I'm slowly building up a very similar system right now. I am planning to use a second kettle for the MLT and use my cooler to store the sparge water. So at your Step 4, I would transfer 180F water from HLT/BK to the cooler, then fly sparge directly from the MLT to my empty HLT/BK. That does...
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I am planning to make the porter from this recipe (Black Butte Porter). When I enter the ingredients into BrewersFriend, it has my estimated OG at 1.071 and estimated FG at 1.024 while the recipe shows both of those numbers lower. Some questions:
Is 1.024 too high for a beer to...