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ummm... wouldn't that just be another wit?

Coincidentally I just did this today myself with 2.5 gallons of amber. I wasn't nearly as diligent though. I only washed it twice myself. Its sitting in 3 - 1 quart jars settling out and will go into 3 or 4 - 1 pint jars eventually. Bernie_Brewer's sticky in this forum is great. Layla go to...

This is a good subject. TBN had Charlie Bamforth on for an episode. I'm listening to it now (Qand A with Dr Charlie Bamforth 11-30-09 http://thebrewingnetwork.com/shows/582). He recommends high mash temps. He states to mash in at 72C (162F) Most of the starch will break down, but not into...

mychalg9 try this. Check your gravity before you do the "sparge" in the other pot. My guess is it will be relatively high as your holding back some water for the sparge. You can go to this website recipator.com and figure your pre-boil for the amounts you'll be using. This way you'll know how...

Definately a bad move tossing out the batch. Everytime I've used WLP300 it had a sulphur smell. No vommit taste noted though.

Has anyone tried to cold crash to drop the yeast out of suspension in primary?

How old is the beer? I haven't used WLP004, but will be for the first time this weekend. I've used WLP002 quite a few times. Its a great yeast.

I thought that even though the iodine says there is conversion not all the fermetables may be converted... dextrin's not fully converted to fermentables or some such thing? I'll have to look up what I'm trying to say.

If you plan on holding back water to tea bag (hehe) I'm sure it will be OK. With BIAB method the idea was to do a full volume - no sparge mash in one vessel. When I did brew in a bag in an 8 gallon kettle I would hold back a gallon of water because the kettle was too small to hold all the...

Sparge if you want, but what I said is there's no need. My guess would be if your that far off on your Pre-Boil Gravity rinsing isn't going to help much. The original conception of the idea as I understand it is that its no sparge. It saves time and still produces beer as good as a...

You shouldn't need a sparge with BIAB. I've let my grain bag drain into a bucket while sitting in a strainer to get all the wort. I've never sparged in another pot. you don't need to. I usually set my strike temp 4-5 F above mash temp. BIAB is a little different than a regular mash in a...

Just curious where your putting your CO2 detectors when running indoors?

I'm defiantely leaning towards electric. I could brew on the counter top inside then.

I'm going to be using the same setup essentially. I have the 50qt Igloo cube, gravity draining wort into direct fired BK, and pumping back to mash tun. I had some false bottom material that I attemtped to use in my keggle MLT. I put it in the cooler mostly to keep my grain off the bottom...

Homer that was my exact thought. I think the dip tube plays a role in kind of screwing you around with the prime. Might be different with a "normal" flat bottom kettle. Like I said it seems that the hose fills up to a certain point. Once I cleared the big bubbles from the tube though it went...

I agree. I've done it when I wasn't at terminal gravity and it seemed feremntation had stopped (with wlp002). I took gravity over a couple of days and had no movement. So I roused it a bit and squeezed 4 more points out of it. After my last batch with wlp002 I think it might have been fine if...

Sorry steelers, I didn't mean I was suspicious of yours, just in general. I'm trying to learn water chemistry. The ones posted for my water on the internet are always old and I need to contact them as you did. A lot of people post about internet reports on here and I'm just suspicious of the...

I'm suspicious of the water reports that are posted on the internet. I bought kits at home depot 3 or 4 times in the last year and the numbers never agree. I'm curious if the mineral content is accurate.

I haven't used 3068 but I have used wlp300, which is similar if not the same. The beer has a heavy yeast presence and is at its best when very young. If your at your FG bottle it. I wouldn;t worry about yeast cleaning up anything. I've drunk one I forced carbed 8 days after hit the ferementer...

Do you use a spigot with the liners or just siphon?