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It sounds like a 10-gallon pot works for a lot of heavy beers, with room to spare, but may be marginal for some. I have three beers that use table sugar, so they don't take up a lot of room. I think I would rather struggle with a 10-gallon pot, 22 pounds of grain, and 7 gallons of water than...

This is interesting, because when I got my water tested, I didn't take the results and multiply them to account for the water I'm boiling off. If a given figure is 5 units, and I'm boiling 7 gallons down to 5, then the water that ends up in the beer has 7 units.

I never really thought about maxing out the pot. The most grain I have used was 16.4 pounds, and that took around 7 gallons of mash water. It fit. Brewer's Friend seems to think I should have used closer to 5. I'm using 6-gallon Torpedos as fermenters. As for sparging, I just squeeze the bag. I...

I just dump it in the fermenting keg until it's as full as I want! Usually a bit over 5 gallons.

Really impressive. Makes me wonder what your wife made you let her spend upstairs in order to sign off on this.

I have an Update International 10-gallon stainless pot. I am a little disturbed to read that it's too small for heavy beers, because I had no problem making a few. Now I'm wondering if I'm living in a simulation or something. I moved to it from my Braumeister because the Braumeister is not good...

What does he need help with? What is he willing to spend? More accurately, how much does he THINK he's willing to spend? We'll just multiply that by 5 since we know how this works.

I second the Duotight/EVA recommendation. Way easier than the old tubing and clamps. A carbonation chart will help you figure out how much pressure you want at a given temperature. I'll upload one. Secondary regulators are great. I went with the conventional ones. I tried the Kegland Duotight...

Welcome. All-grain is not actually difficult. It's just more work. I agree that BIAB is the way to go. And forget the secondary. Ferment in a 6-gallon keg, and move to a 5-gallon keg. Makes brewing pretty easy for me. If you really want to make life easy, chill in your swimming pool.

I would rather search the house for half an hour to find an impact driver than spend 40 seconds turning a screw by hand.

When you pick up a crescent wrench at a flea market, you always have to check for those nail dents. I hate watching people abuse tools.

You can use this for your avatar. Bracc 2.

My cousin is a Commonwealth Attorney in Kentucky. A prosecutor. Unless things have changed, he shows up at people's houses with one Bud Light in his hand and the rest of the case under his arm. Personally, I think it makes more economic sense to buy cheap vodka and keep it in his pocket. That...

We had to step in when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

Google says the UK favors low-ABV beers, and it says the reduction you're talking about is the result of taxes on strong beer. I would never have guessed that cheap American beer was stronger than British beer. I always think of Europeans as hard core drunks.

Wait...Carlsberg was 3.8%? That's pretty frigging low already without going to 3.5%. I always assumed Carlsberg was beer. I've been told Bud is at 5.5%. If these other figures are true, Bud is practically vodka in comparison.

I still like 1.053! Anyway, we clarified something, so even if we can't be sure what's happening in the photo, we know how to read a hydrometer correctly. Maybe.

The North Korean regime has built a restaurant in Pyongyang, and in addition to food, it serves beer from around the world. This definitely makes up for the emaciated corpses littering the streets.

Yes. I think 1.5 would be too much.