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I am from Nebraska (grew up on a farm) and several years ago wanted to try making a corn beer. (it was my first all grain and a total disaster of a process) I malted 5 lbs of corn straight from the bin, then I ran it through our cracker after it was dry enough. I mixed this with 5 lbs of 2 row...

I just did my first 10 gal on sat and I noticed the same thing and was way low on my mash temp 150 vs 156 which is what I wanted. Didn't really know why because with the same set up ,but doing a 5.5 gal batch my strike temps at 165 worked great. But the day was kind of a cluster so I just...

I have a phil mill, mash in a 10 gal cooler about 90 min, have false bottom, do not mash out, fly sparge about 1 hour or so, stop at 1.008. Eff usually 84-88% have hit in the 90-92% range a couple times. Like the set up I have for 5.5 gal, but could move to 10 and will most likely soon.

Actually, the sugars are in a solution and you cannot separate it by that technique, if you did spin it, you would only get out the sediment (husks, debris) so the beer would be very clear, but no more concentrated. The only way to concentrate the wort is by boiling, I think they make extract...