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Is there an acceptable substitute for brown malt. I need to brew a recipe that calls for it and I can't get any before Sunday when I intend to brew. Neither of the LHBS have it.

I've got to be somewhere this afternoon but I've got time to do a 90 min mash but not enough time to follow it with a 90 min boil and when I get back I won't have enough time to do both either. I've got a starter that is ready to go so I really want to brew today. Beside that, tomorrow won't...

I have been using pre-crushed all grain kits from various home brew mail order sites and never had to worry about weighing grain. Now I have a 50 lb. sack of 2 row and need to weight out 15 lb. of it to crush. The other malts are not a problem because they are all less than 2 lb each and my...

Do I even need a RIMS tube? I have been doing BIAB with propane and a 120v RIMS tube and things were ok but I’ve decided to go all electric. I’ve installed a 240v 5500 ripple element in my pot and was about to rework my control box to have a switch to either control the element in the pot or...

Do you want the element as close to the bottom of the kettle as possible? I'm about to punch the hole and was thinking that I wanted the element as close to the bottom as I could get it but I haven't seen anybody say that is a good thing or a bad thing. For me as close to the bottom as...

I can think of 4 places where it could be placed. 1) At the output of the RIMS tube 2) At the input to the RIMS tube 3) At the point where the wort goes back into the kettle 4) At the point where the wort comes out of the kettle. 1 and 2 have the advantage of having the control wire and...

What I really want to do is get started and I won't have 240 4 wire available for several weeks and I want to get started on my control panel so that I can use a 120v RIMS tube I bought that has a 240v 4500W element in it which yields about 1125W at 120v. I want to make the control so that I...

Do I really need to boil my whole starter? I have a hot water dispenser that gives me 180 degree water that I could dissolve enough DME for the starter and then add that to enough tap water for the starter and then I wouldn’t have to wait so long for it to cool to pitching temperature. Surely...

I have a kit Millennium Falcon kit from AHS that I got about a month ago and I have kept the yeast in the fridge since it got here. I used HomeBrew Calculator on my smart phone and gave it the date I ordered the kit and it said that the viability of the yeast would be 75% and that I would need...

I've seen several places - and I can't find one right now - where they say to not use an air lock when making a starter but rather to use a foam stopper. I think someone said that was so air could get into the vessel but if the yeast is making CO2 it looks like the air couldn’t get in anyway...

My first all grain batch and I clearly don’t understand some things. First, the thing I do understand. I wound up with less than 4 gal of wort, trub and all. I guess that is just boil off. But the wort is really cloudy. Could that be because I used BIAB and no-chill? Will the cloudyness...

I got my new 15 gal kettle from Spike Brewing today and it is a beauty. I put the fittings in and 10 gal of water to check for leaks and didn’t find any. I would have put in 15 gal but I was marking my stirring spoon every gal and decided that if I ever needed more than 10 gal then I would...