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I have a 20 gallon PolarWare brew kettle that I use as my MLT in a HERMS setup. I have a false bottom that has ~ 3 gallons of space under it. I have a feeling that this may be the cause of some of my efficiency and attenuation problems that I've had since I started using this system. So...

I have the book "Brewing Classic Style" by Jamil Z and am interested in brewing the Strict Observance Tripel. Under the Fermentation and Conditioning instructions it states "Pitch the yeast at 64 and let the temperature rise slowly to 70 over the course of 1 week. When finished, carbonate...

I transferred my beer to a carboy for secondary fermentation and am dry hopping with whole leaf hops (citra). They are currently floating on top. I'm guessing that they will become saturated and then eventually be submerged. Is that what should happen? Or do I need to do something to get...

I was reading that a yeast starter should be made 18-24 hours in advance. I'm brewing on Saturday and will not have time tomorrow to do it. So I was hoping I could do the starter tonight and use it Saturday. Will that cause any problems? Another reason I want to do it tonight is that I...

I am planning on brewing EdWort's Bavarian Hefeweizen this weekend. According to his instructions - he said that he recommends fermenting at 68 degrees. My basement is 70 degrees. I do have a refrigerator with an external temperature controller for it. So I was thinking of firing up the...

I have a Maibock that has been lagering for about 2-3 months. I'm ready to bottle it soon. The instructions on the kit that I used (from RiteBrew.com) says to use 4.3 oz table sugar. Several online calculators are saying that if the temp is 35 to use between 2.1-2.5 oz of table sugar. The...

Yesterday after pitching the yeast and sealing up the lid on the fermenter, I realized I did not get a hydrometer reading. So I got my beer thief, rinsed it off well and then sprayed it with a spray bottle I prepared with diluted five star sanitizer (iodine based). I broke my batch up into...

So during my first all-grain batch I was using a new plate chiller that we just bought. The plate chiller has barb fittings for half inch ID tubing. We were using half-inch Inside Diameter silicone tubing (that we purchased from morebeer.com). When we attached the hose to the barb...

I just completed my first all-grain batch and I have lots of questions about things that just didn't quite go as expected. Rather than list all questions in a single thread - I thought I'd just open a thread for each question. First thing that happened was during the sparge/runoff. I was...

I got a recipe that calls for adding hops at 0 minutes. From that I've been reading about this flameout addition - it seems mostly to be done with immersion chillers which take a fair amount of time. If I plan on using a plate chiller - does it even make sense doing the flameout addition...

I am in the process of geting all my equipment ready for my first All-Grain batch. I found a recipe that I'm really interested in, it's an Orange Kolsch. So I've taken an all-grain brewing class my local homebrew store and I'm familiar with the process of mashing and sparging. My question...

I am trying to get set-up for all-grain brewing and I just purchased a 70-QT Coleman Xtreme cooler to use as a Mash tun. A few weeks ago I took a class offered at my local Home Brew store. In the Mash Tun that they were using, they had a hole drilled through the top of the cooler that was...