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Yeah, I'll have to go back through and see which site/calc gave me the high strike temp. I figured it would be ok because I was assuming a high loss of heat having a large pot un-insulated. Next time I will see if the bag hits the bottom or not and see if I can just use a low burner to maintain...

Did an extract kit for my first brew. I liked to idea of real grain brewing for flavor and complexity. I have 2 - 1 gallon carboys for fermenting. Picked up a 24 qt. AL stock pot. APA style, 5.38lb grain bill in a 5 gal nylon paint strainer / 2.3oz. of hops for boil and another 1.1oz to be...

First bottled cracked after 10 days. Well this thing was pretty hoppy, if there were any off flavors they were insignificant compared to the hop taste. Overall I liked it, just light on the beer/malt taste, as stated before I bottled. Hopefully I have corrected that with my AG BIAB batch...

Update: ended up cold crashing for 3 days and just bottled last night. 9 bottles in total. Brix was down from previous readings, so I'm sure fermentation was stuck previously. I took a taste, very hoppy, but a little lacking on the malt/beer flavor. No sweetness detected, so that is good. Oh and...

update: Since this was only a 1 gallon batch I got a refractometer and used some calculations to determine my FG. It was stable after 21 days, but had a very high FG (1.044 FG with a calculated 1.055 OG) On the plus side I had a few drops left each time I used the refrac, and it tasted...

Hopefully it won't be too bad, the bag didn't smell bad at all, actually smelt good.

Yeah, My goal was a partial mash brew, skipped the milling step, didn't read enough up on it, I was a little excited to get started :) Good news is I have bubbles after just 8 hours, so onward wih the process. One more question, which I may re-thread as a new one; The recipie calls for...

First time brewer here. 30 something from the Chicago burbs, with 3 young boys and a lovely wife. Was looking to get into brewing when I had space in our new home, then the wife surprised me with an extract kit. I dove in today, feet first into the deep end. Wish me luck, and I can't wait...

Ok, cool, I will just wait and see. Just wanted to make sure I didn't mis something and make my beer into a poison :) All sorts of learning today, like I have to mill the grain to do what I was intending, but hey, it's my first time right. Ended up steeping the following unmilled grains...

Ok this is my first attempt at home brew, so bear with me. My wife got me the "craft a brew" APA setup. It came with a smaller, what appears to be muslin bag, I thought it was for straining. So I steeped the grains in the larger burlap sack that most of the dry components came in. Will this...