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+1. Any less than 3 weeks for bottle condition, regardless of style, will yield unsatisfactory results.

Interestingly enough, I have a stout that I bottled two weeks ago, and have found myself wondering similar things. Noticed a very prominent ring of gunk on one bottle and decided to dump it (the bottle, not the batch). It was a very either/or decision, I've seen bottle krausen in other...

Mash the pumpkin. I can't stress this enough: Mash the pumpkin. Mashing the pumpkin gives you easily ass much (if not more) pumpkin flavor than boiling, you don't have to deal with a gloopy mess in your kettle and fermenter, and you won't lose 2 gallons to pumpkin trub. Use 1.5# rice hulls...

Those problems shouldn't come from water on extract+steeping batches. Again, can you walk us through the process, in detail, you used on your all-grain batch, and your typical process for an extract batch? You're not reality giving us any information to work with here, bud. ;)

I believe that I've seen elsewhere that it's ok to add lactose at bottling, as long as it's been boiled in a little water to sterilize. Lactose is non-fermentable, so you don't have to worry about bottle-bombs or other adverse affects from adding at bottling. Of course, adding it to secondary...

Not true. BIAB/MAIB for patial mash and/or all-grain can and will get you very close to the efficiency of a more traditional set-up. I've done it myself. But that's a discussion for another thread. ;) Could you possibly walk us through, step-by-step, the process you've used to brew your...

I think that starting cold and heating the whole mash up to temp will result in an extremely thin beer. Different processes happen at different temperatures. Rather than type out 5 sections of "How to Brew," I'll simply point you to the appropriate section to start reading at, and let you...

I think just volume.I don't think they absorb to much, otherwise there wouldn't be a point to adding them. But don't take my word for it ;)

Google "green bay rackers," it's a website with a handful of calculators for total mash water, temp, etc. I won't go into explaining different mash consistencies (1.25qt/lb vs 1.5qt/lb, etc), but that's a good place to start

Hahaha +1 to that!!! Yeah, I found those as soon as I searched. I think the 5gal would be just fine, and Home Depot should have the paint strainer bags for like $3-$5. According to Green Bay Rackers, you can mash 11# of grain at 1.5 qt/lb before you fill 5 gallons of space. But if you...

Haven't seen a 5gal cooler for that cheap anywhere but now I'm gonna look

I partial mash using the oven as well. The pot itself won't hold heat nearly well enough to PM in it alone, and surrounding it with air that is warm enough to sustain the mash temp is a pretty easy way to get around that problem if u don't want to build a mash tun.

Shall we say.... "Un Mas?" ;)

The batch I brewed a few months ago is awesome right now.... Creamy carbonation, delicious flavor. The smoke is subtle but it wouldn't be the same without it. Fantastic beer.

I can see where you're coming from on AG batches, but again, for partial mash and extract+steeping recipes, if you add the extract late (I add mine immediately after boil), coloring shouldn't be affected, and I actually have to scale back hop additions to keep the ibus from getting out of...

I think the question of stainless v aluminum come up at this point, with various pros and cons on both sides.... I'm looking at that pot too, now ;)

I still don't see why one *has to* do full boils if they don't want to... I don't believe there's any tangible benefit for extract or PM batches...

That is true, you do need to beware of chips, but i probably couldn't adequately explain how hard it is to chip one... I use as stainless steel stir spoon and haven't even come close to chipping it. However, they don't hold heat as well as I might like. That's about my only complaint thus far.

I personally don't see any reason to go full boil on extract or partial... (Or AG but that's another discussion). But i suppose if you have the coin and the room to buy and make use of a larger pot, you might as well! Whatchu got against stoneware, huh? ;)

A month and a half in the refrigerator made this and awesome beer. Crisp, delicious hop flavor, lots of citrus and apricot. I'll brew something very close to this again.