Recent content by reggofcal

I am harvesting about 1500 acres of sorghum and was looking for good sorghum beer reciepe? I have read it is bitter tasting and most people go gluten free when brewing sorghum beer. I don't care about gluten free I just want a good solid tasting dipa or something along those lines.

I had a beer hydrometer but when I went to brew today it fell and broke:eek::smack: but I have a alchol meter for liqour, Can I read gravitys with a alchol meter, if so whats the conversion? I would go buy anew hydrometer but brew shop is 1 1/2 hour drive round trip.

I did a 5 gal nut brown ale and got around 7% with a British yeast strain and then put distillers yeast in a gallon of the nut brown and it only got around 6 %. I don't understand why the distillers yeast was lower abv.

I have been buying hoppy beers and some Russian stouts that the abv is anywhere from 11% to 14%.how do they get there abv that high?i usually gate 8% at most.

Sweet thanks for the insight

I will search and read up on sparging

So I should run hot water over the grains

The grains looked crushed to me As for the mash tun I put grains in ice chest, pour heated water in there and bring it up to temp I want, stir it around, close lid cover with blankets and put anchor on top. After an hour I open drain plug striaght in to boil keg.rinse remaining grain with...

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How can I get better efficiency ?

I doubled the amount, so how do I have such bad efficiency?

10.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US 73.64 % 1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L 7.36 % (they use 45L, but i could only find 40L) 1.00 lb Wheat Malt 7.36 % 0.25 lb Special Roast 1.84 % 0.08 lb Roasted 1.25 lb Honey (Flame out) Sugar 9.20 %

I took took the Og after I boiled and cooled to pitch the yeast is this wrong way to do it?

Yes the readings are right, but I do mash in a ice chest and when I took temp reading to drain it the it dropped from 154 to 142 in a hour does that matter?

i watched them run it through the grinder machine, but after they crushed it I got called out to work for two weeks and couldnt brew it tell then.Will letting the grain sit in a bag crushed in a closet fo two weeks mess it up? MY BAD IT WAS 24 .82 POUNDS OF GRAIN