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I am interested in that too because I did exactly the same thing on my first and only play with these enzymes and had absolutely no good reason for doing it at all! It just 'felt right' to let the yeast do it's thing on the ordinary wort first. It is fun to get a gravity reading of the FG...

Most of the time my water is coming from Hetch Hetchy and there is very little of anything in it (see links in my original post) apart from all that nasty chloramine. RO is the obvious solution but truth be told I am probably quite happy that it varies occasionally. Testing it on brew day...

And I just double checked the manufacturer's spec. sheet for the malt. It was Briess Ashburne malt which lists a fine grind extract of 79%. As previously noted my calculations assumed 80%, so the 72% I got should maybe be promoted to 73%, but it is still the lowest I have ever seen.

To try and answer that I have just been back through my logs and spreadsheet that collates all these numbers. It turns out that mash is the only occasion I have ever noted "very coarse crush" in the comments column. In fact looking at my log book it is actually the only time I have ever felt...

No hoist for me. I have a false bottom (stainless steel veg steamer) sitting in the bottom of a fermentor bucket and I drop the grain bag in on top of that. By half way through the boil there are a couple of inches of drippings in the bottom of the bucket that can be transferred to the kettle...

Well I can give you my numbers. Take with a pinch of salt because there are so many other variables, but here are the mash conversion efficiencies for the last few mashes I did... Major online retailer because they had a sale so cheap I couldn't help myself. Lots of whole grains visible in the...

At the risk of going off topic, do you have that now and having success? I have a 50' stainless chiller and pretty disappointed with it. It is only 3/8" rather than 1/2".

I keep changing my mind. Every day I seem to blow back and forth between being keen and not. I'd love to spend some time playing with this. One of the biggest appeals would be trying out all sorts of crazy and less crazy ideas. Anything from outlandish experiments to trying to go for absolute...

From the original post: "Shorter grain bed will reduce your efficiency". Why? Most of the other points in the original post are well explained whereas this is just presented as fact and I cannot see anyone in the thread disagree. I can imagine that it could make temperature control more...

Thanks to everyone for your input. It has been enlightening. My main conclusions are * Few people have actively monitored their water over an extended period to quantify the changes. I am not sure if I should be proud of myself or embarrassed? * Single source supplies, particularly deep wells...

I am interested. My first reaction when I looked at this was that very high ABV could be the go. I was thinking of dry white and sparkling wines which are all typically up around 12% somewhere. That said I am no fan of big beers in general. I much prefer to keep everything well below 6%, but I...

Speaking as a Brit myself I will happily accept your suggestion that we produce great malt. I certainly do not, but it is nice to imagine my compatriots know what they are doing. I doubt it often enough. I agree on the price. I don't expect buying direct will be any cheaper than retail at all...

Thanks, 6tap. That's good news. At the moment I have grain left for one batch and then I'll be giving them a call.

It's good to hear you say that. That was my experience. I spent quite a lot of time working on building one a few years ago and never really solved that problem. Sticky krausen was one problem which I got around by having the hydrometer 100% submerged, floating up from a tether string to the...

So if I win, does that mean I no longer get to store all my recipes in an enormous pile of wort-stained scraps of paper?

Has anyone been to Admiral Maltings in Alameda, CA? I like the idea of using locally grown and malted grain. I sent a message to them via their web page query form asking if they could sell in single sack quantities direct from the malthouse door, but never got a reply. I can well understand if...

Those are really nice data. Thanks for posting.

Be assured you are way ahead of me. It's my first year with Nugget and Centennial and there is not a single flower/cone to be seen anywhere.

Well, it works for them on the ISS!

So you are seeing up to a factor of two on your well water. That's useful. Thanks for the feedback.