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I'm going to agree with kal, with the one exception of Belgians, which are often high abv, highly carbonated, with huge rocky heads.

Good luck, and feel free to message me with any questions you have.

Good point, make your grain bill 1/3 flaked oats, greenify with a hop back.

As for the yeast I think you would be ok with a high gravity ale yeast WLP500 or WLP510. As for CO2, for a barley your going to want low carbonation, I'd go for 3/4 oz per gallon.

Lets see, recipe off the top of my head: 4 # Pale Ale Malt (Preferably Maris Otter) 1/4 # Crystal 60L-65L 1/4 # Chocolate Malt 1/4 oz Fuggles @ 60 1/4 oz Fuggles @ 20 1/2 oz Fuggles @ 5 (or flame out) Ferment with 1 packet of Fermentis S-04 @ 64F-66F (My favorite yeast strain for anything...

Given that heat is needed as an activator, unless your just going for flavor, dry hopping wouldn't work. If I were to run suck an experiment I would say stick it in a hop back. My concern at that point is what fermentation would take out of it.

I've used the same kind of false bottom your using, and they use to drive me nuts. Just like you I thought I solved my problem by hard piping, still no good. Switched the the slotted style and was amazed by the difference. In the hand it feels much more substantial, I'm not sure if its actually...

Thanks for the info, it definitely helps. I didn't realize that the 12.5 had a double gasket to seal the lid. I'm leaning more and more towards the 14.5, it just seems like a better more secure design.

First try this style false bottom: http://www.homebrewing.org/12-Stainless-Steel-Domed-False-Bottom_p_1058.html There better made with a better seal around the edge to stop grain from getting underneath. Also for anyone using false bottoms, I stole a page from Blickmann and ordered one of...

I'm going to be buying a new conical, either a 12.5 or a 14.5 from Stout Tanks and Kettles. Now I already own a 7 gallon blichman, and a few buddies and I share two 27 gallon blichman. Now I'm looking for something to do 10 gallon batches at my home (the 27 gallon fermenters are at my friends...

Allow me to add to what Friesste said. First off it doesn't so much depend on the beer as much as what you want from the beer and how much of a rush your in. Step by step; primary fermentation - should be in actually the only real fermentation, 1-3 weeks to allow full attenuation. Secondary...

I don't know if I like the idea of twisting my QDs into place, your still going to have to hose clamp your lines to those fittings and I would be concerned with that locking mechanism putting tension on the line. I personally went with cam-locks from 'bargain fittings' for my whole home brewery...

Sounds awesome, I'm in, good luck everyone.

PBW, hot water rinse followed by cold water rinse.

I recently re-did a lot of my brewing plumbing in flared rigid copper tubing with brass fittings. A couple months and many brews later I'm finding blue/green corrosion on the fittings and inside the pipes, which I understand to be a health concern. Anyone have any advice other than switching to...

I've done this in the past with chips instead of a spiral. I sanitized a jar, boiled the chips, dumped chips and scotch (I used scotch), into my mason jar. Let them soak as my beer went through primary, dumped everything into secondary. The beer was great, but had no head retention, please let...

http://www.brewershardware.com/FILTER1.html That's the filter that I use before my plate chiller, and it does a great job of keeping crud out of my chiller. When I use my hop back I put it before the filter in order to catch the rush of hop particulate at occurs when wort first flows though...

Just looking for some opinions on a idea. The short of it is this; my current practice is to whirlpool and then draining from up by the wall of my keggle. New idea is to take all or some of one of my hop additions, say a 5 or 10 minute addition, and start recirculating through my hop back. Then...

Anyone know where I could get a 1/4 keg keggle?

Ya, that's my last resort. Figured I'd throw it up here hoping someone had the 'perfect' idea.