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Hi, We just completed our second all-grain and the efficiency seems to be so high I would like someone to check my understanding/math. Batch 1: Grain Bill: 20 lb 2-Row 1.2 lb Crystal 60 1.5 lb Choc Malt Mash in 7 gal for 90 min 10 Gal fly sparge over 65 min Collected 13 gal...

Northern brewer. Not a big deal on the assembly I think it was just screwing the hopper on. Might have been something else - my son put it together while I was building the MLT manifold. Would have liked some instructions but seems like the default setting gave me a great crush. I don't want...

Oops, got my BC in this weekend - unassembled an no instructions. Did my first AG Sunday without any prep. I don't recall any visible oils on the rollers. Had great effiency with factory settings.

I recently brewed Biermunchers Sterling Gold (extract version) https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f62/sterling-gold-3-5-ag-light-zesty-57183/ and love it. I have my AG setup now and want to brew a 10 gallon All Grain batch. I have briess 2 row in bulk and my LBHS said the only difference will be the...

Thanks for your comments. Just to confirm about #1 - this applies to beer that has been bottled & carbonated and is waiting to be consumed, right? I ask because the answer seemed more directed at a batch of yeast, not the yeast contained in bottled beer.

1) The proprietors of my LBHS assert that wide temperature changes can stress or damage the yeast in bottled - already carbonated - beer rendering it bad. Not skunk as in sun light exposure - but damaged or ruptured yeast cells leading to off flavors or worse - un-drinkable beer. This came up...

All, I bottled today. No skunk smell and the taste was as expected. So based on david_42's comment on skunking not being progressive the beer will be ok. I confirmed this by independent research as well. For anyone that wants more details, there is a live skunk exercise on youtube. The...

So, just when I think I've started go get my act together I do something stupid. On Wednesday I move Beerific's Kolsch from primary to a secondary for a few days clearing before bottling. Its Saturday and I went to move the secondary to the back deck to take advantage of the cooler temperature...

While I'll defer to those with more experience - I think you can cold crash in the primary. Some seasoned brewers don't even use secondaries for many of their brews. I have a porter that hit TG a last week and will be in primary 3 weeks on thursday. I'm going to move primary bucket to the...

I have a Kolsch (Cinco De Mayo, by Beerific) from HBT recipes that I think was intended to be a quick Grain to glass brew. My plans are 7-10 days in primary (depending on grav) and then 7-10b days in secondary. If your bottling I think you are safe to cold crash a 3-7 days in a secondary for...

+1 on the paint straining bags. Much better than grain bags at LBHS IMHO.

Revvy (and all) If you take plenty of time in the primary (10+days) AND you hit your anticipated final gravity - is 3 subsequent identical hydrometer readings really necessary? I used to do this, but since I've slowed down some I just wait until I hit the FG and wait 3 days.

Definitely get a hose clamp. I bought a chiller (price of chiller at my LBHS was only marginally more expensive than the copper) and it had plastic hose clamps. Three times the inlet blew off where it attached to the chiller. I finally rummaged through the garage until I found a small steel...

Sorry - I'll confess to be a little be lazy (just for this post I promise). Its 100+ pages long, but I did skim for 10 minutes here and there. It almost so unwieldy to be useful (MHO) I am looking at the mrbeer site. I can buy the 2 gallon fermenters for $10 a piece which might be what I...

Home Brew Kit/ Beer I currently have 3 fermenters and 3 carboys. There have been times I thought about smaller sample brews. Anyone familiar enough with Mr Beer equipment to offer a comment on this? Thanks in advance.

TY - I knew I would cut the DME back with the addition of the 2 Row.

According to BeerTools 5.5 pushes the SG to 61, 5 puts the SG around 58, so I guess it could go either way. I favor lower ABV beers so I may stay with 5. The mistake in mash may not be Palmer or Zainasheff - I don't know where the extract recipe came from. If I wanted to add some 2 row to...

Hi, Please comment on the extract conversion of this recipe. I would like to do an extract version of Jamil's award winning AG recipe for his oatmeal stout (Untitled). I'll summarize his AG ingredients and my extract conversion to make it easier to comment. Also, I want to use yeast I...

Thanks for the upload. I have a couple of comments. This is remarkably similar to (and likely the inspiration) for a an extract recipe (below) my sons and I brewed up when we first started. My son's are huge "Youngs Double Choc" fans and found this somewhere on the net. It was our 2nd or...

Totally forgot what day it was until my son wrote the date on the top of our American IPA we bottled today. 2009 is starting out right! Happy Brew Year everyone.