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I need to thank Ewalk02 for bringing up the subject of water quality. It should have its own subject heading. Below is the water data from Ames,IA. Its supposed to have some of the best city water in the country. I know our Microbrewery in town, Olde Main, chose Ames for the water. Let me...

In addition to adding ice directly to the wort I also placed the pots in an ice-salt slurry. I'll have to tell you how it turns out.

My SG ended up being 1.049, actually higher than midwest said it would be (1.044-1.046). I haven't calculated my efficiency but with that SG I don't think it ended up being terrible. I should note I did approx 3 separate sparges of about 4L each, since I only got about 2 gal from my strike...

Does Safale 05 compact real well? I've heard it end up being like cement after a few days, did you notice much sediment in your bottles?

So I tried my first attempt at AG brewing last weekend with a liberty cream all kit from Midwest. I live in an apartment so using a propane burner for the full boil is not practical for me. I built a rectangular mash tun and batch sparged. I split the full boil between two pots, a 16 qt and...