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Yes I use 168 degree water, my coolers hold the temp right around 150-152. I do use one batch sparge and I do give a good stir before I start my drain. I drain quote slow also. I believe most of my issue was with my mill as it was set way way off. I really appreciate all of the device.

I have a system that I use for my wine, the vinmetrica sc-300. It works quite well. Thank again for all of your help.

Thank you. That helped a lot.

Okay, so I live in Savannah where we have ground water as our main water source. I was looking through John Palmers book where he talks about ppm this and ppm that. I pulled Savannah water report and neither calcium or magnesium is listed. He said that along with mash pH, having correct ppm this...

How do you measure and adjust your mash ph?

I checked my mill and the "factory" setting were way off. One was at .050 and the other side was at .030

It turned out excellent! I decided not to dry hop it. I couldnt keep my friends out of it. They drained my keg within a week!

Thank you for the clarification. Thats what I figured. But it doesnt hurt to ask. I will probably start running my grains through my mill twice and see if that helps any.

Also, I know this is a huge newbie question, but can someone explain the difference to me about using "medium body, light body, or full body" and how to determine which to use for which beer?

As of right now I am batch sparging. I have my beersmith set up as such (single infusion, medium body, batch sparge) Drain mash tun before sparging is selected. I just ordered a RIMS system. I believe it may be my crush. I have a monster mill 3.0. But it is set at factory settings I havent...

I've been brewing for about a year now and have been brewing mainly AG batches almost since the beginning. For some reason according to beersmith I'm only hitting around 55-60% efficiency. I mash my grains at 152 for 60 minutes. Stirring gently at 15 minute intervals. I've been trying to find...

Today I made my first Light American Lager. It is going to be triple hopped. Hopefully it turns out great. It is a little lighter in color than I would expect a light lager would be. Kinda expected it to look like Miller Lite but its almost clear in color. Only 3.1SRM (which is the top of the...

I use their malts and I love them!

Will definitely do

Oh I thought you meant co2 haha yes I have an oxygen stone .5 micron. I use it for my meads and high gravity wine.

Yea no doubt

That's a 2L flask

Here is a pic of the yeast starter I had to turn the stir plate off because it was causing the overflow

About 16 hours ago. I woke up this morning to find that she has exploded out the top of the flask!

I am using 2 10 gallon igloo coolers and a 15 gallon blichmann pot She's moving right along! Hopefully she does explode out