Recent content by tkanscholl

hello. today i ran a full all grain batch in my partial mash system. i normally have been getting 70% or less efficiency. today when i ran it through. i pulled out 82% efficiency. I changed a few things in my system and a few techniques. Normally i have been using just a large muslin...

Today i did a batch of scottish ale using the countertop partial mash technique from byo. I need some help figuring out how to increase the efficiencies I mashed in with 2.91 lbs of grain at a 1.375 quarts to lbs water ratio. I was shooting for a mash temp of 158 so i had the mash...

i am getting ready to start a scottish ale recipe based on the 60/ recipe in brewing classic styles. here is the recipe 2 lbs of light dme .6lbs of Crystal malt(40) .3 lbs of honey malt(18) .15lbs Crystal malt(120) 1.7 oz pale chocolate .5 lbs of base 2row This is for a 3 gallon...

i need a little more advice. it has been over a week in the primary and i took a hydrometer reading as i put it into the secondary. I was 1.021 should i pitch more yeast to bring it down further?

Well update on the recipe i added sterilized water up to 4 gallons which brought the og down to 1.036. It has been fermenting almost a week. when i pulled a sample on yesterday and tasted it, it was a very roasty flavor but seemed a bit thin

i was thinking of increasing the size to maybe 3 to 4 gallons

i was able to pull a sample and chill it enough to get a hydrometer reading. its 1.063

the grain bill is 3.3 golden light lme .5lb caramel 40l .25lb honey malt .13 caramel 120l 1.5lb pale chocolate malt

i think i just messed up. i was converting a scottish ale down to a 2.5 gallon recipe from a 5.5 gallon. the mistake was when i asked the homebrew shop owner to pull my grain bill. i asked for 1.5 lbs of pale chocolate instead of 1.5 oz. Can anyone tell me what it would do to my scottish...

what i was going to do was mash the 2row and the specialty grains in 3 quarts of water at 155. then sparge off into my brewpot. adding the dme at the last 15 mins of the boil. Hopping was going to be 1 oz of williamette hops for 45 min.

hello i found this recipe online and im tweaking the fermentables a bit. the original recipe is 6.6 lbs amber extract lme, 1.5 lbs dark dme, .5lb chocolate malt, .5 lb crystal malt, .25 lb of Black patent malt. For a 5 gallon batch what im thinking of changing it to besides doing a 2.5...