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I usually just whip the wort around with my mash paddle until I get tired of doing it lol. I have tried an aeration stone and really never could tell a difference in start times. The really big thing to be careful of is to wait for the temp to fall below 80 degrees F before you aerate so...

This finished up pretty quick at 1.010. I discovered the other day that my thermometer is off by about 10 degrees so that means I mashed it around 145 instead of 155. Add to the equation that I used 05 yeast and I can see why it's a little dry but it does taste pretty good right now. It has a...

I didn't get to make this like I said I would earlier but I started it tonight. It took forever to finally convert in my mash tun for some reason but I finally got it in the boiler and heating up. ETA: I hit 1.051 on the gravity. I scaled up the grain bill a little because my efficiency...

I'm mashing this recipe tomorrow morning. I get to try out my newly fabricated "heatstick" as well. I substituted the safale 04 for the -05 on accident because I was distracted gabbing about the style of this brew with my LHBS guy so I'll just mash a little higher. Can't wait to try it out!

Just registered from Indiana... I'm starting a AG batch of Blonde Ale this weekend. Looking forward to browsing around here while mashing. Cheers!