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I dunk, squeeze, then pour sparge and then squeeze like it owes me money.

I only get about a 0.6gal/hour boil off rate. It all depends on equipment and varies with each brewer. Before you brew again just fill the pot you brew in with water and emulate a brew day. Put, say, a gallon and a half in and boil it at the same vigor as you would on brew day. Boil it for an...

Higher efficiency doesn't necessarily mean more beer, it just means you'll have a higher OG, which results in more alcohol. If you add top-up you will dilute hops and flavor and change the body. 80% BIAB is very good.

I've never used a secondary and my beers come out great. To me it's an unnecessary step with another chance for infection.

I used to not aerate at all and vigourous fermentation started after like 3 days. Now I shake my fermentor for 5 minutes, pitch my rehydrated dry yeast then shake for 5 more minutes. Now my vigorous fermentation starts after 6 hours. Since I leave my beer in the primary for 3 weeks, it's not a...

Honestly I'm sure you could take the caps off and add sugar and re-cap but it would take forever to for it to carbonate after that. I'd let it be and just enjoy it for what it is at this point. I doubt it's gonna be that bad!

Exactly, I agree 100%. Just because the beer is done fermenting doesn't mean you bottle it. Some of my beers ferment in 3 days but will obviously taste terrible so being done fermenting means nothing when it comes to making a great beer.

First, I meant rehydrating the dry yeast, not a starter. The link I provided clearly shows rehydration, sorry for my mistake. Second, don't call me out for accusing me of saying I do it the right way. I specifically said "I WOULD DO"... I never said "do it this way". I don't bottle until...

No problem. If you start to get seriously into brewing it's extremely handy. I bought a license the day my trial ended. Hard to brew without it!

Don't judge a beer on the taste of the wort, especially after 4 days, it won't taste even remotely close to what the final beer will be. The reason it is so sweet is because that is what sugar is what the yeast ferments and after 4 days, hardly any of the sugar is fermented. As for the hops...

Did you take an OG reading and FG reading? I bet they were crazy! Since you mashed at such an incredibly high temperature you didn't get much fermentable sugar because you probably killed the enzymes and didn't get much conversion, so adding the honey was a good idea. The beer will most likely...

Yeah that looks fine to me, I'll have floating yeast rafts like that 2+ weeks into fermentation quite often. In the future however I would do a yeast starter. Here's a very simple way: http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter6-5.html Also 8 days of fermenting is way too short. I would do at...

Download the Beersmith trial. It will probably help you with a lot of questions you have.

Personally, I strain it because it takes no extra time. I just dump the wort through a kitchen strainer straight into my fermentor and leave the last couple inches of trub behind and dump it down the drain. You might get more yeast flavor in your beer if you don't use a secondary, but I doubt...

As others said, hops can be overwhelming before or even after fermentation. They should settle down after a couple months in the bottle. There's no way to "remove" hops except time.

You'll be fine. I ferment my IPA's at 66-68 ambient temp in my basement and they turn out great

So I added about 8 cups to a pot, boiled over half of it off while adding about 3/4 cups sugar and the gravity is now at 73. Thanks for the help

Yes, I suspected that to be the problem so I shook my fermentor for 5 minutes vigorously and got the same reading

I'm actually doing a 2.5 gallon batch. I using safale 05 so I shouldn't have a problem getting a low FG. Beersmith originally estimated a 7.4%, but assuming I get to a 1.010 I would get a 6.6. Would adding the sugar have a strong affect of the taste, because it seems to me it would?

That's how I did my first ever BIAB and that's how I still do it to this day. I've never done AG without doing BIAB because of how simple it is, I'd definitely recommend it