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Thanks for all the leads.

I am surprised that this has not been mentioned yet. I stopped preheating my mashtun. I just mash in around 168ish in a cold cooler. I leave my last gallon out until my temp reaches 152ish. If it is to high I add cold water. I will lose a degree in an hour. I usually get 80% efficiency. I'm not...

Greetings boys and girls It is old news that Citra hops are not available. I just brewed a Citra Pale Ale and loved it! 10 gallon batch is gone (we are such lushes!). I want to brew it again and there in lies the problem.....No f#%}ing Citra hops!!!!! So who has found a good replacement for...

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You can always just check you gravity. If you don't have a refractometer you should try and get one. They don't use much volume as a hydrometer.

Is had slits on my cpvc mash tun. I got terrible efficiency. The cpvc is flexible and I thought that the slits were being crimped and not letting the sugars through. I got efficiency in the 50% range Now I switched to copper with slits and I get 75-80% efficiency. So my question is cpvc or...

If you hit 10 points below your post boil gravity I have you at 76% efficiency. If so you should be proud. Cheers!

What was your preboil gravity? Need that for efficiency.

Buy a mill! Your crush will be better, fresh and a pretty cool feeling when when it is grinding. You can't trust someone else's mill. Buy a mill!

I am looking at that one. Thanks for the opinion. Cheers

I use different ones (I drink alot of different beers). I was looking at a bench capper. Which brand did you get?

Had some issues last night with my capper (black hand capper) Broke 6 bottles and I hate wasting beer. What has worked for folks out there in brew land?

Secondary removes alot of the trrub and excess yeast. I still use a secondary and cold crash. My beer is clear as commercial beers.

Welcome! Cheers.

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I Currently boil in a 15 gallon kettle for my 10-12 gallon batches. I have not upgraded my HLT which currently is a 7 gallon pot (undersized). Up to this point I have adjusted my strike/sparge water levels to accommodate my inadequate HLT. My strike volume is never an issue because I use my 15...

Is that why my dog is so over weight?

+1 I also had efficiency issues. I bought a grain mill and changed my manifold to copper. That solved the problem. If I started having efficiency issues now I would look at the gap on my mill first.

Poop!?!

Ok, but will it hurt the system?