Recent content by jad814

Haha small world, I'm in Cranberry Twp. I saw Super Juicy was on the last couple weeks but I couldn't get over there unfortunately. JuJu is my fav DIPA for sure (that I've had that is remotely reasonably able to be acquired), thus the inspiration here.

I stand corrected here. I see now that the site I used (http://www.brewersfriend.com/brewhouse-efficiency/), offers the ability to put various volumes and gravity readings in to calculate various "efficiency" metrics. "Pre Boil Efficiency" - 78% "Brewhouse Efficiency" - 60%

Wow... I just calculated mine to 78%. Perhaps I'll more seriously consider milling my own grain in a shorter time-frame than I already was.

Been busy to follow-up, but brew day went really well with the exception of a couple procedural (I suspect) matters: 1. I have yet to do an all grain brew where I come reasonably close to my calculated OG (calculated via software). I fell a good 0.014-0.016 low of my target on this run (after...

I know this is the 3rd or 4th time I've said "this is where I landed" but honestly this is where I landed after trying to accommodate advice and staying in line with what I'm hoping for: 87% 2row 5% crystal 40 5% carapils 3% dextrose Brew day tomorrow bright and early in the quite cold...

Awesome! Thanks again for all the time and advice.

Thanks for the advice! Do you mind sharing %s of your base, flaked wheat, etc?

Personally, with hindsight I think you may have been lucky you didn't find the 1/2". I think it could have went substantially more smoothly with the narrower diameter pipe. I ended up aborting mission, and ended up building a single coil traditional chiller with a good 40-45' of pipe, and then...

Thank you very much for sharing this. My grain order is/was already placed for this batch, so I'll give this a go this round, taste, and go from there now that I'm able to brew much more regularly. I appreciate all of the help and advice.

I played with my recipe a bit more yielding to the feedback (thanks to you all again by the way). I'm going with 90% base, 10% Crystal 40/20/10 to get the color estimate I'm after. I also doubled down on the dry hops too for the big aroma/nose. The projected OG/FG gives me very close to what...

Thanks! I really appreciate the help.

Out of curiosity (and I totally understand using smaller amount of a higher Crystal for the color), can you help me understand why "too much" crystal is no good? I'm not challenging that, and truth be told the only reason I was using a mix of 20 and 10 is because I was just trying to stay as...

What do you guys think if, malt wise, I did something like 2 Row - 13lb (bumped up from original) C20 - 1lb C10 - 1lb Via BrewToad, the OG, FG, and Color are estimating extremely close to the beer I'm modeling after. Then, I plan to measure the OG pre-boil and if it's meaningfully lower than...

Thank you for your feedback. I'm glad you mentioned the hop-related aspect. I had posted what I "did" originally, but this next go round rest-assured I was moving that entire 30minute hop addition to the 5minute additions to make them a full ounce each (mostly just because I realize it was...

I used White Labs WLP051 (California V Ale Yeast)