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When summer camping trips revolve around the next stage in your process.

Rogue has a line of organic beers, you may be able to find where they are sourcing ingredients.

Does using glass make a difference when something like this occurs? Meaning one might actually be able to disinfect the glass, whereas the plastic will hold on to it?

Head retention

The Golden Hootch

Is it common to stir after the initial sach rest before your first runnings? I have only been doing that during batch sparge. After reading your posts it seems like it is a good idea to do it.

Payed for my water report. Which I also received today. Found out my water is great for stouts straight from the faucet.

I am new to all grain, and on my first batch I tried to check efficiency. My problem was not knowing what exact grain (MFG/specs) I had in my all grain brew kit to determine my exact potential sugar. So I knew my efficiency would be off to start with. From now on I will be getting grain from...

The diagram is a good start at getting an idea of the malt color level for whichever you malt are thinking about using. It might even be good enough for a brew only using a couple malts. From there if you want to get a more exact representation, or you are using a variety of malts, then I would...

Why not just add water then. [emoji23]

*Randy Mosher .....stupid autocorrect

The credit for that image goes to an author named Randy Mother. I was reading about malts last night in his book called Mastering Homebrew. The chapter covers the malt types very extensively and refers to this wheel.

There is brand of spices (I think McCormick) that came out with handful of limited release marinades made to work with specific types of beer. After trying them, I bough up a bunch since we love grilling and they taste delicious! I really like the Chipotle IPA, and and the stout one.

Thanks for your advice, I will look into the sugar balance as I am forming the grain bill.