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:) brew dat tomorrow.. im pumped

is their a procedure i need to follow before i brew in my new stainless steel pot like with aluminum pots? i did a search and couldnt find anything.

that is a dream come true. im not sure because i am new to brewing and only been to my lhbs once (40mins away order stuff online) but im pretty positive that 15gal brew kettle you have there is worth more than what you payed for everything.

wow. that's awesome. im jealous. how did you come about this deal? craigslist? i've seen brew kettles like the big one there at my lhbs for like 350+ dollars.

i have done nothing but run bottles through dishwasher twice without soap/sanitizer and steam dried them with no problems.

Im quoting from Septembers issue of BYO magazine Garrett Oliver (Brewmaster Brooklyn Brewery) on Pitching Yeast "A beer from a struggling fermentation has a certain flavor. It's one of the main things that tends to distinguish what a professional might say is a homebrew flavor. In most cases if...

Well, im just about to brew my first partial saturday and i too have directions from austinhomebrew.com that look very similar to yours and have too been using deathbrewers stickied thread to trouble shoot. For the sparge my recipe says 1quart water/2lbs grain heat to 170f and pour over grain -...

I'm brewing saturday and going to do this + freeze some water after i boil it before hand to throw directly into the wort - http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter7-4.html ^That is what John Palmer has to say edit: thanks Jlem! that is awesome.

Yea, i could spring for a turkey fryer but i live in an apartment and dont want to set up a bunch of brew equipment in the shared grass areas. my only option would be to brew at a friend or family members house and then transport the wort.

cool - i actually sent deathbrewer a couple private messages and he suggested the same thing - i think i will definitely end up splitting the boil. when you do that though - do you add all the extract/hops to the same pot or split that to? i would assume it wouldn't make a difference either...

yes, i straddled the burners on a brew i did before - however im not sure how much that actually helped - perhaps i will do another experiment later tonight or tomorrow and see the difference. thanks:mug:

well if i was doing an all extract kit i would do 3 gallons but im doing a partial so i will have the sparge and the steeping water to take into account - not sure how much steeping water i will be using but i imagine it will be about 2 gallons and than the sparge water will also be about 2...

In prep for my brew day saturday and my first partial i decided to see just how long it would take to boil water on my gas stove. I put 4.5 gallons of water into my brew pot and cranked on the burner. It took between 90 and 100 mins to reach boil. I figure i will be boiling less than 4.5...

is 45,000 BTUs enough - the store right by my house has this in stock and i plan to brew saturday. http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xkw/R-202038907/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

Well what i want to do to minimize prep time is buy a few gallons of mineral water and freeze them. i would assume you use a sterile blade of some sort to cut the plastic from around the cube but was looking for some guidance.

im curious as to how you get the big chunk of ice out of the bottle to throw into the wort. do you cut the bottle open with a sanitized box cutter or something?

im gearing up to brew my first partial as soon as the kit arrives from AHB (chocolate orange holiday ale) - this is very very helpful - thank you

very helpful. I think im going to order the mini mash DME Juniper Rye (01940) and Chocolate Orange Holiday Ale(05128) kits.

looking to brew my first partial soon - looking for a good kit i can order online. trying to brew a brown ale, also trying to brew a christmas beer. still new to brewing so recipes that limit ingredients would be nice but either way i can probably manage. thanks

Ross :ban::mug::rockin::drunk: figured there was only one boyd in asheville you going to MRJF IV?