Recent content by NastyBoyBrew

I think I'm going to try single stage fermentation and dry hop in the bucket at 10 days and bottle no more than 2 weeks after that. Thanks to everyone for the help and I'll let ya know how it turns out.

I apologize for not being more specific with my question. The reading that I have done on this forum indicates that a one stage fermented beer with sufficient clarification can be done at a month+ but (as far as I can tell) an IPA in fermentation should be dry hopped at around 10 days and...

I've read of a lot of people on here doing one stage fermenting with beers that will not ferment as quickly as an IPA. I was wondering if anyone out there has done this with an IPA dry hopped at 10 days?

I think I'm getting the hang of it. The top up water is for sure what was throwing me off. Thanks a lot everyone!

I must have switched some numbers somewhere Fuzz but even if I had your numbers I would still be confused as to how I'm supposed to boil 6.5 gal in a 5 gal pot. Also could you post a pic of the default numbers for the 5 gal pot? I don't think there's a reset anywhere. Thanks so much for the help...

I still don't really understand why the automatic calculation for the boil volume would be close to 2X what the pot could possibly hold. My batch size is set at 4 gal, boil off at 2.14 gal and my auto calculation for boil volume is still 8.67

Hi everyone this is my first post here on Homebrewtalk and would like to thank anyone that helps in advance for their time. I have been reading up on the how tos of beersmith for a while and thought I would go ahead and try to enter the numbers for my first beersmith batch. I select the "Pot...