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I won't be able to get home to Beersmith before hitting the HBS.. If anyone has seen my super long thread about all my beers tasting bad, here is what I have decided to do. Stop doing all grain and make a simple dry extract 2.5 gallon batch using all different gear. Picked up a 3 gallon...

Saturday evening I aerated my 3gallons of wort with pure o2 and pitched dry safale-04 at 65 degrees. I set the ferm chamber to 64 and let it go. I have zero visible activity and I'm at 67 hours. I think I should have either dropped the wort to 60 and pitched and let it warm to 64...

I'll start with I am a perfectionist... All beers have been "drinkable" but have an off taste that bothers me too much that I'd rather buy beer. There is an astringent like feel that is very hard to explain. There is a bad bitter in the back followed immediately by an alka seltzer mouthfeel...

I've done 2 extract and 3 all grains now. I've had this horrible astringent tannin like bitterness in the back of all but 1 extract. Assuming I steeped to hot or something on the other extract. Have tried numerous fixes and nothing. Well yesterday's brew (Centennial Blonde 5g all grain) I...

So I have done 2 extracts, Oatmeal stout kit and English Brown ale kit. Oatmeal was ok, English Brown had this bitter and a little astringent flavor, can't quite line it up with anything on the flavor charts. Not really medicine, no idea what a bandaid tastes like, not fruity, not butter or...

So I'm doing the recipe at the bottom, plugged it into beersmith but the mash just isn't clear to me... It says Mash Profile Name: Single Infusion, No Mash-Out Double Batch Sparge Mash Thickness: 1.25 qt/lb Sparge Temperature: 188.0 F Sparge Water: 4.1 gal Name Description Step Temp...

Third starter I've done. Previous 2 were 1/2 liter water, 1/2 cup dme. as recommended by the extract kit... According to MrMalty for my 1.048ish moose drool all grain clone I need 1.5l starter! The actual clone calls for a 750ml starter, so I did that. 750ml water, 3/4 cup DME. Boiled...

I have a Bee Cave Haus Brew fermenting now. It was brewed last Thursday and was bubbling away that night. I want it ready to go into growlers by May 4th. So April 7th to May 4th is the time frame. My thoughts.. Primary 14 days to the 21st. Put in kegerator to cold crash at 40ish for...

So I have 2 welded 1/2inch full port couplers on my HLT and BK I use for a SS 2 piece ball valve and a thermometer. I for the life of me can't get these things water tight... I've tried wrapping 10 wraps of teflon tape, I've tried putting them on as hard as I could, nothing... Drip drip drip...

Done a couple of extracts only messed with FG numbers on those... I'm doing Bee caves pale ale Thursday and not really sure on how to calc efficiency. I'll reread palmers section when I get home, but wondered if I can collect and record my numbers then figure out efficiency later on... I plan...

I made a trial batch of cheap wine in a 1 gallon growler that is a 100% mixed berry wine that I added 10 oz of corn sugar to. First wine besides Apfelwein.. It fermented nicely for a couple of weeks then died down. It has been sitting 6 weeks now, but every time I pull it out to bottle I...

So getting ready to move to all grain as soon as the weather breaks here I have everything but my stand/pump ideas... I have two 9 gallon SS pots with 2 1500 watt heatsticks and a 10gallon cooler MT and control panel built and ready. I am sticking to 5 gallon batches as I really want to...

Not doing any temp control, just a basic control box with 2 separate lines (circuits) going into it... Is this possible? I want 3 switched outlets, 2 for heatsticks and 1 for a pump. Then 1 hot outlet. I know the GFCI's will be hot always, for protection. All 110v 15amp, only using a...

I hope I can post a link... Why can't we get something like this over here in the USA? This thing is 1500 watt submersible! So simple... Well at least I've looked for days and can only find the bucket heater that's 1000 watt. I need 2 simple 1250 or 1500watt 15amp heatsticks, but...

Hello all, I have been reading for the past few months while doing extract in plans to move to all grain as soon as the weather breaks a tad. I had some questions I either couldn't find answers to, or not clear enough. Any help on these would be great! I already built a 48 quart mash tun...

Hi all, been reading here for quite a while, finally got into home brewing a few weeks ago. I'm getting close to the kegging time on my first batch and wanted to clarify a few things before continuing. I brewed a kit of Oatmeal Stout with specialty grains from MidWest on November 20th. I...