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So say I have a recipe in beersmith, all I have to do is press the scale button and follow those directions. When you sparge is there anyway to calculate how much sparge water to use?

Can anyone run through the procedure for a 2.5 gallon batch? About how much preboil wort should you get for 2.5 gallon?

Do the grains come milled?

I want to start brewing 2.5 gallon batches all grain. I assume you just scale down 5 gallon recipes and halve everything. Here is my equipment. 7 gallon brewpot 5 gallon igloo converted cooler as mash tun Are the procedures any different for 2.5 gallon batches? I am not sure what...

Do you have a hydrometer? I would leave it for atleast 2 weeks if not 3

Try a tub of water with some frozen bottles of water.

Yeah, I think so too. Just from the airlock, once activity started it was going at 10 seconds between bubbles, now a day later its at 5 seconds.

What is the beer temp at right now? Sounds good compared to my notty pitched at 75 no activity for 3 days... Starting up now but very slow activity.

I sure hope so, tuesday is the earliest I can get another pack of yeast. The only other stuff I have is safbrew t-58

It was not recalled notty, exp is 08-2010

I threw the packet in there to sanitize the outside of the packet, took the packet out opened and pitched into wort.

Its hard to say, atleast 100 probably. I filled it from the faucet and didn't realize it was that warm. How much more time should I wait. There is no activity at all, no foam nothing.

I Chilled wort to 80, poured into bucket and shook around, added top off water. My sanitizer solution was warm, maybe too warm. I put my yeast packet in there for roughly 5 min before I pitched. It has been 48 hours and there are no signs of fermentation. Could the sanitizer solution...

I just pitched a pack with exp 08-2010 and havent had activity for 18 hours now.

All bottles stored at room temp for the specified amount of time then just in the fridge until cold. How long should they sit in the fridge? Does that really matter?

boiled 2 cups of water, added 4.5 ounces of priming suger, heated until boil and boiled for 2 minutes. Poured directly into bottling bucket and siphoned from primary into bucket, once full started bottling.

I bottled a batch of AHS American Amber Ale with 1 week in the primary, 2 weeks in the secondary. Some of the first ones I had after 10-12 days were amazing, with a nice thick frothy head and very smooth. When I hit 3 weeks I was expecting the same consistency or even better beer, but that...

How will this be with a 4 gallon boil instead of a full boil?

1 week in the bottle, threw one in the freezer for a bit. It is carbed up with some bubbles in the beer. Tastes great. I am so happy right now with only a week in the bottles its so good!!!! Thanks for everyones help this place rocks

5 gallon better bottle, not enough room to add more cans, I have to rack or leave it. I am going to rack.