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Didn't think about checking here first but made bread last week after an AG batch. I used a recipe from my bread machine and just substituted spent grain (pulsed a bit in a food processor) for the 7-grain cereal in the recipe. The wife said it was the best bread I've ever made and now for the...

I just made a batch with my new 10 gal round MLT. Not knowing my system yet I calculated my strike water temp and then heated the water 10 degrees hotter, added it to my tun to preheat and let the temp come down to strike temp (about 10 min). I missed my mash temp by 2 degrees but later...

Thanks again for the help, brewed yesterday and got 78% efficiency. I'm happy. Thought about using a newer hop but used Willamette instead. I've never used it before and wanted to see if I liked it. Now I think I need some brewing software to help out my organization but that's another...

Thanks for your input, I think I'm going to do a smash recipe with the 2-row and use a hop I don't normally use to taste the flavor of it. Being from the west coast I tend to use alot of Cascade, I mean alot of Cascade (hey, my wife's from Chico). As for pre boil gravity, is it proportional...

I've been brewing off and on for 22 years, almost exclusively partial mashes. I finally built a picnic cooler mash tun and am ready to try it out. For my first batch I was thinking of doing 10 lbs 2-row and no specialty grains to get a good idea of my system efficiency (5 gallon batch). It...