Monk's Belgian Café is awsome but $
Independence Brew Pub is allwas a good stop i alwas used to sneak down for a few after jury duty
Nodding Head is another good stop
just made all grain verison of this
LME 3.5L 7lbs
steeping grains
flaked oats 1lb
Choc malt 350L .75lb
victory .75lbs
Crystal 80l .5lb
roasted barley .5lb
Hops
60min EKG for 40ibu's
yeast english ale of your choice i used s-04
i would say with that OG and temps you are almost at terminal gravity. i have a beer that i made Friday night used notty OG 1.055 it was at 1.009 today temp controlled at 65
Only way to be sure though is take a reading.
like the name might use it. Still not sleepy working on a grain bill for a stout atm.
Edit
well i hit a of OG 1.055 alittle higher then i was aiming for which i really dont like but i really dont like adding water ether.
Ran out of propane when i was heating up the strike water for the...
woke up from a nap that went to long so a thought why not brew.
making a Irish Red Ale
O.G. 1.051
6.50 lb Pale Malt
4.50 lb Munich Malt
0.25 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L
0.25 lb Caramunich Malt
60min hops
0.75 oz Williamette
0.75 oz Cascade
15min
0.50 oz Cascade
0.50 oz Williamette
I'm right with you on that i really don't care what my eff is into the BK as long as i can repeat it every time.
I think this a major factor for poorer eff a good amount of dead space at the bottom of the mash tun say 1/16" would be a Substantial amount of higher gravity wort not being...
68 is not bad at all i plan on 70 to 73 eff depending on my grain bill. I have found that the biggest factor for my system was evap rate getting the same amount of boil off each time witch is tricky when brewing out doors and in winter.
Looks like you where off 5 points preboil 4 after. So you...