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I have a March pump which I purchased from Midwest Supplies. It works great once it gets primed. I use it to pump hot wort through a counter flow cooler and into a corboy. The problem I have I can't prime the pump whin it is hooked up to the CFC. I have to disconnect the the hose from the CFC...

I''ve been fly sparging for a couple of years and want to try batch sparging. My grain bill is as follows: 7lbs 2 row, 2lbs Wheat malt, .75lbs Munich malt, .25 lbs Crystal 10. To batch sparge I was going to add an extrra 1/2 lb 2row. Mash with 15 qts water at 152F, drain into boiler, add 19 qts...

I have a barley crusher that works great. The roller settings are set at .040. This 4works great for 2 row barley malt. I notice that wheat malt grain is smaller and it seems like the grains can go through the crusher without being crushed . Should the rollers be adjusted tighter and the wheat...

I plan on brewing a standard AG Wheat beer. When I brewed this before I used 1/2 oz Magnum in the boil for 60 minutes. I'm out of Magnum. Can I substitute 1 oz Pearle for the Magnum? I think the alphas come out about the same.

Im planning on brewing a Belgian Abbey Treipel beer. The recipe calls for 1.5 lbs "Belgian clear candi sugar". I believe this is nothing but pure sucrose. My LHBS sells it in 1 llb packaged at $5.00 a lb which means a $10 outlay. Can't I just subtitute grocery store table sugar at a fraction of...

I've brewed the recipe a number of times and except for the last time they all tasted about the same. The recipe is 6 lbs wheat Malt, 4 lbs 2 row pale malt 1/2 oz Magmum hops 60 minutes. The yeast is Wyeast American Ale 1056. I call this "American Wheat Beer". The only difference is the last...

Anybody have a recipe for an Affligem Blond Clone?

I brewed 2 batches of All Grain what I called "American Wheat Beer". I've brewed this before and I liked it. The grain bill is 6 lbs Wheat malt 4 lbs 2 row . 1/2 oz magmum hops 60 Mins. The yeast is Wyeast American Ale #1056 activator.The first batch turned out great. 5 days after bottling the...

I live in the Chicago berbs and received a shipment yesterday from Minneapolis which included a bottle of WL 400 Belgian Yeast. Due to bad weather it took 2 extra days for the shipment to arrive. Tthe yeast sat in an unheated truck for 4 days at near zero temperature and when it arrived it was...

Here is a nifty gadget for cleaning a CFC and other hoses . I bought it at Menards foe about $2.00 and attach it to a hose connected to laundry tub faucet. I blast hot water through the CFC. It clears out all thd crud in seconds. I then put Aluminum foil over both ends of the CFC and its ready...

How much mash water to use? Palmer is his first book suggests 1.5 qts per lb. grain ie 3.8 gals for a 10 lbs grain. In his new book he recvommends 2 qts per pound grain ie 5 gals per 10 lbs. Papazian in his older book recommends 2.5 gals H20 per 10 lbs grain. I haven't seen his new book...

Are there any conversion tables or threads for converting Malt extract and DME to grain weights. Any info will be appreciated. Thanks David Krause

What am I doing wrong? I tried to harvest yeast from an All Grain Kolsch brew. After I siphoned the wort from the primary fermenter into a secondary I poured about a quart of previously boiled and cooled water into the primary fermenter, swirled it around and poured about a half quart into a...

After reading the replies on the thread " Hop Stopper- Wort wizard I rushed out and bought a plastic aspirator designed for water bed filling for $4.75. I followed Dude's recipe to the letter for making a wort wizard. The whole project took about 20 Minutes. I also followed Dude's instructions...

I want to thank Dennis Collins for working with me and making recommendations on how to make the Hop Stopper work properly. I also want to thank Duke for recommending it. As I wrote in a previous thread the screen clogged and I had to bail out the keggle. After I switched from a immersion wort...

I know nothing about wort pumps. I've never even seen one. I'm not Arnold Schwarzennegfer. I'm sure he would have no trouble lifting a keggle filled with 5 or 6 gallons of boiling wort from a burner at ground level to a picnic tabe so he could siphon the wort through a counterflow chiller into...

I recently upgraded my equipment and bought a used Keggle from Sabco and a Hop Stopper from Innovative Homebrew Solutions. I first tested the system out with water and it worked great-siphoned all but 2 cups from the Keggle. I then brewed a 5 gal Kolsch which called for 2 ounces Hops and a...