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5.5 gallons in a 6 gallon carboy

When draining your boil kettle do you drain completely? The .75 - 1 gallon I have been leaving is very sludgey.

It is automatically set to 5.5 gal when I start. Maybe I'll just add more base grain on my next batch or maybe do a 90 min mash, I'm stumped.

Probably closer to 6.5. Maybe about 6.4?

Water chemistry is something I didn't think of. I use Eldorado Natural Spring Water. They report a pH of 7.33. Correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression that water pH isn't too important, it's the mash pH that is and it's determined by the other ions in the water combined with you...

To add a little more info, this happened to my 2 previous brews. First thing I thought was grain crush so this time I had my LHBS adjust the mill to give me a better crush, but same results.

Today I brewed my third AG beer, a simple SMaSH. 10 lbs Maris Otter, single infusion mash at 154 degrees, 1 hour boil. I had a preboil volume of 7.5 gallons, preboil gravity was 1.041 (corrected for temperature), giving me a brewhouse efficiency of over 80%, according to brewersfriend. When I...

Lucy, 9 yrs

Left Hand out of a Rogue stout glass!! I'm a REBEL!!

Avery Anniversary Twenty Two

Not having my own grain mill that grinds my grain.

People that wear beanies in the summer. They usually won't drink a beer if you've heard of it because it's too mainstream. Also people who tailgate, then when you get over to let them pass they go the same speed.

It's a beer

I've liked every one in the series more than the last. Started with Amarillo, it was great! Next I tried Galaxy, amazing! This is Citra and has Galaxy beat but just slightly.

Bottle and glass from their tap house yesterday

Good simple beer, will buy again. The can reads: Two malts. One hop. Farmhouse yeast.

How's it taste? Do the cherries come through?

Great stuff!

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I'm not real big on IPAs but this one is great!