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Ok, here is the deal- last year during the winter months I noticed a significant drop in efficiency and a slight drop in attenuation. This year it is reversed, poor attenuation, and a slight drop in efficiency. Last year about 8-12 percent in efficiency, this year, about 5-8 percent. And the...

I don't know if this has been posted before, but I just bought these two items and gave it a trial run tonight and WOW, what a difference. My brewing partner could barely keep up with me filling. Get this spigot: http://www.midwestsupplies.com/easy-on-off-spigot-with-locking-handle.html...

I have been using a 10 gallon cooler mash tun with wonderful success, except for 10 gallon batches. I just can't fit all of the grains and required water in the darn thing for the bigger batches. I have been using my boil pot to mash in (15 gallon SS) and then transferring it to the cooler...

One of my favorite beers is surly furious, midwest has a kit for it and it is awesome. The liquid yeast that is recommended is 1335. The last two 10 gallon batches have been slow to start, had little crausen, and have struggled to get the beer down to 1.020. (supposed to be 1.016-1.018)...

OK, so I have been doing all grain for over a year, and want to start doing all ten gallon batches, which are mostly to big to fit into my current 10 gallon Cooler MLT. My cooler has a manifold that works awesome, never a stuck sparge. I have an extra burner laying around, so I figured I would...

I searched and really found nothing pertaining to how well these things work. I found a few threads about calibrating them, that's it. I am sick and tired of breaking hydrometers. Is this a viable replacement? After searching, it seems one would still need to have the hydrometer, to take...

Need to vent a little here..... So my 20 month old linoleum lizard in all his helpful glory decided that my Surly Furious clone needed some additional flavor from some OSB (Oriented Strand Board). I was changing out some under cabinet lights in the kitchen while my wife was relaxing in the...

18 lbs. Breiss Pale Malt (2-row) (2.0 SRM) 2 lbs. Roasted Barley (300 SRM) 1.75 lbs. Chocolate Malt (350 SRM) .5 Flaked Barley (1.7 SRM) .5 Carmel/Crystal Malt-60L (60 SRM) 1 oz. Challenger (6.3 AA) (60 min) 2 oz Tettnag (4.5 AA) (2 min) 1 lb Baking Cocoa 1 lb Fresh Roasted coffee 1 lb...

Here is the situation, I brewed an Indian Brown Ale from midwest. How do you folks post the info from Beersmith here? I will do that so you have the recipe. First of all I noticed the grains did not look crushed enough. I have found that I get a much higher efficiency when my grains are...

I thought I read some where that harvested yeast looses 25% viability every month. If that is the case, after 4 months what would be left? The reason I ask is I had 3 pint jars of 1028 Wyeast in my very cold fridge (34-38 degrees F) that I harvested back at the end of June. I guess I have a...

My question is this, I have one group of washed yeast in my fridge that is cloudy/hazy. All of the rest are nice and clear but amber in color. The yeast in question is British Ale II wyeast 1335. It was washed from a clone of surly furious (an average American IPA). What caused the...

I know that many of you here do not care much for newcastle, but it has a special place in my heart, because it was the first non-bmc that I fell in love with. I still enjoy it ice cold on a hot summer night. Recently a friend of mine who is a bartender/bar manager, told me newcastle has come...

I searched and really did not see any thing in the sticky faq's (the three links I tried were no longer working). I am ready to keg for the first time and came here to finish up learning about things, but now have more questions than before. Like what is this about short hoses, head space...

I have been having a really bad stretch of hard times brewing. I have had some sort of infection that I can not shake, and now this. I can not get my beers to finish in less than a month. (higher than expected FG) I will give more details on my latest two batches if I have to. 1: Kona pale ale...

I have had a few (four) brews that have not turned out correctly. None of them concurrent. They were a dortmunder, two newcastle clones (all extract kits), and Edwort's haus ale. All of the beers taste "normal" at bottling time, or so they seemed. They all have the exact same characteristics...

So I used wyeast 1098 British Ale II yeast on a Surly Furious clone, and it had really poor attenuation. I made a half gallon starter, and fermented a little on the low side, 66 degrees. My OG was 1.058, but should have been 1.062, and my gravity went down to 1.020, and sat there for a week...

One of my best friends is having a large birthday party in 5 weeks, and I would like to brew up a beer and have it carbed in a keg and ready to drink for the party. Is it possible? I think so but I would like some recipes that could get me there. I brew all grain but this would be my first...

Ok, who clicked here blood boiling "not another one!":mad::mad::mad: Sorry, just trying to get a few of you worked up. I did a search and found very little info on this problem. Which is the exact opposite of what most of you were thinking when you saw this thread: I have made a starter...

Ok, here is my setup: 10 gallon square water cooler mlt with a cpvc manifold with a boiler valve outlet. 6 gallon hlt with a boiler valve outlet. 5' of hose to a spinning sparge arm. 60 quart ss boil pot. Turkey fryer burner. I have struggled to get over 70 percent with the efficiency...

Who does this, even with a 6.5 gallon carboy? I have two six and a half gallon carboys that I have used from the beginning of time. I always use a blow off tube(1/4) into a water pail. Checking on my brew this morning (furious clone), and of course the blow off tube is filled with foam and...