Recent content by jmc21986

So my friend and I are doing our first 10 gallon batch and I have a couple questions. What is a common pre boil volume and I want to use safale05 would I use 2 packets? I want to do a yeast starter from a American ale strain I harvested from my last batch but my stir plate isn't working.

I plan on different worts with the same yeast. Thank you this was very helpful

Is it possible to over pitch? I want to do a couple 1 gallon test beers and didn't know if its bad to pitch too much yeast?

If I top up with water wont that affect my abv?

So recently my brew partner has been complaining about brewing a 5 gallon batch and splitting it as usual. He wants to do 10 gallon batches and split them. Problem is I only have a 10 gallon brew kettle and I don't want to invest in another one right now. How can I do a 10 gallon batch of all...

Thank you that helps out a lot

Does anybody out there have an illustration or have an idea with how to wiring a stir plate. I tried different ways and can't seem to get it to work. Please help...

I'm have a lot of trouble wiring my stir plate. I need help with how to wire from a fan toggle switch and potentiometer with a power source. I'm clueless. Thanks.

So I was curious if I could use a pilsner malt instead of a normal 2 row base malt in an IPA or different ales to get more of a malty flavor in my beer?

So I'm bottling my cider today and need to know how much priming sugars to use for a 3 gallon batch?

When dry hopping do you just throw the hops right in or do you use some kind of strain bag or filter bag?

OK thank you for the helpful information

So I'm going to transfer my sierra Nevada american pale ale clone to the secondary vessel. I've heard of people harvesting from the primary fermenter and some people doing from the secondary. What is best? Thanks

I'm in Avon lake and am always looking for help/ company when brewing