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In the pre-prohibition days, brewing was done by women as part of their usual household activities, using equipment that they had in their kitchens. After homebrewing was legalized in 1978, men came along and added complex process and equipment, within the tolerance of whatever their wives...

I splurged on a refractometer. No need to cool the wort to take a gravity reading.

Thanks for the responses. It'll be a shame to have to dump all that MO. I'll try the chew/50-50 approach. If the results aren't any good I'll toss the brew and the grain. Interestingly I found a foil vacuum packed bag of hops. I have no idea why I would have saved that. The vacuum of...

I never even bothered with fly sparging. Went batch sparging from the start. You have a slightly lower efficiency but who cares at homebrew volumes.

Homebrewers, I have several 50# bags of grain left over from when I quit homebrewing. They were unopened and stored in rubbermaid totes. No evidence of rodents or bugs. I am back to the hobby and would like to use the grain. The starch component of the grains is probably OK. I'm more...