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    New mash tun, efficiency problems

    Not using any software. The recipe is: 5 lb. Pale Malt 0.6 lb. 90L 0.3 lb. 80L 0.3 lb. 40L .25 oz. (7 g) Centennial 10.4% 40 minutes .5 oz. (14 g) Mt. Hood 5.6% 20 minutes ¼ tsp. Irish Moss 15 minutes That's for a 3 gallon batch. Yeah, I did that a quart at a time, 10 times, and it looked...
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    New mash tun, efficiency problems

    Hi. So I did a 3 gallon batch yesterday with my new mash tun but had two problems: one, if I did my calculations right (which i think I did), I only got about 47% efficiency; two, the wort was cloudy and full of tiny bits when I drained the mash and during the sparge. I built my tun according...
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    Fermentation vs. humidity

    Thanks. As usual, a simple answer I might have thought of myself. But didn't.
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    Fermentation vs. humidity

    I mostly (except in deep wintertime) can just ferment in my basement. It's almost always 65-67 down there, and I'm about to experiment with a water bath to help keep my fermentation temperature more steady the first few days. But it's also really humid down there a lot of the time. It never...
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