Recent content by JeremiLC

Hello, I want to try your recipe for my next beer and I have a question about the fermentation. You left your batch in primary fermentation for 3 weeks before moving it to secondary and I usually left my beer in primary for 1 week before moving it to secondary. Is there a reason why you don't...

Ok explain like that, it's logical. As for the bag, so you don't try to have a grain bed at the bottom of the MLT to filter you mash? at which step you squeeze it? after the draining or after the sparging? or both?

Ok, I will use the calculators next time. But you're saying that I used maybe too many grains for the MLT size, is that right? Also, I used to squeeze the bag with my BIAB batches, but I don't use one for my batch in a MLT, do I need to?

Yes I did sparge to get to the volume needed to start the boil, but what was bothering me is that I was only able to drain 2 gallons before the sparge, and i'm suppose to have much more right? So I wonder if my method for recirculate the mash is the problem.

Hello, I tried last weekend to brew my first batch of beer with a mash tun, since I've only did by BIAB, and it didn't work really well. So let's get down to it First I builded myself a custom mash tun by modifying a 5 gallon cooler. I changed the spigot and added a bazooka screen. With that...