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Do you guys mill roasted/black grains at the same setting as lighter grains? I recall someone mentioning grinding roasted barley more finely in another thread.

I'd like to make a Wee Heavy using primarily kettle caramelization, my planned grain bill is something like 20 lbs British pale and 4 oz roasted barley. What is the appropriate amount of first runnings to caramelize, and do you take it to normal carmelization temperature, i.e. 180°C? I've got...

Is there anywhere I can get a full kit, regulator, hose, and stone, for less than $55? Austin is the only place I can find it in stock and it's pretty expensive compared to the stuff that morebeer and northern brewer carry, but they're both out of stock.

I brewed the DFH 90 min clone about 4 weeks ago and I just racked to secondary. I checked the SG and tasted a bit, it tastes fine but overly sweet and the SG is ~1.045. I'd like to understand what I did wrong so I don't make that mistake again. My extract efficiency was pretty bad, somewhere...

I got a lot of pellet junk in the primary and I was wondering if I should rack to a secondary sooner than normal. I would usually just leave it in the primary for a month and bottle but this one is going into a secondary on some dry hops. Am I likely to get a grassy flavor if I leave it in the...

I bought Briess Victory to use in this recipe, which is 28L. The recipe calls for 35L Amber malt. I actually have 2 lbs of Victory, so should I bump it up to get closer to the color in the recipe, or just stick with 1.66 lbs? I'm more concerned with getting the correct flavor than the color and...

I've been messing around with my new hemocytometer today attempting to estimate the cell density of the slurry in the bottom of my starter. I haven't been getting the results I expected so I figured someone with more experience might be able to point out where I'm going wrong. This starter...

Seems like there could be some stickies in here since I see people asking the same questions all the time. The freezing and washing threads would be good candidates.

Anyone tried adding a dip tube sort of thing to their false bottom to get all the wort out for better efficiency? I did a quick forum search and all I found were topics about kegs, but maybe I was using the wrong term.

I am aiming for ~300 billion cells for my next starter but I have no idea how to tell how many I've got. I was originally going to just go based on the info about starter sizes in HTB and do two 3 qt starters, starting with 25 billion cells from the propagator. However, as I posted in another...

I just tried aerating my starter with air stones for the first time and failed massively. HTB recommends aerating for 30 mins, I put two 4" ceramic air stones in my starter jug for 5 mins, and lost 2/3 of my 3 quarts of starter to foam. Am I missing something? Most of my starter just went down...

I was just wondering if there would be any serious issues using a plastic milk jug for my starter? I usually use a glass mason jar but I am pitching a Wyeast propagator with only 25 billion cells so I'm going to need to do a 4 quart starter and then another 2 quarts to get to the recommended 300...

I don't suppose anyone has an analysis sheet for Rahr pilsner? I bought some from midwest for the DFH 90 min clone but they didn't have an analysis and a quick google search didn't come up with anything either. Rahr's website is also fairly useless.

Title pretty much says it all, I'm wondering how long most people let a beer warm up from the fridge before they pour it. Bonus points for different sized bottles.

I have a ported better bottle and I was wondering if I could add priming sugar to the primary and mix it up, wait a few hours for the trub to settle back down, and then bottle it? I would prefer not to have to rack off the trub and then prime and bottle from there since the better bottle has a...

I couldn't find any pure calcium carbonate on short notice so I bought a bottle of oyster shell calcium from CVS. The ingredient list says 500mg calcium per tablet, do you think that is 500mg CaCO3 or do I need to do some other calculation to figure out how much I'm adding?