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I'm crushing my own grain and it's quite coarse

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I'm not overly scientific with my brews. I use beer smith 2 The mash did seem light on the water but I went with what beer smith said. I believe beer smith automatically defaults to a 72% efficiency. I mashed for 60mins at 156 degrees. I then batch...

I have brewed the below recipe twice and in both occassions have way undershot on my preboil gravity. I fixed the situation by boiling down to my desired pre boil gravity before moving forward with hops, but don't want to have to waste that time going forward. Here is the recipe and process...

Thanks for the response For the sparge, I stopped only to take a gravity reading to make sure I was on target, i did not stop completely at 3.1, but I was expecting my gravity to be way higher than my expected pre boil gravity which is why it was so alarming when I saw it was so low and I was...

Hello, Brewed an IPA last night, it was my second all grain batch and the first recipe i created on my own. I decided to brew a smaller batch as a test (2.5) gallons. I am a beersmith user and used it to help get everything straight with my recipe I created a new equipment profile for the new...

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I've done both, and in both cases my beer fermented fine. I did have 2 batches in a row show no sign of fermentation which was alarming. After taking a hydro reading it turns out it was fine. Got a new fermenting bucket and the problem has been resolved. If you are re racking or bottling in the...

I have recently been reading up on different techniques for improving extract/PM brewing. A few of the tips I have been reading are quite interesting. Specifically full boil and Late extract addition Full Boil 1) will i need to adjust my hop quantity? 2) I assume that I should take...

Visible fermentation had not yet started. I shook it up and took another hydro reading and i'm at 1.048...big difference and more in line with what I was expecting as well as what beer smith says. Although I am certainly not an advanced brewer, I've brewed many batches including a few all...

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I am doing an extract batch, by sparging I simply mean I rinsed the grains after the steep. I steep 1lb of specialty grain and added 6 lbs of DME at boil As I look at the fermenter today, I can clearly see that there is a split in the liquid, almost like a...

I recently decided that I wanted to brew a pale ale, which I had not done before. I went to the local homebrew store which is also an actual microbrewery. I went without a recipe and asked if they could whip one up for me (big mistake) They sent me home with the following: 6lbs Plain Malt...

This is great advice. I will give it a little swirl and see what happens, regardless, I am close to racking to secondary anyways, but will take some gravity readings first. Thank you very much!!

About 3 weeks ago I made a 3 gallon batch of Cherry melomel, first time with this recipe. I am currently fermenting this with fruit in, in a 5 gallon bucket. I wanted to look in to see how the mead was coming along, and since I put the cover back on, the air lock has shown no activity at all...