Recent content by fatsputin

1. I haven't looked into water chemistry at all, looks complicated. I do have a water filter that should be removing chloramines. 2. I do an occasional stir, but will be doing that more often going forward, I'll start doing 90 minute mashes as well. I run my grain through my mill twice, i...

Hello everybody. So i took the advice from this thread and have done 3 more batches. My efficiency has been averaging in the mid sixties. My current process is roughly around 5 lbs of 2-row depending on recipe about 8-12oz of specialty malt 3 gallons of water at 156, kept at that temp for 1 hr...

Thanks everybody for the great advice! I'll try it again tomorrow using these suggestions

From my own research prior to attempting my brew i had thought that when you put your bag of grains in the kettle it shouldn't be at the full boil volume, even if you aren't sparging. IDK why that would be that case but i had thought i read that. Is that wrong?

I did not sparge. I suppose that i should have as the grain bill was probably a little light. 1.036 estimated OG using the brewer's friend recipe calculator

The grains were ordered crushed from northern brewer, and the bag wasnt super compact, had enough room that some grains were freely floating on the top. Im using a 4 gal electric kettle however, so there wasn't a ton of room either.

Hello all I have been brewing for about a year, extract only until this week. I did my first BIAB recipe, 3 gallon batch consisting of -4lb rahr 2-row malt -4oz briess caramel 60L -4oz biscuit malt 0.5 oz citra at 60 min. I put all of my grains in my bag, lowered in kettle and kept at 156 for 1...