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Are you planning on making a fire in smoke box and cooking with indirect heat?

Smoking meat is my other hobby take a picture. The next step up from electric is using charcoal as a heat source and adding wood chunks for smoke. The ultimate way is stick burning where you only burn wood for heat and flavor. The key is good combustion and thin blue smoke chocking the fire...

Thinking trying to male a 10 gallon no sparge batch to save some time. Its been tough finding time to brew these days I have a dedicated herms vessel and a 120qt cooler mash tun. My thoughts are putting all water in mash tun the night before and setting a timer so water is heated up ready...

Are the fittings all stainless?

Does that false bottom fit well? Does it cover wall to wall?

Finally decided to get rid of my aluminum kettle and mash tun. I took it apart and noticed rusting around the hole for my valves. I usually make 15 gallon batches and just ordered a 120 qt concord pot for my kettle and I plan on using all stainless to connect the valve Now to decide on the...

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I notice if the tap sits for a while I get a lot of gunk on the faucet. How often to you clean the faucets

Thanks, I am also surprised that I am not getting that nice bready malt character I would expect with that much vienna, maybe that will come through as the beer ages

I was shooting for 1.057 with 25 IBU BU/GU of 0.44

Made my first Octoberfest using 32% pilsner malt, 40% Vienna malt, 6% caramunich, 20% Munich malt 2% aromatic malt Wlp833 26 IBU hallertauer 90 min 3 IBU hallertauer 20 min For some reason boiled off more than I hoped for and ended up with 1.060 OG and beer Finished around 1.014 IBU was...

Were on WV do you live I lived in Berkley county for 3 years

You need to get the FG down sounds like you still have some fermentable sugar left in the finished beer. Regardless with dry yeast or liquid yeast use pitch calculator and pitch yeast cooler pitch at 65 you cam raise the temp once fermentation slows down

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I actually get that flavor from great lakes dortmunder gold

I once made a belgian blonde and split batches into three carboys with 3 different yeasts wlp500, wlp500 and T58. From what I read T58 is dry version of wlp500. I could barley drink the batch with T58 it was terrible nothing like its liquid counterpart

Yes I use pure O2 might try what you did pitch mid 60's leave it for a day or 2 and let it free rise

I am going to try this clone again the last couple times I tried to make it I could not get it down past 1.015. The only think I didnt do is add the servomyces. I have the wyeast nutrient also has zinc I am going to try that. Might also try mashing a little lower or adding the sugar during...