew day, calibrate your equipment. Check your scale with a known weight. Weigh out a gallon of water, 8.34 lbs. Then make a permanent mark on your vessel and always use that. Plastic kool-aid pitchers work great. Never trust the markings on anything, My Anvil's gallons...

After a dozen or so brews with the Anvil I've come to the conclusion the efficiency problem with it stems from the mash basket tall design with holes up the side. The tall design causes the grains to become compacted and with holes up the side lets the sparge water just run out the sides. I got...

Thank you. I should of checked the basics. I had a leak in the fittings.

This is my first try at pressure fermenting. I have a ale that has dropped from 1.052 to 1.021 at which point I attached the spunding valve on my corny keg. I added 5 PSI of pressure and it quickly bled off. I messed around with it. I wound up adding 15 psi of pressure and bled it off to 10 lb...

I've read a lot of info about pressure fermenting but I still have a question or two. For those who pressure ferment in a corny keg how full do you fill your 5 gallon kegs and do you use Fermcap? Also do you start pressure fermentation right after pitching yeast? I have an old bottle (2Years...

Thank you, no wonder I couldn't find it on their website. I was looking for floating dip tube

I have a couple of sankey 1/6bbl kegs that I came across and I was thinking of using them to do pressure fermentation. I found this at Williams Brewing which should work well: https://www.williamsbrewing.com/Sankey-Keg-Ball-Lock-Tri-Clamp-Conversion-Kit-P4767.aspx The next hurdle is the...

Same here. Boil a gallon of water -add to fermentor -add DME ( boil DME if your concerned about sterilizing it), stir well- add your choice of pre-hopped LME, stir well - add enough water to get to 5 gallons, pitch yeast when temp is with in 5-10 degrees of 70. Ferment then keg/bottle. Couldn't...

Just throwing this out there, but could they be selling you old kits. The reason I say this is because I've bought old kits. There's a local party store here, and the owner thought he could get into selling Homebrew supplies. No one ever bought anything so He had a sell on everything. I bought a...