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Ive learned to take what the "local home brew shop guy" says with a grain of salt. The one closest to me is pretty good but i have been to some others that have told me crazy things and I have overheard them tell beginning brewers things that are flat out wrong. you 100% dont need to do a...

aerating post fermentation is not great but depending on the beer style may not be the end of the world. you may see the most negative effect in really hoppy beers IPA's NEIPA's pale ales as the hop flavors and aromas may fade out. If its a stout you may not be able to tell. ether way its...

SS brewtech has told me you need at least 8 gallons for the cooling coil to in my 14 gallon unitank (haven't actually tried that yet). the heating side will work on a 5 gallon batch though

OK well someone with much more GF experience than i have will have to chime in

Do you always do GF?

Not trying to scare you but a cats mouth has tons of nasty bacteria. My dogs get in fights with the neighborhood cats all the time ( they never seem to win the fight but thats a whole different story). the cat bites almost always get infected and its a trip to the vet for cleaning and antibiotics

be careful here I tried this (and at least with the foam i used) it was a mess. The mash heated the foam past the melting point and i had a sticky foam mess oozing out of my cooler lid for the whole mash. it was a huge pain

this is more a cover your a$$ from a liability prospective. If I was the owner of the home brew shop i would not allow you to have your meetings in my establishment unless you carried your own liability insurance (and you would probably need to be a legal entity to get liability insurance). if...

Are you creating your own recipes? I know that is allot of fun but you may want to try some kits or some well tried recipes. start simple with an an APA or a blond with a fairly simple grain bill. It will be far easier to know what the problem is if you use a known good recipe. just looking...

i dont think anyone here is going to talk you out of buying a bag of base malt lol

I think Galaxy is the easy choice should be killer with the other two. If you want to go out of the box Idaho-7 could be really interesting. I would go Idaho-7 for no better reason than I have 1lb of that in my freezer

100% agree with @marc1 set your goal to make something good and drinkable and work on your process and improve. even after years of brewing you will make batches your not super pleased with but thats part of the fun and experimenting. Right now I'm drinking a Braggot i made with the second...

my guess (as others have stated) is you are recirculating too fast and creating channels through the grain bed. one easy test is don't recirculate on your next batch and see what your efficiency is. if its way up you have found the problem. i would put a valve on the pump outlet so you can...

not sure how big a batch you're doing but i would use it all (accept the flaked barley) , US05, and the last 3 hops. That should give you a nice light IPA type thing

Both are good but might be easier to pick if you told us what the other two you are planning to use are.

I have a 20G kettle i found that i could get an ok whirlpool on 6G but at 12G it was not really what i would consider a whirlpool when going through my chiller

if the recipe should be at 1.062 and you were 1.040 thats a pretty big difference. I would look at your mash procedure, temps ect. this could explain why your last batch at least is blan or "watery"

if it helps here are my drawings. I was not able to get a good whirlpool through my chiller so i had to change up my origional design to add a bypass for the whirlpool

Was not able to get a good whirlpool through my chiller so more fittings and valves and now I'm able to bypass the chiller when i need to for good whirlpool

building something very similar. Just waiting on my Mashtun to complete the system (stupid "out of stock")