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If you have good efficiency, but it's inconsistent, it makes it more difficult to create consistent beer. If your efficiency isn't great, but it's consistent, you can make up for it by using more grain or adding extract.

If your efficiency is stable, that's probably better than if it's good. Adjust your recipes to the efficiencies you get.

I'm 62. I used to do stovetop extract or partial mash batches. I bought a Mash & Boil and started doing all grain. Since it's an all-in-one system, I don't need to do much transferring. I fill pitchers with water from the (filtered) tap and fill the M&B with those. I have the M&B on a cart at...

I had this happen recently with a heady topper clone. I ended up transferring the beer to a sanitized fermenter, took the beer out apart, cleaned it and the keg, put everything back together, sanitized, and transferred the beer back into the keg. I lost about a half gallon (maybe more) and...

I've been doing really long mashes lately (like overnight) and my efficiency has gone up dramatically. I started by settinging the water to be ready when I woke up. But then, I realized that if I put the grain in the night before, I could brew whenever I wanted the following day. So I started...

I think you should encourage your brew shop to buy a vacuum sealer. They're doing their customers a disservice storing hops that way.

I'm at about 4500 ft elevation. I don't pay much attention to the USDA zones because they only tell how cold it gets during the winter. For some plants, I have to act like I'm in a hotter zone because of how hot and dry it gets in the summer. For other plants, I act like I'm in a colder zone...

In general hp's benefit from deep soaking so they develop deep roots, at least once they're established. Since neomexicanus hops are native to arid areas, I'd expect that to be even more true. But I've managed to kill 3 of 4 plants I've bought from great lakes, so maybe your best bet is to do...

I have no suggestions for your brew name, but I wanted to wish you well and hope you don't get infected.

Depends on what you mean by recently. If I remember correctly, home brewing became legal in spring of 2009. The biggest brewing supply store in Utah was around before that. It was perfectly legal to buy, sell, own, etc things like yeast, barley, hops because they have many other uses (I've...

Actually, I think you can ship it if it's empty, but since it's steel, it might be costly to ship it.

It's possible that the tax law says that ingredients shouldn't be taxed (or should be taxed at a lower rate) since technically all of the ingredients could be used as food. But your LHBS may not be set up to tax different items differently.

The beer nut is a LHBS in Salt Lake City. Since the OP and Uintah Brewing are both in Salt Lake City, and the beer nut has really good people working there, they might be able to help develop a clone recipe.

I skimmed the thread and didn't notice that this was already mentioned.

I know this is an old thread and there may not be many Utahns involved, but has anybody asked the people at the beer nut for suggestions?

I notice mountains in your avatar. Are you at an elevation? Water should boil at a lower temperature at elevation. This can affect hop utilization. Note that boiling is boiling. If it reaches a boil, that's good enough. It doesn't need to reach a rolling boil. When I was doing partial mash...

I buy most supplies from my LHBS. It's not real local, but it's on the way ro my daughter's place, so I try to combine trips. They have a deal where I can buy a full bag, but only take as much as I need each visit. They also sell LME in bulk (and give a discount if you buy more than a certain...

I live in a desert, so I try to conserve water. I've used a recirculating pump with an immersion chiller and a drink full of ice water (ice saved throughout the week). You can make the ice slurry even colder by adding salt. If you really want to save water, you can use the aussie no chill...

I haven't done it with neomexicanus hops, but I've taken part of a bine while still attached to the main plant and stuck it in a pot with soil in it. I've found that it works best to bury part of the planned where leaves are forming. I leave it attached until fall and plant the following spring...

Not necessarily. Microsoft supplies free VMs for testing. They're time limited, but if you're using them for short spurts, they'll work even past the time limit.