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Has anyone built their own refractometer? Currently I'm playing around with the idea. I got a bunch of microscope slides from the hobby store and glued them into 60 degree prisms. I did some quick ray tracing and four to seven of them laid side by side and filled with wort, with the other...

I'm doughing in a one-pound batch of pale ale malt and am trying to cope with a milling job from the brewstore that's leaving quite a few grains completely intact, plus lots of big huge grits. Two nights ago on a 3/4-lb mash I used my Corona mill to further grind the grains, trying to do so...

I just bottled two all tall fescue beers. Has anyone else tried using fescue instead of barley? So far it looks and smells like real beer. I haven't yet malted, mashed, and brewed a batch big enough to get good numbers on, though. I'm still testing for basic drinkability.