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nilo posted an extract recipe here. He didn't include the spices (coriander & sweet orange peel), though - read a little of the rest of the thread and you'll find out what people are experimenting with in that regard.

This 50' immersion chiller is less than this 25' counterflow chiller. (I found two items from the same supplier for a better head-to-head comparison.)

A counter flow chiller is more expensive than an immersion chiller. It's basically a long copper tube inside of a garden hose. The wort flows through the copper tube in one direction, while cool/cold water flows through the garden hose, outside of the copper tube, in the other direction. The...

It gets the cold break out of your wort, which reduces the likelihood of chill haze. It's my understanding that most people consider chill haze to be strictly a visual flaw, having no impact on taste.

Another primitive beer, this one not so much based on a reformulated recipe but on an ingredient. Not incredibly authentic, but an interesting challenge. Does anyone know how they might be able to use 100% wheat malt (einkorn) and get proper conversion...

I think the "Brewing with joe" is a reference to his coffee cup... :drunk: :D

No screen or false bottom. It was aerated with a drill and a paint stirrer after diluted.

And those points are well taken. Thank you. I was in a bit of a rush right at the very end (trying to finish in time to get ready for my 20th high school reunion - I'm getting old!) and did not adjust for temperature. The last time I did adjust for temperature, it only made about a point's worth...

1. I didn't. I kind of thought about it on-the-fly during the process, but didn't do it because it wasn't on my previously prepared mental checklist. And, because I thought the extraction looked pretty good, and didn't think it would be a big deal. 2. Yep, that probably had an impact as well...

My next batch will be my first AG attempt. Watching this video convinced me that it's nothing to really be afraid of:

I'm meaning to say exactly what I said. I did a partial boil of concentrated wort and diluted it to the final volume. If I didn't use all of the concentrate because the Whirlfloc created a goopy mess that I didn't want to transfer to my fermenters, then my final product was more diluted. More...

Roughly a half a tablet at 10 minutes.

Good People Brewing out of Birmingham, AL (very limited distribution) cans some outstanding beer.

That's what I did the first time I used Whirlfloc. I did notice extra trub at the bottom of the fermenter when I racked to the bottling bucket. I haven't opened a bottle yet; they'll be ready this weekend. When I did it that way, I chilled with my immersion chiller down to about 80, transferred...

Saturday was a mixed bag of outcomes as far as brewing goes for me. The good news was that my new MLT seemed to work really well. It didn't leak, held temperature and filtered clear wort after ~2 quarts of vorlauf. The bad news was that I missed my gravity by about 8 points, and I don't think...

Tangential comment - I soak bottles for about 30 minutes in OxyClean. If the label isn't reasonably easy to remove at that point (if it takes more than about 20 seconds for the label and glue combined), I generally pitch that bottle. There are so many that are easy, I don't think it's worth my...

Kirkland Signature (eastern U.S., contract brewed by Saranac) - 2

Great Divide - 4 or 5 Back Forty - 5

This Saturday, I'll be brewing a double batch of Northern Brewer partial mash RyePA, and splitting it into two 5-gallon batches. I'll pitch US05 into one and S04 into the other.