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Brewed the Red Hook clone from the recipe database for a ten gallon batch. It was my first AG 10 gallon batch so was a little shakey on the amount to collect. Tho't I had eleven gallons but probably ended up with ten. Ended up with about nine in the carboys. Good and bad news was that the OG...

Brewed an Oktoberfest with 10.5 lbs of grain and ended up with an OG of 1.030. I tho't my hydrometer was broken since the recipe would have produced around 1.055. After reading a few threads on efficiency it seems as if grain crush could be a huge issue. Checked my spent grain and was noticing a...

Was out of brewing for awhile, nearly fifteen years, to be truthful. But kept all the equipment. Back in it now, but the only problem is the burner I had bought. Propane hook-ups don't work with the new tanks. Any ideas on how to retrofit this? I'm sure there's a thread someplace around here but...

An update, if anyone would remember. Brewed a Belgium Saison back at the end of June with the Wyeast Belgium Saison. Had a difficult time getting fermentation going at a robust level, so moved it to,the garage which really made a difference.. But it wasn't done. It was still puttering along and...

Brewed a Saison a couple of weeks ago and after a not terribly vigorous primary ferment and a putzy secondary where I was having a hard time getting a gravity reading below 1.030 I decided to read up on this yeast strain. Turns out it likes temps between 70-92. Wow. It was in my basement where...