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That's what I was thinking. Hopefully it works, I'm ready to have homebrew on tap again. It's been too long.

Long story short have a pale ale that's been in my kegerator cold crashing for about three months. Gonna go ahead and put it in the keg and see what happens but Amy thoughts on whether it's still good or not?

This was the grain bill

Brewed yesterday and tried a couple little changes. Added some pH 5.2 stabilizer to the mash and slowed the sparge way down. Needless to say 15 lbs of grain ended up with a 1.074. I know its a lot better just have to calculate the actual efficiency.

11lbs american pale 2 row 3lbs american rye 1lb caramel/crystal 60l .5lb carapils I was supposed to have a half pound of rice hulls but had a brain fart and forgot to mix them in.

As far as the grain used the next batch I do I'll post a pic and get opinions. I don't have any left from the last batch. I have been using 1.25 quarts per gallon and mashing in at about 172 degrees which puts me usually between 152-154 in the mash run. I add the grain in about 2 pound...

As in they are not milling the grain fine enough? Should I still slow the sparge rate down?

No the store here does the grain for me. The time is probably my issue. Maybe took 25 min to sparge to my 6.5 gallons for boil.

So this is probably the 3rd all grain batch on my new system and I can't seem to get my efficiency above about 64%. Did a rye IPA batch last night which didn't notice till after but the recipe was at a 78% efficiency so I shot low on my starting gravity. I am using a fly sparge for my system and...

For the price you can't beat the system listed. Home depots ge systems anywhere from 60-200 depending on filters.

Filter system it is. Gonna head to home depot now. Thanks for the input.

Probably a dumb question but I have searched and cannot seem to find a definitive answer. This is only my third all grain batch and up until now have always bought gallon jugs of spring water for brewing. Its become a pain due to the extra water needed for all grain. Anyway pulled up my local...

What is it?

First all grain batch on my new rig and everything went about perfect. Its an IPA and SG 1.074 and after the primary it was at 1.012. Racked into the secondary. I forgot the dry hops I was going to use so it sat for about two days. Put the pellets in a nylon bag that I sanitized like always and...

Thanks guys. In the fridge now so we will see how it does this weekend.