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My boil pot is 20 qts. What is the displacement ratio for the grains? Is 1.2 qrts/lb sound right?

So.. with a second pot big enough to handle the grain bag, then you would recommend the tea-bag sparge over pour over, correct ?

My LHBS does have all that. At 1.25 qts/lb. I would be limited to about 10lbs grain bill, correct? I really like the idea of the BIAB.

The "tea-bag" approach to sparge sounds a lot easier than "pour over" method. Why shouldn't I always want to do it that way, especially if you get higher efficiency with tea-bag method ?

Will a (sanitized) 5 gal paint strainer, work to strain into the fermenter? What is your take on the first wort hopping. When it takes so long for me to get to boil, should I wait till I get closer to boil to add ?

I brewed my first PM this past weekend. “Surly Bender” kit from Northern Brewer. My 3 rd brew day under my belt (so to speak). My first brew was the Brewers Best Black Lager extract kit. Drinking that now, has a funny after taste at the back end, but still heady and tasty. I am aware of some...

OK, a BB rep warned me that I may lose out on some roasted characteristics by doing this. I thought substituting grains for extract would help my flavoring rather than taint it. Are there more appropriate grains than pale 2-row, to use with this kit to replace the amber extract ? Also, I...

I would like to try to convert some of the LME to a partial mash on this Brewer's Best - Imperial Nut Brown kit. 5 gal, OG =1.071-1.075, FG = 1.016-1.019 6.6 lb Amber LME 2 lb Amber DME 8 oz Maltodextrin 4 oz Caramel 80L 4 oz Chocolate 8 oz Victory 1 oz Bittering (Boil 40 min) 1...

Ok , I'll forget about the plastic soda bottles. I appreciate your suggestion to longer ferment in the primary. I've read enough to conclude that on all of my future batches, I will leave it in the primary for 3-4 weeks minimum. My progress on this batch however, is being monitored by my LHBS...

Im looking forward to bottle my first batch this coming weekend. It will be in the primary for 12 days by then, when I rack to the bottling bucket. Just curious about an idea stuck in my head. Would it be feasible to rack a portion of the brew into a soda bottle and hold to further clarify...