Twofox
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Poured a gallon in to his kettle at a time and marked as appropriate.
Yup, guess I should clarify. What did you use to mark it with?
Poured a gallon in to his kettle at a time and marked as appropriate.
... and she caps them. Note the Troeg's Brewfest shirt because she rocks!!!
Everything is capped and then gets a quick dip in a bucket of warm water. I like to rinse the beer off of them.
And they are cased up and ready to store in the basement at 65-70 degrees for 2-3 weeks.
I got 44 bottles this time... I was a little under 5 gallons, so I got more than I thought, actually. I am going to rig up a dip tube for the back of my bottling bucket valve asap. I leave too much in the bucket.
I have a label design in the works, but I am going to alter it a bit before posting. I used blue caps this time, and the graphic artist in me needs to match. More soon!
Yup, guess I should clarify. What did you use to mark it with?
I'm sure this is a dumb question, but I'm new! Are there holes in the PVC pipe that goes into the cooler?
Nice tutorial here, did using your own grain mill ever increase your efficiency?
I know this post is old but...wouldnt it work nice to put the piping in a grain bag to keep out the grain and make it so much easier to clean and such?? I am going to try this...thanks Jeff
I always use this Mash Calculator for my strike and sparge water. Now, call me crazy, but it always gives a larger volume of water for the sparge, not the strike, so I always reverse them. Makes sense to me to add the larger volume first, where grain absorbtion is higher.
Come on, fellas. No one has answered the question about whether or not it is important to wait 10 minutes after adding in the sparge water but before emptying said sparge water.
Come on, fellas. No one has answered the question about whether or not it is important to wait 10 minutes after adding in the sparge water but before emptying said sparge water.
WHAT'S THE ANSWER? INQUIRING MINDS MUST KNOW.
No need to wait. Add sparge water, give it a good stir, vorlauf (if you do that) and collect the runnings. I've done about 70 AG batches this way.
Thanks! Wish I had known this earlier today, but oh well. This was our second time AG, and it went a lot better than the first time. Looks like we got 70% efficiency. Eh. Not too bad, but there's a lot of room for improvement.
If you're going to be packaging this beer within a couple of weeks, it'll be fine, just let it settle. Any mechanical advantage you have toward clarity will be offset (bigtime, in my opinion) by the chances of infection and oxidation that come with racking to another vessel.
What is the fermentation temp for this beer ?Great tutorial. I hope you like the Nut Brown!
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