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Eventually I got it cooled down and into containers. I had to scoop out the hops with my wife's colander and ladel out the wort, but . . . And I never got a gravity reading, and really don't know whether I got a stuck sparge or didn't use enough water . . . oh, well, it's old grain that may...

oh, I thought you meant 5.3mph . . . which doesn't even qualify as a breeze around here . . . gosh, I don't think I've *ever* measured ph on a mash . . . heck, I've only remembered both IG and OG on the same batch once . . . checked a few minutes ago, and only down to 110 . . . And as for hop...

It's cooling down. It seems I *started* the day with five regular size carboys, a smaller one, and a 7 gallon (I didn't realize I had that many), but one shattered in cleaning. And my cheesecloth bags turned out to be just cheesecloth from my stint with cheesemaking long ago. So loose hops...

wait, what? I miss a few years, and IPA *has* subcategories rather than *being* one, and there's a new language? MIAB? Missing In Action, Beer ? uhm, *find it!* and the timer just went off. Hopefully my mash is done.

ARGHHHH!!!! High winds. And they don't stop until midnight. Not even below 15 until 8pm . . . . I may do this anyway . . .

The kitchen, of course. Natural gas costs *far* less than propane! that, and you run through a tank *really* fast if you heat the water with it . . .

No, not the only way. I've long used a cooler. Put in the grain, add water for protein rest. Than put a plate or bowl or whatever on top to break the pour, and add boiling water in an amount calculated to reach mash temp. Hm, I have about 20 hours to remember the temperature I've always used...

uhm . . . long ago, in the distant past . . . I had never used anything but a gas stove, for anything. I visited a friend, and we made a batch. He killed the heat, and we went down to the basement for something or another. Leaving the kitchen, I put the lid on the pot, so that dust...

so you guys are saying that I can't take my 1991 tank in and just get it filled? :eek:

Yes, it's one of two of *those* batches. I know *exactly* what went *in* to this, but haven't been able to replicate the process. I've even done the post-rest late addition of oatmeal and applied boiling water, but no big mush (and *now*, I use a cooler large enough to handle it--normally, I...

we'll se if I'm able to use it again myself tomorrow . . . first, I have to rebuild some kegs. Tomorrow may actually use fermenters!

count me in. For the first time in years! I'll be hitting the store for yeast and keg rebuild kits this afternoon, as well as to grind my grain (yeah, I bring grain *to* a Homebrew store . . . and the owner gets to tell tales about a lunatic with 30 lbs of grain and a massive drill in the...

You also need to increase the spacing, ,or . . . if memory serves, removing a ball bearing gave me just what I needed.

It's not going to *ferment* faster, but it certainly saves you the labor--and finding time for the labor--for additional racking and carbonation. what's left to ferment after two days is "about right" on carbonation. the old recipes tend to call for placing caps on loosely, and sealing at two...

*Long* term planning. As in, when you buy your wife a refrigerator, think about her next one . . . and measure this one . . . So my beer refrigerator was, from the moment she got it, *known* to fit 4 kegs in the refrigerator side and two more in the freezer side . . . [ok, I'm still less...

I use a plastic screen bag, sold sometime in the past as a liner for a 5 or 6 gallon bucket. I toss whole hop flowers in it into a 15 gallon boil, and let it float. Stir from time to time.

some years ago . . . [fuzzy fading effect] . . . I made an oatmeal stout. And I forgot to include the oatmeal with the grain, and realized this when it was time to end the protein rest. So I dumped it on top and added the boiling water. Understand, this was a 13 gallon batch in a 48 qt...

slowpokes . . . I stopped using *primaries almost 25 years ago . . . I was in grand school, and getting a day with a friend to help took a lot of doing. So we kind of had do do a year's worth in a day . . . So simultaneously a 15 gallon back in the main system and 6 recirculating in the...

Having grown up around me brewing (I have a picture of her at 6 months happily sitting in the 8 gallon pot holding the big spoon the day I started [and another of one of her daughters the same age in the same pot!]), my daughter caught on to a lot, but not the science. Not having asked me and...

Back in the dark ages, I got a Corona mill. I quickly got a cheap $50 drill to run it, figuring out that replacing it every other years as I burnt it out was acceptable. Since I typically use 30 lbs, hand cranking isn't desirable . . . As it turned out, it lasted 7 years--at which point I...