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Yep! Definitely settled out after 10 minutes of rolling boil; thanks :mug:

So there is a HBT get-together every year right??? :tank:

I do and I know it... but she also knows I'm The Dude :D I take the responsibility of my wife and children very seriously; there's been ups and downs for our 8 years of marriage... but it's mellowed out over time to be a great brew (pun intended). I couldn't imagine a better gal in my life...

I think I equate it because of the balance of caring/worrying too much versus RDWHAHB. I think I'll be good in the end... it's just that something has always gone wrong for these first 3 batches, and I think I have not struck the balance between what I wrote in the first sentence. In the...

This batch just may well turn into something amazing, something terrible or in-between (insightful I know). I thought for sure I ordered scale on my last order, but I put the items in the shopping cart 5 times and never ordered and probably didn't put the scale in on the actual order. So now...

If the source is pure (get the docs on what's in the water), I'd say you have a better source than many. Go for it, but maybe don't add any after boil.

I oddly agree... skim it and drink it... probably won't kill you if there's alcohol in there. Edit: My opinion is just that, and is not an FDA approved diagnosis to cure or treat any illness or supplement a healthy individual.

Wow, all great replies; LMAO dogphish... priceless and a definite sig in the making. I owned an IT consultant business for the past 8 years, in the final stages of a sale of intangible assets, and the company I became the CIO for bought the tangible assets. I'm very good at a lot of things...

Well I think I'm going to go ahead and start boiling the wort. It's 9:55 now and I started at 5pm, so I have a lot invested in this. The best green light is that after this second mash, it tastes like a lactating nipple (sorry if that's inappropriate or offensive, but this is exactly the case...

Thanks! Will order this ASAP as I like the manual method (worked well on my first two batches), as opposed to my general laziness with the floating therm on this batch. I like fast manual :D

How long is the probe? Do you clip it or physically insert as needed?

So I just admitted to my wife that she'd probably be a better brewer than me (and she agreed). I'm very good at cooking, baking, DIY, etc. but I've never been the greatest at having a green thumb, and I see brewing similar to having a green thumb. She did agree to brew the next batch...

It would be helpful to know what you do to keep the temps constant. I had no problems during my first two brews, but the conditions today proved much more difficult and I find as we get cooler (it gets negative here daily), how I should best control the temps in a garage. I had better success on...

Exactly; I knew I didn't control my temps well due to the ambient temp and 35mph winds, so I look at the iodine test as a good indication of where I'm at right now and what I need to rectify to turn this brew into a potential success.

Thanks! Will be on my Amazon list tomorrow :ban:

That's too high for a strike temp (I think that's the correct term)?

I really need to read up on what actually happens during the mash. I had a very hard time controlling mash temp today due to the lower overall ambient temps coupled with 35mph wind, so it changed from 140F to 160F.

Hmm... I only had a 1 pound bag of two-row (this was my first time doing a non-kit and it required 6 oz so I bout a 1 pound bag); now I only have about another 7 oz left but I suppose I'll dump that right in! Learning experience :o

My mash and wort pot are the same. My process is: 1) Mash in 8 gallon pot for 60-90 minutes with 2 gallons of water until iodine test passes. 2) Sparge in 5 gallon pot for 15-30 minutes (45 this time) with 1.5 gallons of water. 3) Combine mash and sparge water together in 8 gallon pot, and top...

I just added more two-row to aid in enzyme activity in case bringing the mash/wort to full boil, and then cooling, would have destroyed any enzyme activity left. Doing the second mash now. Grain Bill: 3.5 pounds of organic White Wheat Malt 6 ounces of organic German Munich Malt 3 pounds of...