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Has anyone tried this to avoid sediment issues? http://www.williamsbrewing.com/CLEAR-BEER-DRAUGHT-SYSTEM-P3612.aspx

Great job Cider! Congratulation on your brew.

I've had promising results cooling down to 125 (post boil) and doing a whirlpool for about 20 min. To get the temp down quickly in the post boil I recirculate through my plate chiller with the cooling water on as usual, when I get down to temp I just turn the cooling water off and continue to...

Remember while the IBUs won't change that much the bittering profile is going to change quite a bit; its a little different to think about but a FWH IBU is much smoother than a boil addition IBU. This is a good place to start but know it may take a few brews to get the right balance of FWH...

A lot of people, including me, use one of these grill grates on top of the burner, its large enough for a keggle to sit on and they're pretty cheap. Works very well...

Would agree with others on 10 gal batches in 15 gal kettle. I mash with 12 gallons and go from there. This usually leaves me 4 or 5 gallons short, I do a quick sparge in my fermenter bucket, works really well. Cheers!

My feedback would be that you can probably skip the vorlauf step. I recirculate through the mash as you described and get 85% efficiency; the crush will make the difference. To be clear (no pun intended) the vorlauf won't make your beer any clearer; it will make your wort clearer, but all...

I'm in!

These work pretty well on the red disposable cylinders. http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/regulator-for-disposable-oxygen-cylinder.html

Joined group. brewcycle69 - bsikes

Take a look at BIAB, you only need one 10 gallon pot to start and can go from there.

Nice job Matt! Did you change your crush at all?

Great project. Absolutely interested.

I was using a cooler mash tun before I started BIAB. You'll see some difference in clarity of wort going into the fermenter. Coming out of the fermenter you'll see no difference in clarity, no difference in quality. I'm getting a little better efficiency with BIAB 86% vs 82%. Being a...

Hi Goldbread, welcome to the forum! Good place to start is the IPA Recipe Database; you can follow one of the recipes there or look through them and see what kind of grains and hops are being used. Most of the recipes will be for 5 or 10 gallon batches, you'll need to convert them down to...

Last couple of times I dry hopped I had 10 of the very strong magnets, I put 5 in a baggie in with my hops, the other 5 I used on the outside of my plastic fermentation bucket. The attraction was strong enough I could use the outside magnets to slowly pull the hop bag to the bottom of the...

Kind of like the Keebler Elves wanting to put regulations on homemade cookies.

If you really want to understand water chemistry you should re-post this in the Brew Science forum. Some really great people over there that are very knowledgeable, they will explain it to you at any level you need.

Of course if you went the BIAB route you'd only need one. :mug:

Those burners work well for 5 gallon batches, you probably want something bigger for 10 gallon batches. These are popular (http://www.homebrewing.org/High-Pressure-Cast-Iron-BANJO-Burner-_p_1746.html) and will get you boiling in about half the time. Higher cost vs more time is the...