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Atvar, that's what I'm afraid of. Pulling the bag out without dumping some of the contents first seems difficult at best. Glad your way works, but man I bet it was a PITA.

thanks Golddiggie! the more and more I think about this, the more I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and get a 10 gallon cooler and make a mash tun and just go single infusion sparging. My water was boiling, not simmering, but it wasn't boiling over or anything. I lost 2.11 gallons...

I'm about to do a big beer, using DeathBrewer's method. My grain bill is 17.25lbs and i'm double checking my water loss tonight, but I believe its 2.5 gallons in 60 minutes from a full batch boil I ran the numbers in promash If I use the 1.25qt water per 1lb grain I end up needing 5.39...

i'm gonna shutup now :) , you gave me a the info i should have searched for with the reference to deathbrewer BIAB.. i'm reading it now, please disregard my denseness.

but my problem would be getting the wort out of the pot after. I've been using a grain bag exclusively. can i still do that with that much grain? sorry for the edumacation of a newb that you are graciously putting up with.

I just ran it through beer tools, and if i had 7lbs of pils and 7lbs of pale, .75lb each of special b, aromatic, caramunich, .5lbs each of torrified wheat and melanoidin then I'm roughly where I was with the the lme. But that 17lbs of grain.. That seems like a bunch for 6 gallons of water...

Well I have a 9 gallon pot, so I have no idea how much grain i can actually put in the pot with 6 gallons of water. I know that I can put 5 in and dunk it around like a teabag pretty easily. I sort of doubt that I can get enough grain in the pot too use all grain for this particular recipe...

Nateo, For a partial mash, is 10.25lbs of grain too much in comparison to 5.5lbs of LME? Heck, i'm damn near doing all grain weights in a mini-mash with these numbers. Thanks!

It may be dark but I wouldn't call it cloudy. i just want to take out the haze from the beer so that its clear. The pic you show is a pretty bright beer. You can see the underside of the head clearly through the beer. if it wasn't bright like that you wouldn't be able to see the individual...

Thanks a lot! I will give it a go and see how it turns out. I guess the only problem with testing different ways is that it takes so darn long to really know how a beer will finish out when its this big. I'm guessing I'll have a full 6 months before I can really be able to judge the effort...

Nateo, I left in the specialty malts. Do you think this is still too complex? I need to finish the book before i actually brew this. Again, I appreciate the constructive criticism. Wolfgang's Black Heart - Dark Strong Ale Author: Tony McAnally Category: 18 - Belgian Strong Ale Subcategory...

and as i should have fully expected, the beer is perfect. 3.5 weeks after bottling and its absolutely amazing.

Thanks for the constructive criticism. I'll rework it again and post back later this evening. I really do appreciate the help.

Ok, lets try this again (and thanks for your assistance) Its still pretty complicated but I set it for an 85% attenuation Minimash Recipe Kettle Volume: 6.75 gal (S.G.: 1.071) Boil Duration: 1 hr Evaporation: 2.0 gal Water Volume Added: .7 gal Final Volume: 5.26 gal (S.G.: 1.091)...

Haha, I'm on the first chapter of Brew Like a Monk right now. :)

Thanks for the links! I'm having a hard time adjusting ingredients to get the ABV high enough without ending up with a high FG. even without the speciality grains, its still up around 1.020 which is the upper 1/3 of the style 1.010-1.024

true that.. but i still wonder if a glass bottle of water broke in a package that you shipped if they couldn't try to come back and get you to be responsible for damaging another package... i bet there's something in the fine print somewhere to that effect.

Hi All, I've never developed my own recipe before, so I took a look at summersolstice's recipe for the Chimay Blue and made a couple modifications. I really don't know what I'm doing so any help in reviewing my changes would be appreciated. summersolstice's recipe was a little low on OG...

sounds like a CYA. Since FedEx is a private company, the only thing they could do would be to turn it over to the ATF. I think the ATF would snore at it and hit the circular file cabinet. That's a lot of BS that would have to happen. Now, the one thing I could see happen is if your...

It looks like if i add 1.5lb of Pale LME and drop the white wheat from 3lb to 1lb, I can keep the color within guidelines and not use so much wheat. Again, I simply don't know what I'm doing here or what the effects of these changes really will be. Thanks