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I'd love to find an active group in Birmingham. I have emailed a few people in clubs with little or no response.

I don't have a temperature control fermentation setup. Definitely on the list!

So I am going to have a $500 windfall that I want to put into my brewing setup. I eventually want to go to 10G batches. How would that money be best spent. Currently doing AG with the typical turkey fryer burner/alum pot/cooler setup.

Decided to sample my Kilt Lifter clone a bit early. Tastes great, but another week of conditioning and it should be good to go!

I am drinking a stout I made. I wish the scotch ale I bottled a few days ago was ready. It looks like that is going to turn out pretty tasty! :)

You know, I was a Geologist for 8 years before I became a Firefighter. You think I would know better!!!!! LOL! :o

Ya. I batch sparged it. Thanks for the help. I won't make that same mistake again! :P LOL

Took a sample from the runnings out of the mash tun and cooled it. Ended up measuring it at 70*. I am guessing, looking back now, I should have taken a representative sample from the pot pre boil. Would that have made a significant difference?

The brew365 calc indicated a pre-boil volume of 6.37 gallons. It appears I wrote down 6.5 gallons, that could be part of it. My pre boil was 6.5 gal and my post-boil was 5 gal. Pot dimensions (Aluminum) - ~14 7/8 in diameter ~ 13 in tall 58,000 btu...

Should I have used a smaller pre-boil amount and not boiled as aggressively?

The gravity values are corrected for 70*. I used this recipe: 10 lbs Weyermann Pilsner 2 lbs Weyermann Light Wheat 1 lbs Belgian Light Candi Sugar .5 lbs Weyermann Vienna 7 aau Warrior (Bittering) .5 oz Kent Goldings (Flavor) .5 Bitter Orange Peel (Flavor) .25 oz Kent Goldings (Aroma)...

Did my first AG batch today (saison) and all went well. I hit all my temps. Overall it went really well. I used a few online calculators along the way, and at the end I entered my information into the brewhouse.com efficiency calc and it reported an efficiency of 90.9%. Pre boil grav 1.031...

Thanks for all the replies! My wort chiller didn't ship because of the weather in the South last week, so my brew day has been pushed back to Tuesday. I plan on taking plenty of notes as a few of you suggested.

I have many times, and in fact used it prior to this post, but in addition to the information I found, there may be other users willing to spark up a conversation and offer advice not found through a search...

After a couple years of successful on and off extract brewing, I am finally making the leap to AG Sunday. I went to my LHBS and got the ingredients to make a Saison. I have been watching AG tutorials, and have been reading How to Brew, but what experiences, advice and/or tips can you guys...

Not a bad idea!

I am leaning toward Blue Box Brewing. I am a huge Doctor Who fan!

I grew up on bands like Black Flag, Subhumans, Minor Threat, GBH, Agent Orange, McRad, and the Rollins Band. I'm leaving a bunch out, but those are some of my favs!

I bought a 6 pack this morning at 0730 after leaving the Fire Dept. The Red Sox were coming on at 1200 and I had to be ready! Everyone was looking at me, ya I was "that guy"!

I found the link, but I don't have internet access everywhere I go, and like having a "copy" with me. I'd rather have a hard copy, does that mean I am getting old? :cross: