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60 minute mash rest as well

Thanks guys the beer is looking normal now and has fermented great. I was just a little worried there for a little. I've seen the cold break before just not that much. Thanks again for the info.

It was 4 gallons strike water at 165. Which once I added the grains it was at 154. Then it was about 6 gallons sparging at 170. With sparging I petty much sprinkled the water on top just to keep my liquid level above the grains. Then once I got my pre-boil volume I stopped.

The recipe is a stone ruination clone recipe. 14.6 pounds 2 row and 1 pound crystal 20L. Then 2.25 ounces magnum and 1.5 ounce centennal. It was a 90 minute boil. I do stir during the mash and the sparging. No I don't recirculate.

I'm just getting into all grain brewing. And I'm wondering why my gravity is lower. How long should sparging take. The beer I brewed yesterday was suppose to have a gravity of 1.078. The gravity I got was 1.064. I know it's not a big deal it will just have less alcohol. But I just want to know...

Ok cool. I've seen it before just not this much. It was like that since I started the wort chilling. I'm not concerned about cleaning the system is brand new and I cleaned the crap out of everything before I started. Cause there was oil and stuff from drilling so I really had to scrub and...

It looked like that before I even pinched the yeast yesterday so I don't think it's from fermentation.

I brewed this beer yesterday and the is just so much seperation in there. There cap floating around and I don't know what I would of done wrong. This was my first batch of beer in the new system I made.

I'm just curious. I'm new to brewing and this is the first recipe I've made. I'm making a kolsch and I looked into ingredients online. So I mix some of the ingredients together to see if it will turn out right. So I'm wondering do you guys think this will be a good kolsch beer. Are there any...

Ya I have a kegerator that takes commercial kegs. It fits up to a half barrel in it. I have all the lines co2 bottle and everything else that a kegerator comes with. I look into them style kegs. Thanks

I'm looking into getting a Homebrew keg and I have a few questions. 1) I have a kegerator set up already, I have to CO2 tank, tower, lines for the tower and gas. And a standard keg tap. So what else do I need other than the Corni keg. 2) how do you put the beer into the keg. I know this might...

How do you calculate your IBUs! I'm new to home brewing so I don't know how to do that

The weather here right now is too cold it's only 10 degrees out. I do have a kegerator but there's a keg in it right now so my bucket won't fit.

By the way I have to maintain the 35-43 degrees for at least 3 weeks

I just brew a Vienna lager and just realized that in order to lager it it has to be at a low temp. Need some tips on how to keep my beer cool. Nothing crazy expensive either. Right now I have my fermenter sitting in a container with water in it. And every so often I have to add ice to it. It's...