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Yeah, sorry I didn't specify. I bottle. In the future I'll get to kegging, but that's still in the distant future. Maybe I should do a taste test to determine which, if either, tastes better, corn sugar or DME. Yes...yes...I think I'll experiment...

Does anyone prime with 50% corn sugar and 50% DME? Is there any reason not to do this? Is there any possible benefit to doing this? The thought occured to me this afternoon thinking that your carbonation would come up faster but you'd still get to keep some of the malty goodness of using DME...

Have you brewed this yet jacarson83? If so, how'd it turn out?

I dont think there are enough fermentables in to make it a wizenbock. It looks to me to be a dunkelweizen.

Hi All. I took a shot of the grain before mashing. Does this look right?

Yikes, that's a spicy meatball of sparge water. So by those numbers, with a 7.5 gallon boil kettle, I can't really go over 9 lbs of grain if we are assuming a mash volume of 1.25 qt/lb. I guess that's alright for most beers though. I'll have to come up with something clever if I ever try to...

I was going off the post by RichBrewer: And David_42: That's what lead me to the 8-9 gallons of wort pre-boil.

:off: It's really poor manners to hijack someone else's thread.:off: So, anyway, is there a rule as to the amount of sparge water one needs in relation to the amount of grain when batch sparging? If I had 14.5 pounds of grain, and mashed at 1.25 qt/lb, then I have 4.5 gallons in the...

So then what's the rule for how much wort to collect per pound? Is it .66 gallons per pound of grain? I can boil down pretty quick since it's so dry here in Colorado typically. In my hour long boil yesterday, my 7 gallons of wort went down to a little over 5.

I only have a 7.5 gallon pot so I collected a little over 7 gallons and boiled it down to a little over 5, which I used to take my reading. My sparge was one sparge with 3.5 gallons only. Would I have been better served if I did two 1.25 gallon sparges? So if my pot is only 7.5 gallons...

My first two AGs have been what I perceive to be low efficency brews, on the order of about 60%. The one I did today came out to be 58%. So, that being said, what sort of efficency is normal? Just so you now what I did this time around: 12 lbs of British 2 row plus about 2.5 lbs of...

Thanks for that link Blender. The grain I get from the LHBS is not that uniform or fine. The individual grains are mostly cracked, but not all of them. I'd say that 35% of the whole grains are not cracked. But that's probably less then 10% of the total grain mass. Well, I don't have the...

...how much wood could a woodchuck chuck...Don't Do What Donnie Don't Does... Anyway, I'm gonna be brewing my second AG this weekend, a christmas beer. My grains are gound at the LHBS cause they have an elecric mill they let me use. However, last time the grind seemed awfully coarse to me...

I believe that is similar to decoction mashing, except you don't get any grain in your boiled runnings. I think that's where a lot of the flavor benefits come from decoction mashing (boiling the whole grains to attain the next step temp). But hell, I've only done one AG so I'm no expert. :)

So if your runnings should be clear, what does cloudy runnings indicate? Lots of starch still to be converted? Ot is it simply ineffective grain bed filtering?

Just a quick question: Just how clear should your runnings be while drawing off your wort from the mash? Should it just be free of grain fragments and hulls, or should it be crystal clear like a finished beer? I've never been very clear on that. Thanks!

Thanks for the responses. I did not do an iodine test for full conversion. I will do that next time and give a longer sacc rest next time. I'm a bit confused about how adding more sparge water would help. If my batch sparge runnings are low, won't adding another gallon or two of water to...

Oh, one other thing I remembered. During the protein rest, my probe thermometer leveled at 122 until I stired it at about 15 min and then the level rose to 125, so i'm wondering if there were hotspots in the mash tun. Could that contribute to such a poor efficency?

Hi There, Over the weekend I did my first all grain brew. While that's exciting and all, I got really really low efficency (about 60%) :( . My OG was 1.044 while my target was 1.054. So while I think it'll still taste good, I have an unintentioned light beer. Since I had 7.5# of...

Hi there! As the clock ticks down to my first AG brew on Saturday, I'm wondering about the importance of grain bed depth when batch sparging. I built my mashing and lauter tun out of a 48 qt coleman cooler. In retrospect that seems pretty big. My recipe for this first go-round uses 10...