Recent content by 30burps

Very nice paddles, please include me in the drawing. :)

The compromise is exactly what I've been doing and have had great results. I dough-in at 1.2ish-q/gal, mashout with 1.5 to 2.5 gallons of boiling depending on grain bill then heat up ~5 gallons of sparge. My setup requires 8 gallons in order to hit 5.5 after a 90 minute boil, so I cut off the...

I'm a fly sparger and initially was not doing a mash out. My first 5 or so batches came out super tasty, but I couldn't seem to get over 72ish efficiency. Only out of curiosity I tried mashing out and didn't get any noticeable efficiency gains. Bobby_M posted an interesting poll here about...

Just wanted to drop a line to everyone here at HBT and say thank you for putting together such a fantastic resource for homebrewing. I've been lurking since Christmas and slowly pieced together my kit 100% from what I read here on this site. I had done some extract brewing with friends and...