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Outside of brewing, metal music is my other passion. I don't play, just a fan. So, I name all of my beers after metal songs, shooting for something that ties the name to the beer, whether it be something to do with the color, the style, where the style originates, etc. Dark Nebula (by Vektor) -...

I usually drink 3-4 beers on the sessionable side of things throughout the process. Maybe more, maybe less, though I never get hammered out - a light buzz, tops. I start screwing things up beyond that.

1289 + 5 gallons amber ale = 1294

Ingredients: ------------ Amt Name %/IBU 8 lbs Pale Malt (6 Row) US (2.0 SRM) 57.1 % 2 lbs Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) 14.3 % 1 lbs 4.0 oz Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) 8.9 % 1 lbs...

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Beer gun and refractometer. Also, will finally build my fermentation chamber, which I'm thinking of using a small window a/c unit with a Johnson Controls temp controller, with the probe stuck down into a 5 gallon bucket of water in the unit. EDIT: Apparently I didn't think the probe part...

Hey Russix, I'm just down the road from you in Jefferson City, MO, and also new here. I've been lurking on this board for about a year now, picking up a lot of good info (and admittedly, some bad as well), and just recently decided to sign up. In the past year since I started brewing, I've...

You have to take into account grain absorption, boil off rate, tun loss and kettle trub loss. The amount of loss depends on your system. For example, I typically lose around .13 gal/lb to grain absorption, 1.5 gal to boil off starting with an 8 gal boil, a quart or so to the tun and about a gal...