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I am harvesting about 1500 acres of sorghum and was looking for good sorghum beer reciepe? I have read it is bitter tasting and most people go gluten free when brewing sorghum beer. I don't care about gluten free I just want a good solid tasting dipa or something along those lines.

I had a beer hydrometer but when I went to brew today it fell and broke:eek::smack: but I have a alchol meter for liqour, Can I read gravitys with a alchol meter, if so whats the conversion? I would go buy anew hydrometer but brew shop is 1 1/2 hour drive round trip.

I did a 5 gal nut brown ale and got around 7% with a British yeast strain and then put distillers yeast in a gallon of the nut brown and it only got around 6 %. I don't understand why the distillers yeast was lower abv.

I have been buying hoppy beers and some Russian stouts that the abv is anywhere from 11% to 14%.how do they get there abv that high?i usually gate 8% at most.

Sweet thanks for the insight

I will search and read up on sparging

So I should run hot water over the grains

The grains looked crushed to me As for the mash tun I put grains in ice chest, pour heated water in there and bring it up to temp I want, stir it around, close lid cover with blankets and put anchor on top. After an hour I open drain plug striaght in to boil keg.rinse remaining grain with...

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How can I get better efficiency ?

I doubled the amount, so how do I have such bad efficiency?

10.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US 73.64 % 1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L 7.36 % (they use 45L, but i could only find 40L) 1.00 lb Wheat Malt 7.36 % 0.25 lb Special Roast 1.84 % 0.08 lb Roasted 1.25 lb Honey (Flame out) Sugar 9.20 %

I took took the Og after I boiled and cooled to pitch the yeast is this wrong way to do it?

Yes the readings are right, but I do mash in a ice chest and when I took temp reading to drain it the it dropped from 154 to 142 in a hour does that matter?

i watched them run it through the grinder machine, but after they crushed it I got called out to work for two weeks and couldnt brew it tell then.Will letting the grain sit in a bag crushed in a closet fo two weeks mess it up? MY BAD IT WAS 24 .82 POUNDS OF GRAIN

i watched them run it through the grinder machine, but after they crushed it I got called out to work for two weeks and couldnt brew it tell then.Will letting the grain sit in a bag crushed in a closet fo two weeks mess it up? my bad it was 25 pounds not 35.

10 gal batch 34.82 pounds of grains reciepe also added 2.5 pounds honey at flame out

no had homebrewshop do it.

the reciepe is ag and the og was suppost to be 1.075 and fg was suppost to be 1.018 so it should come out to 7.5%, i dont know what i did wrong? I hit the target mash temp and time and the boil went smooth.So my grains must not have been right or what?

I brewed my beer og 1.045 and fg is 1.005 so thats about 5.25% is there any way I can rack it again and add boiled down sugar or honey to get to 7%? Will the yeast awaking to eat the sugar or maybe honey? Or is there another way?