Lately I've been getting pretty good boil gravities - in the neighborhood of 75-80% efficient. The weird part is that my OGs consistently come out to about 65% efficiency, so it seems that my initial measurements must be off, and that my efficiency really is still not good.
I use the...
I recently attempted a Dreadnaught clone from "The Best of Brew Your Own" and it calls for fermentation with Wyeast 1968 English ESB yeast.
It's in bottles now, and it tastes pretty good, but there was definitely something "off" about it. I took it to my LHBS where they told me I had big...
Rice hulls could save the day! I got a stuck sparge once and hated my life, so now I make about 1% of my grain bill rice hulls and have had happy sparges ever since.
I've been reading this forum for a little while - this definitely seems to be the place to be for good homebrew information!
I am a relative new comer, I started homebrewing the week after I turned 21 last summer. I now brew most batches all grain. I brew about twice a week, thanks to a...