Recent content by thomas_marbach

So whenever I bottle my beer I just use priming sugar and in two weeks I'm good. But I'm brewing for the head table at my cousins wedding and they want the beer in growlers but that would mean a longer time to get the beer to the right carbonation level. Time I don't have. Could I just regularly...

Oh I definitely had to throw away almost a gallon and a half of wort because I couldn't send it through the lines. I'm 100% sure that my connects are the issue here. The inside of them is so small that they're just getting clogged as j get closer to the bottom of the tank.

I chill my wort with my therminator and its a pretty steady flow up until the end when I get to the bottom of the kettle. But now that I think about it, the connectors I use seem to be causing most of the problem. I'll just take that into account next week and get new connectors and should be...

So you just transfer everything from your boil kettle into your fermenter and take the trub and sediment into account?

So when you transfer into your fermenter you just transfer everything from your boil kettle and just let the sediment settle and just take all that into account?

I lost not even half a gallon to evaporation. By the end of the boil I had close to 6 gallons. I could only transfer close to 4 to my fermenting bucket because there was so much sediment that I couldn't get the liquid through the connectors I use. I could maybe ditch the quick connectors and go...

I brewed a batch today and started out with 11 gallons of water in my hot liquor tank. I used 4 gallons of water in my mash (1.25 quarts of water per pound of grain) of which I had 11 pounds. After the mash rest I had just under 8 gallons of water left to sparge with. I ended up with 6 gallons...

I've brewed 4 all grain batches to date and every single time, no matter how much water I start with I can never get more than 4 gallons. (Trying to do 5 gallon batches.) I know how much water I need for my mash, depending on how much my grain bill is. But after that I have absolutely not idea...

How did it turn out? I would love to try that recipe myself. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew