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I would say that sparging took maybe 30 minutes? We didn't keep track of the time, which we should of. We are using a home building spinning fly sparge out of brass tubes. It did stop spinning at times when the water level in the HLT was low, but we kept it spinning the best we could, I don't...

Yeah I am leaning towards a combination of poorly ground grain and an error in our sparging and/or sparge temp. We started to sparge at 170degrees but we turned off the burner, so the temp could of dropped a lot by the time we finished sparging. We used Belguim Abbey 11 Wyeast 1762, and...

Thanks for the quick replies everyone, getting this feedback is awesome. So after we cooled the wort and took our shocking gravity test, I right away tested the hydrometer and it measured correctly, 1.000 in water, also cross checked our thermometer with thermometer on the fermenter and they...

Where did we go wrong? This weekend my brother and tested out our new 3 tiered gravity brew setup with brewing a high gravity imperial stout. The recipe was suppose to be a 1.093 OG, but we only hit 1.050 @ 78 degrees. It is a 10 gallon all grain recipe. We have been brewing for the last 3-4...

There are tons of great brew pubs in seattle and the puget sound area. Pubs in Seattle: Brouwers in fremont 74th st Ale house in Phinney Ridge Elysian in green lake/tangletown Breweries in Seattle: Fremont brewing in fremont Two Beers Brewing sodo Black Raven in Redmond American...

Corona was my very first beer and I still do enjoy it, its a great fresh light beer, but.......I cant remember the last time I bought some, maybe cinco de mayo several years ago.

I just transfered a batch of IPA to my 5 gal carboy that I dry hopped with 1oz of amarillo hops 3 days ago. This is my first batch that I dry hopped. I have noticed that the hops in the beer have "settled" half way up in the car boy and the beer above is a little lighter then the beer below...

At least 2-3 12oz beers a night, sometimes less sometimes more.

I pitched the yeast into a batch at 11:55pm december 31 2010.

I was wondering if anyone brews smaller batches to mess around with different recipes. I would like to experiment with different recipes but dont always want to make 5 gallons just incase the beer doesnt turn out. Figured I could just cut the recipe in half but thought maybe someone here has...

Hello, I just joined the site, I'm not new to beer but I am to home brewing, Ive made one batch of home brew with my second in the primary fermentation phase as we speak. Since I started homebrewing a few months ago its really been a blast learning how to brew. I now have a new appriciation to...