Recent content by Mikelush78

Another question for you guys, I have been brewing 5 - 6 gallon batches I would pour the cooled wort through a strainer to get rid of the unwanted... How do you guys do it with the Keggle? Is a false bottom good for this or no? So straining is my question now :)

Great feedback guys thanks! I think I will upgrade the IC to thicker to be 1/2" like Spartan has sounds like a good plan... Mine is smaller diameter and also only 25' so that will helps for sure... Thanks guys!

Well I have been brewing with a turkey fryer for a year now and wanted to up my game to be able to brew 10 gallon batches now. Got a keg this weekend and cut the top off it to use it as my kettle. No drain valve on it yet but that is soon to come with a false bottom. My question to others...

woozy, your the man! Thanks for that info!

I also Like the double batch sparge, might do that next time also.. makes sense to me... cant hurt

I stirred the mash every 15 min on my first all grain batch and lost about 4 or 5 degrees total, so I read a lot of people say don't stir it so this time I did not stir. ok I understand now I want to get the mash up to 175 by adding the boiling water... This also makes a lot of sense and...

I have just completed my 3rd all grain batch and got an efficiency of 66%. I know that is low for most but that is my highest so far! Want to get that better so I will explain what I did and you can point out the errors in my way! I bought a new Barley Crusher and set the gap to .030 (had...

Thanks guys

Ok thanks, any tricks you have on getting clear beer int he End?

When I am cooling my wart I use my wart chiller. I have found that it cools much faster if I stir the wart. However I am not sure if that is hurting me in the long run of trying to get clear beer? Should I be stirring the wart to help cool it faster or should I let the wart chiller do that...

I used the rest of the DME I had on hand and now have it at 1.036... should I go get more DME or add Sugar or go get more DME from the store or scrap it?

good thought, thanks

I have a refractometer and regular tester and they both read it... Really don't want to scrap the batch, any other thoughts on salvage... I have not pitched yeast yet... I'll do it if that is what must be done however i dont want to really do that obviously

Wht do I do? was making a all grain American Pale Ale, my 2nd all grain batch. first came out great this one I used the mill at the store and I thing it did a horrible job milling, I noticed it but am still a rookie so did the brew anyway. Should I boil some sugar to raise the Gravity Reading?

Hello guys, New to all grain and want to make a nice easy drinking summer wheat beer. After looking at all the recipes I could find I came up with this one, Curious what you guys think or might suggest for changes... This is for a 5 gallon batch... I used BeerFormulator to make this...