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I was getting ready to add my two cents, but this post pretty much echoes my thoughts exactly. I buy big sacks of base malt and try to plan about three brews ahead when ordering specialty malts. I used to get everything pre milled, but it's nice not feeling like I'm racing the clock on freshness...

Don't know if you've heard, but it's customary to send a bottle of wine to the first three people who respond to your introduction post:cool:.... Just kidding. Welcome to the forum!

That looks great, but I can barely look at food right now. Kinda overdid it today.

The sweetness of that thing is off the charts! Time to start buttering up my 3d printing friends.

Sounds cool. If your "friend" ever makes one, take pictures of it.

I'm afraid you have a point.

As I sampled my late (and frankly unimpressive) Oktoberfest brew last night, I decided to quiz my children on their beer knowledge since I'm always talking about this stuff and would like for them to be well rounded and equipped in case they want to pursue these things when they're older. "What...

Careful putting stuff like this on the internet! There WILL be protesters. :p

Yep! I can't believe I haven't shared this yet. We've got a bunch of big rectangular cake pans from my wife's old baking business. I took one that would cover the kettle completely and hang over by quite a bit and filled a bunch of holes right in the center that would drain liquid into the...

Yes weird.... also you might be a sorcerer.

Never done it, but have had the same idea. I was hung up on how much to use also. Would love to hear someone chime in on this. Wouldn't be surprised if @Yooper had some wisdom on this.

We had our first three daughters one right after the other, which resulted in a couple of years of countless sippy cups half full of juice going MIA at various times. Periodically my wife or I would find one under a bed or tucked in a toy box that had been missing for weeks. We were always...

Yep! We own several semis and tri axle dump trucks. After a few thousand miles, you don't even touch the clutch pedal anymore. :cool:

Beautiful. Great find on those "s" hooks! I like that better than the oven rack.

You're going to have a lot of people tell you not to transfer to secondary and avoid the oxidation that can happen there. I agree. You can dry hop and cold crash in primary without any negative effects. I usually start my diacetyl rest a couple of days after fermentation has really slowed down...

I've actually been doing this too, and like it. Whoops, read it again and need to edit. I've actually been lifting the bag and quickly moving it to a bucket after it's drained awhile. Squeeze bag in bucket, then dump that in kettle later.

I've always thought about getting one of those turkey fryer steamer baskets and setting it on an old oven rack over my kettle to do something like this. I've also thought of just drilling a million holes in the bottom of an old turkey fryer kettle and doing the same thing. Just haven't got...

I've never tried that, but it sounds like it should work if you want to try. As far as figuring amounts goes, if you don't already have recipe software, download one of the free apps and enter your ingredients. You can play around with the amount of DME on there until you get the numbers you're...

Couldn't agree more.

Everything went great. I'm not even a little surprised. My wife is just the best. (It will be a little hard to swallow though if this winds up being the best beer to come out of our little brewery yet.) I actually got home in time for chilling and yeast pitch. I grabbed a refractometer reading...