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I’m in

There's always the stove

These are the two recipes I came up with now that I've had a few minutes to sit down with Beersmith. I know from experience that my mash efficiency tends to be low, so I compensated by adding a few pounds of Pale malt to each recipe. Recipe: SMaSH Centennial Pale Ale Brewer: Kevin Inman...

I actually didn't think about that until just now:rockin:

Hey all, After taking about a year off from brewing (twins!!!), my wonderful wife is giving me a day to brew as a father's day present. As it has been a while and because I was getting a little carried away with gimmicks and additions with my previous batches (jalepeno cream ale), I wanted to...

Nothing like SNPA

Thanks for all the helpful advice. I'm starting to reconsider pitching onto the yeast cake. I'm thinking about pulling some of the slurry out, maybe 2 cups worth (based on the calculations in Bob's thread) and saving that in the fridge until I brew on Thursday. Will that work/ be sufficient...

After some careful consideration, here's my revised recipe: Boil Size: 5.70 gal Post Boil Volume: 5.20 gal Batch Size (fermenter): 5.00 gal Bottling Volume: 5.00 gal Estimated OG: 1.057 SG Estimated Color: 4.2 SRM Estimated IBU: 23.6 IBUs Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 % Est Mash Efficiency...

Thanks for the replies. I feel like an idiot. Where is that in the instructions?

I have the Bayou Classic SP10. I've only done two boils on it so far but I have no complaints. I'm using LP and haven't had a problem getting 6 gallons of wort up to a boil. I also use it to bring strike water up to temp. My kettle has a built-in thermometer so as long as I'm watching when...

I got a portable refractometer with ATC as a Christmas gift. It only measures in Brix. I began using it exclusively....big mistake! I did my first wine over the winter (after also receiving a wine making kit for Christmas from the in-laws). It was supposed to get down to get down to 2.6 Brix...

I had the same thing happen about a month ago with my first all grain batch. Not sure how much hose water I ended up with in my beautiful Pale Ale wort. I decided to just go with the flow and pitched the yeast. When it was all said and done, it didn't have as much hop flavor as I was hoping...

Not sure if a mystery ingredient is going to work with this one. I'm shooting for something pretty specific because I want to reuse my yeast cake. I'm thinking we should plan a "mystery brew day" for next month...or we could do a "Mystery October Fest" brew, or even a "Mystery Holiday" brew to...

My Dubbel started out at 1.063 and is supposed to end somewhere in the 1.008 range. Do you think dumping another 1.064 beer on top of that yeast will be asking it to do too much?

Thanks for the feedback. I'll mess around with those suggestions in beersmith and see what it does. I was nervous to use too much sugar, but maybe I'll bump it up to a pound and reduce the carapils to offset it.