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What gets me about this calculation is that the volume of beer is presumably the volume of beer that actually ends up in the bottling bucket but if you put the sugar solution in the bottling bucket first how can you tell how much beer is going to end up in the bottling bucket ahead of time?

Thanks guys. I did actually preheat my cooler but maybe next time I will leave the preheating water in a little longer. Plus the cooler has this annoying venting "port" that doesn't stay down half the time, so I might tape that down next time as well. I have read mention of swamp coolers on...

It's been almost a week now since I conducted my first brew day and I have finally got some time to post my experience to the forum. So for those of you interested in a bit of a laugh here goes. Type: New Albion Pale Ale Clone (American Pale Ale) Batch size: 1 Gallon Grain bill: 2lb 2-row...

Hi all, Got my first batch of home brew in my 1 gallon jug currently fermenting. Initially I was going to take a hydrometer reading at 3 weeks and then, as long as the FG was close to the expected FG, I was going to bottle. Having read a bit more on the forum this week however it seems that...

Was thinking about just using my boil pot but that is even bigger (~10L or 3 Gallons) so was even more worried about whether it would be too big for the small mash! :o I kind of like the idea of getting a cooler anyhow as I figure it can do double duty as a container for bulk priming when the...

Hi all, Planning my first batch of homebrew and doing a 1 Gallon batch. The recipe I am using calls for 2 lbs of 2-row malt mashed in 2.8L (~3 Quarts) of water. I am looking at getting a 7.6L (2 Gallon) cooler to use for mashing in a bag but am slightly worried this might be too big for the...