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To answer your first question. There are people on here who say to leave it on the yeast and not use a secondary; then there are those that live by using secondary. The question is, what is the temp of the basement? The thing I would look at is fermentation done before you leave on vacation...

What was your mash and fermentation temps if I may ask?

Here is the recipe scaled down to a robust porter with OG 1.065 BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com Recipe: Quilter's Irish death Brewer: Asst Brewer: Style: Robust Porter TYPE: All Grain Taste: (30.0) Recipe Specifications -------------------------- Boil Size: 14.15 gal...

Yes it is the original Barley Wine. I got the recipe out of a homebrew book and put it to a calcuator. I agree with if you want it smaller, put it in another calculator to scale it down in gravity. I haven't had time to try and brew it yet, been a bit busy with work.

Do you use and icebath when cooling or just top up water?

Are you in a bucket or carboy? If you have a carboy, you can pick it up and shake like crazy. It will do 2 things, one it will mix your wort and topoff water really well. The other big thing it will do is add O2 to the wort. This is a good thing, Yeast like O2 when growing and starting the...

I would pitch what yeast I have to get something started. The longer you wait till pitching time, the more bad bugs will grow (learned the hard way). If you get something going, you should be alright; but no promises. Off subject, if you are interested, we are hosting a learn to brew day up...

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Do you have any Idea on a grain bill? Next question, do you record any of your brews with either a notebook, spreadsheet, online brew calculator, or software? You may want to look into one of these for future brews, just to help you along. There are really 2 things I learned about brewing; 1...

Do you at least have enough $$ for grains???? I know the feeling. It took me almost 2 years to get all the equipment together for all-grain.

Nice, been really thinking about building one myself.

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I will talk to my club as I am getting more involved with them. The club I belong to has had 6 members become professional brewers since its start 20 years ago. As for the rest, how about them Lions, and Tigers and Wings oh my!!! I was born in Grand Rapids, but after highschool joined the Navy...

Thanks for all the input. With all the input everyone gave me, I think what will happen is I will end up buying a mill and pump here soon and then asking my kids for a refractometer for Christmas. I do not know if I could get bulk grain as cheap as $.50/lb, but I have a couple of friends that...

I see most people are saying either refractometer or mill. Any ideas on which one? I have seen 2 roller and 3 roller, but the 3 roller is just a little more. If I were to order a mill, it would have to be online. I have LHBS within 3 miles of miles house and half way between home and work. I...

I have been thinking about this lately: I want to get something else for my brewery, but what. I have narrowed it down to 3 items of what I want to get. The first is a grain mill, next is pump and then a refractometer. Just looking for some answers from others on which order should I purchase...

This is what I use and I can get 10 gallons of tap temp to about 165 in about 20 minutes. It also has a 30 psi reg on it. You may be able to get that much heat from those burners if you get a higher PSI regulator on it, normal is about 10 PSI. My burner puts out about 200+ BTUs at full throttle...

Only trouble with baking is when you need 1/2 an egg. :)

Two weeks from brew to drink on a mild. Brewed on a Friday let ferment for 10, keg conditioned and then enjoyed the on that Saturday for cask fest this fall. I brewed a very easy beer, had to wait 10 days as the yeast was still fermenting but then transferred to keg and conditioned in the keg...