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    National Homebrewer's Conference - HomeBrewTalk Giveaway - Open to All!

    watching the world cup. wish I could say actually brewing but I'm waiting on parts.
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    Calories

    Here's a formula I found on the interwebs for counting calories that I use in a custom spreadsheet. Total Calories = CalAlc + CalCarb Calculating Calories from Alcohol CalAlc= =1881.22*(FG)*(OG-FG)/(1.775-OG) Calculating Calories from Carbs CalCarb= 3550*(FG)*((0.1808*OG)+(0.8192*FG)-1.0004...
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    Bitter american pale!!

    If your using a refractometer for your final gravity you will need to use a calculator to figure out the true specific gravity. Google "refractometer calculator". Sean Terrill has a good one. You will need to convert the specific gravity you measure to Brix though. Using Sean's calculator I...
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    BYO BoGo List of 'wanters' 50/50 splits

    Sent MaltedLiver a pm since he is next up.
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    Free beer software?

    +1 Brewmate. Makes scaling recipes very easy.
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    All Grain For First Batch?

    I did all grain from the startups I'm in the just do it camp. Some tips. Be patient. It takes a couple of brews to figure out your process and get comfortable with your equipment. Take excellent notes. You will need them to figure out your temperatures and volumes. Don't sweat the small...
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    what efficiency do you get and what do use to get it?

    This is all for mash efficiency. My volumes are fairly accurate. I started out batch sparging and getting 65-75%. Had a stuck sparge which forced me to switch to fly-sparging and efficiency jumped into mid 80% side note both were dark ales. Low efficiency problem solved. Nope, I brewed a...
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    Mash Tun Question

    I brewed this weekend and for the first time with my false bottom didn't have a stuck/slow sparge. I did everything I normally do and even forgot to add rice hulls. The only change I did was to take a length of tubing and slice it length wise. Using the slice tubing I lined the false bottom...
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