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Nice, I was worried I was doing it wrong, thanks for the responses!

When I am finished fly sparging, should I still have water above the grain bed? Beersmith calculations give me just enough sparge water to let it drain through and leave the mash dry. So, is that okay or should I adjust my sparge water volume? I hope this is not to much of a noob...

+25 = 12126.25 Arrogant Bastard Clone Simcoe smash pale ale Blind Pig clone Evil Twin & another pale ale

I had to make the same choice and chose a kegging set up. I've been really happy with it and do not miss washing bottles, my wife is happy because I don't have cases of beer stuffed everywhere, lol. But - I don't brew lagers(yet) so the temperature control is not much of an issue for me because...

Brewed this about 3 weeks ago and poured my first pint tonight. All I can say is...Well done Denny, well done!

Congrats! Can't wait to get my hands on some!

Welcome! And please post that brisket recipe ;)

I've been doing 5g batches but I'm going to start doing a few 10g batches soon.

The square cooler was much larger, not sure of the volume. I am guessing the increase has more to do with the grain depth being much deeper in the new MLT when fly sparging? I'm still a noob to this so not sure.

The two biggest boosters were switching from a large square MLT to a 10 gallon MLT and milling my own grain. Those two combined gave me 15 points. I also started using 5.2 in my mash, that gave me almost 5 points. I fly sparge, but should have been batch sparging with my old MLT...the beers I...

I started brewing about a year ago and started with all grain. After lurking around here and reading all the great posts and advise I was finally able to dial in my brew and today I hit 80% efficiency on KingBrianI's Carmel Amber Ale. It's going to be a bit stronger than I planned on but I'm...