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Thanks so much for all your help and comments everyone. Well, after a week of letting it ferment, I decided to check on it and see where we are at. I noticed that a good half-inch or so of solid material has fallen to the bottom of the fermenter and the beer itself no longer looks as thick...

I may not have been clear. I started the wort with 2 gallons of water. I then added about another 0.5 gallon when I was sparging the grain. So the boil had about 2.5 gallons total when I was adding extract and hops. Put it in the carboy after and bought the whole thing up to 5 gallons. But...

I'm a newbie brewer trying my second partial mash. This time I decided to make a black IPA. Everything seemed to be going really well until I started pouring the wort into the carboy through a brewing funnel with a built-in filter. The beer was barely trickling through the funnel into the...