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How big is your fermenter? When doing BIAB we usually go full volume water to grain.

Slightly off topic. I spent the winter of 62-63 at the Navy Training Center north of Chi Town. Never was so cold in my life. We went 35 days w/out it going above zero and the coldest was -25. Then they sent me to Hawai`i and I've never left. LOL

Raw beans? Not sure. Just easier to let the pro's do what they do best. I can buy roasted beans or already ground either 100% or 10% just about anyplace on the island.

With 84 pages of posts I'm not gonna try to read them all. LOL I may even have posted here years ago. LOL Living here on O`ahu all I have to do is go on a short hike at the right time of the year and I can harvest all the coffee cherries I want. I did this about 20 years ago w/my since...

Don't have it here in Hawai`i yet. Seems pretty expensive and I'm not impressed by a label that says ORGANIC.

A hoppy IPA

Brewing 2 5 gallon batches a day how often? You gonna have a whole lot of beer. Do you drink that much or do you have a lot of friends? Me I do 2 gallon batches giving me 17 bottles on average. Pretty much only me or one other guy drinking so I don't really want 100 bottles of the same stuff.

LOL Hear is your Blasting. LOL Enjoy it when done.

I use either an apt. sized fridge of which I have 4 or a 7 cu.ft. freezer. I can put one 2 gallon bucket in the fridges or two 5 gallon buckets in the freezer. I could also "stuff" the freezer w/5 of the 2 gallon buckets. Being in Hawai`i I only have to worry about bring things DOWN to...

Usually 2 gallons, but I can do 5.

Indeed so now when I go to order my supplies I have to divide the oz number by 16 as the scale at the HBS works with lbs and oz. And don't even talk about metric to this "old man". LOL

Ok Schwarzbier has good taste. Don't think I'v had a Rauchbier. Pilsners yea tastless. Of course this all could be due to my age. At 74 I don't taste as many "tastes" as when I was younger. LOL

Thanks...That seems easy enough.

BS drives me crazy. Creating a recipe I have to use decimals of lbs The recipe shows lbs and oz The shopping list is back to decimals. Anyway around this?

I've made 2 or 3 over the years but I really don't like lagers. Pretty tasteless. Give be a good ALE any day.

Yup, 2 gallons. I ferment in 2 gallon paint buckets from HD and usually get 17 bottles.

Mahalo (thanks) for the nice words. Next I'll attempt to double the size of my First Place American Imperial Stout. I have most of the ingredients already but I've never done a 4 gallon batch as I usually do 2 gallon, 17 bottle batches. The last one mellowed for a little over a year in...

Should have been 4lbs 12 oz. LOL Amt Name Type # %/IBU 2 lbs 12.0 oz Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 1 100.0 % 0.45 oz Magnum [14.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 2 73.0 IBUs 0.50 oz Hallertauer [4.80 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 10.0 min Hop 3 5.0 IBUs 0.50 oz Hallertauer [4.80 %] - Steep/Whirlpool...

Checked SG during the mash and man it was low. Post boil was lower than predicted Pre boil according to BeerSmith. Then as I was putting it into the fermenter I realized I screwed up royally. Although above I said I did 4.75 lbs in reality it was only 2.75. LOL....Dummy, that's what happens...

Getting ready to brew my German IPA based on American IPA standard BJCP 2015 21A. I use all German ingredients, grain, hops and yeast. Will brew tomorrow morning. Ground to flour 2.75 lbs of Munich in my blender in 4 minutes using 1 coffee cup at a time. Picture below. Munich Grain blended...