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Living in Wisconsin has enabled my craft beer drinking to go to new places that my wife would probably not want it to go. I love beer. I've really enjoyed sampling many different styles. I'm new to the homebrew scene. But excited to try my hand at making the nectar of the gods. Cheers

Oh yeah, I'm also on an electric coil stove top. The 95 mins was before the insulation. I'm brewing on Friday. I'll post my times after.

I was struggling with getting 6.5 gallons of water to boil and sustain a rolling boil. I could get it to boil if I placed the lid on top. However, I'd rather not do that. So I picked up some Reflectix from my local hardware store. It took 95 minutes to go from room temperature to 210ish...

GreatFermentations has a recipe called Braineater which is practically identical to the PM/Extract version on this thread. (Except they use LME and slightly less Citra) In their recipe it just calls for steeping the grains and not doing a mash. I'm assuming that if you just steep them that...

I've been reading this thread for a while and until I got to this post, I was under the impression that all of the grains and malts were steeped (not mashed). I had ordered the 1 lb of Munich and 1/2 lb of the Crystal, Carafoam, and Melanoidin to come in the same bag. Is this a...

How much wort then should I strive for if I want to yield 5 gallons of beer? Should I be trying to get 5.5 gallons of wort to account for loss to hops, trub, etc.? I'll be using leaf hops; and from what I've heard, it sounds like they absorb more water than pellets. Would 5.5 gallons of...

Forgot one more question, if I'm doing the extract version, how much priming sugar should I be using for the bottling?

Yes, my pot is 7.5 gallons. Great idea.

Hey guys, I'm just starting out. I've been reading and watching as much as I can to start my hobby of homebrew. I'm curious if I am doing a full-volume boil to get a desired 5-5.5 gallons of wort; how much water should I start off with? I know that after an hour, there would be (I'm...

Also, nice to be here. Cheers.

Disclaimer* - This will be my first brew. I understand that some of these questions may be dumb. But I have to ask them because I don't know.* Alright, so I've been reading this post the past couple of days and I haven't even gotten half-way yet. I'm done reading this novel of a post. So I...