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So I took a sample of my Helles today which has been in secondary (spunding) for about a week. The gravity at transfer was 1.013, and today it was 1.011 and carbonated nicely. I've been ramping the temp down slowly to keep the yeast in suspension, and it appears to be working. Today the temp...

This happened to me recently as well. I do mostly partial mash brews and I got some LME from a different supplier that only fermented down to around 1.020, on two seperate occasions. I found out from that supplier that there was a bad batch of LME in the supply chain that was fermented at too...

How long has it been in primary? As soon as you're within a couple points of your target FG, you could rack it. In fact, you could just dry hop in the primary, and then bottle. Either way, I would definitely get it into bottles before you leave. If for no other reason, wouldn't it be nice...

Has anyone seen a published water profile from any of the extract makers? I'd be kinda curious to know what baseline we're working with.

1 lb of DME in 2 gallons of water is about 1.023 boil gravity. There's a lot of argument over whether or not DME/LME needs to be boiled at all. The all-grain process requires full volume boils for several reasons, primarily: 1. Reduction of total volume to achieve target gravity. 2...

what was your boil volume?

Update: According to 2 different sites that calculate IBU's, the relationship between hop utilization and total volume is a linear one. That is the total IBUs in a 1 gallon batch are 5x higher than in a 5 gallon batch, everything else being equal. BTW, the sites I found were...

Unhopped extract. I know that specific gravity affects hop utilization, i.e. in a concentrated boil. But that's not what I'm talking about. I don't see how the overall scale of the boil would affect hop utilization that much. But if it did, I think it would be easy to calculate and...

So what's the least amount of boil volume anyone has used, and how did it work out? When using extract, it seems like the only practical reason to boil at all is to extract hop bitterness, and of course sanitize the wort. But more and more people, including myself, are having good if not...

Can't say for sure, but I think the port for all the pacific APO's is in California somewhere. When I was stationed in Korea, I ordered from morebeer almost all the time, and also was able to get free shipping on orders over $60 (I think).

Around 08-09 I was ordering from Morebeer and shipping to my APO in Korea, and I remember not having to pay for shipping at all when I ordered over a certain amount. I think that's because if they ship to an APO, they're only paying to ship it as far as the port (west coast for pacific-AP, east...