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OG before going into the fermenter was 5.5 gal at 1.069. was shooting for 1.073 at 72% efficiency, only got about 69%

sorry. meant calcium carbonate

My equipment by the way is a 10 gal igloo cooler mash tun w/ a false bottom and a 15.5 gal brew kettle.

Did you take hydrometer readings? With cooled wort? Were your volume measurements accurate? Did you have loss to trub or equipment? If you mix your pre-boil wort really well, and carefully measure SG and volume, that will tell your mash efficiency, which is a better number to chase IMO...

I was making a rye pa today. I use distilled water and just build from there. I was doing my water additions for the mash and I wanted to do 3.5g of gypsum and 1.5g of cal chloride but when I went for the cal chloride I accidently grabbed the cal carbonate instead. I added 1.5g of baking soda...

I just did my 2nd all grain batch today, I brewed a rye pa and ended up with only 66% total efficiency. I know that there are probably a bunch of post about this already but I wanted to get some feedback from some of you more experienced all grainers and see if you guys could help me out. I...

I did put in a lb of lactose.

I just did my first all grain recipe today it was a left hand milk stout clone. I heated my mash water to 173 and somehow with the mash tun and grain temp dropped to 148. mashed at 148 degrees for 60 mins. Then I heated my sparge water to 190 and ended up with a temp of 160 in the tun. I...

I am going to brew two beers over the next week, an IPA and a Left hand milk stout clone. I just started experimenting with adding salts to my water and these will be my first batches using them. I use r/o water for my brews. For the IPA I think Ive decided to use a water profile that looks...

so simple and yet I didn't even think of it. Thank you. I just tried that and it worked. This is my first time using one so I kinda started freaking out when it didn't work.

I just bought a stir plate 2000 and a 2000ml flask. When I turn it on the stir plate vibrates and it seems like it works fine, but when I put the flask on it and put the stir bars in the flask they just fall to the side and stay there. I have even tried shaking the flask a little to try and get...

I am thinking about trying a oatmeal raisin cookie brown ale recipe in time for the holidays. I was wondering if there was anyone out there that has brewed something like this before, how did you do it? what did it taste like? This is what I have so far. Need some feedback. Should I up the...

I was cleaning hops out of my racking cane and I accidently pop off the little piece that's inside of the tube at the bottom, I cant get it back on. Is there any way to get it back on? I haven't tried it yet but will my racking cane still work? Is there something I can replace it with? Hope I...

I took hydro reading before putting into fermenter. At 70 degrees gravity was at 1.054

this recipe is orginally from someone on here. I made it once before and it turned out great. good light summer beer and has some heat to it.

All-Grain - Jalapeno Cream Ale -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recipe Type: All Grain Yeast: Wyeast 1056 Yeast Starter: yes Batch Size (Gallons): 5.5 Original Gravity: 1.052 Final Gravity: 1.011 IBU: IBU 42.6 Boiling Time...

I just brewed up a blood orange hefeweisen using white labs 300 hefeweisen yeast, I was wondering if I wash this yeast and use it for future hefeweisens if I get any off flavors? Has anyone washed this yeast before and used it? What kind of experience have you had with it? How many times have...

I brewed an extract version of the blood orange hefeweisen on tuesday of this week. When I pitched the yeast the wort was at 70 degrees, everything was fine, fermentation started within 24 hours and the airlock was bubbling like crazy and I had a thick white foamy layer of about 3in thick on top...

I was thinking it would be easier and probaly alot cheaper to just get some strawberry flavoring of some kind. If I go that route Ill probaly add it at bottling. How much should I add? I was going to do 4oz for a 5gal batch. is that too much?

why 2oz of strawberry flavoring in the secondary and then 2 at bottling? why not just all 4oz at bottling? is there a difference?