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It smelled strongly of peanut butter and toasted grain, the two main aromas in said cereal. The strong peanut aroma came from artificial peanut butter flavoring and the peanut butter cups. Contrary to many suggestions/discussions you may see, I absolutely would not use peanut flour/powder. A...

I've brewed one beer so far with fatty fatty fat fats in it. There was a bunch of peanut butter cap'n crunch and some chocolate peanut butter cups involved. There was also a large amount of oats used in the brew. The body provided by the oats resulted in significant head/retention on the beer...

It came out... alright. The aroma coming from a glass of it is definitely a bowl of peanut butter cap'n crunch, but it comes off with noticeable alcohol, which is somewhat unpleasant here. I also think I made it a little too bitter. There's plenty of sugar remaining in it, so it starts off...

I've only used Chugger pumps, up until now. After having one of the pumps in my setup fail last brew day I figured I'd order a Riptide to replace it, and see whether the marketing fan fare was justified. The only drawback to the Riptide vs. a Chugger is the extra $60 you'll spend, but there...

To your concern about what happens adding the grain to the "over heated" water, the answer is not much. The temperature stabilizes quickly. The process of mashing is used to allow enzymes to convert compounds in the grain to other compounds. The most important part of the mashing process is...

I'm not seeing how this business is going to work. 1. You don't have wet hops year round. So what are you selling the other ~10 months of the year? Are you freezing the hops while they're wet and selling frozen blocks? 2. Shipping costs will be excessive. Whether actually fresh or a frozen...

Kink the hose as needed to get the right temp. Or use the maths I posted.

I'm not following why you can't control the flow rate of your chill water and your wort... A simple ball valve on the chill water is all you'd need. In any case, if your wort is coming out colder than you want to pitch at, then, simply, don't chill all your wort. If you have wort coming out...

Not reputable. You can look up "pasteurization time temperature table" on google and get back lots of results. At 145F, the lower end of feasible mash temps, it takes less than 4 minutes to kill sufficient micro organisms in beef to make it safe to eat. Irrelevant of sparging/sparge temps, if...

You aren't going to get enough wort out of a single mash. If you can't get a larger mash tun, you could get a second one and do two mashes at the same time.

It's definitely specific to where you are as that dictates the shipping rates. It probably doesn't apply if you are closer to one of their distribution centers. But in any case, 50 lbs of grain weighs 50lbs whether in 1 sack or 5 sacks. The whole "free" shipping thing is definitely just...

I always try to have a single hop, double dry hopped IPA on tap. For that beer: 7-8 days in conical for fermentation 1-2 days gradually lowering temperature to ~40F 3-5 days dry hop in conical keg it up with second dry hops in keg 3-5 days minimum before tapping, but I've generally found the...

Side note. 10lb bags of grain ship "free" from morebeer, 50 lb bags have shipping charges. The price of 5x 10lb bags with "free" shipping was less than a 50lb bag with shipping charges, despite the fact that the bags of grain they buy come in 50lbs and then they break them down into 10lb bags...

I usually go for about 55% wheat, the more wheat you use, the more wheat flavor you'll get in the beer. I also do 6% honey malt, I find the honey adds a complimentary flavor to wheat. You're also just mentioning wheat generically, not a specific type of wheat. My LHBS usually has about 4...

In the equation you're quoting, I presume r is the ratio by weight of grain to water. Since the ratio is provided, the exact weights are irrelevant.

This is what I do. Recommended approach if you don't want to bother with bottling and carbing via sugar

Beer is fermenting now. I hadn't planned on doing a boil, but the volume that came out of the mash was more than I expected. I didn't know how much would be absorbed by this bill. I also felt the flavor could use some concentration. The taste of the wort very much reminds me of generic...

Brewing in process. This is what the worlds dumbest grain bill looks like: This is what it looks like when you're dumping boxes of Cap'n Crunch into your mash tun: This is what ~11 gallons of the worlds dumbest grain bill looks like in your mash tun: This is what it looks like when...

I had a lot of trouble the first few times I attempted whirlpooling. I would get hop material stuck in the tubing/pump and the whirlpool would be a no go at that point. Eventually, I decided on straining out the hops before whirlpooling, and hence started using mesh bags and then hop spiders...

Just confirming from experience, fenugreek has a very similar aroma to maple syrup. I'm a fan of grinding some up along with the coffee beans in the mornings. Never brewed with it though.