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Yes, the notes I have here say explicitly that it gets much better with age after bottling - "don't be in a hurry. 3 months is NOT too long." Based on the recipe I based my beer off of, it looks like he kept it in primary for about two weeks before racking into secondary for another two weeks...

It does! Makes me think I've got a pretty good batch going in spite of my weird mix-ups.

Cool, I've got it sitting on some cooling packs right now and that seems to have brought it down a bit until I can get it in an ice bath. Still bubbling like mad, which I expected from the reviews of this yeast - A10 is no joke.

Imperial A10. I have an external thermometer in the garage and can confirm that the temp surrounding the bucket is 66 as of about two minutes ago. Is the temp inside the bucket more important? I can certainly put something cool on/around it! EDIT I should also note that is a SUPER cheap...

Interesting, I didn't even think of that angle but it makes a lot of sense! We also had a HUGE amount of hot break/cold break/whatever get caught by the filter bag, probably enough to have displaced 3/4 of a gallon. Next time I'm going to get started earlier, use a marker, and take more precise...

Yeah, we actually had additional extra wort that we could have added to the boil had we known how much was going to boil off, but... live and learn, and overall not bad for my first brew day! The good news is I took notes and now know roughly how much boil-off to anticipate next time. And of...

Nah, it was the enormous extra volume of water, I'm confident of that. It was much more than just an extra half gallon and I know exactly what I did wrong - I was supposed to batch sparge with 1.5 gallons TWICE, I did it three times. Rookie mistake! To make matters worse we had a lot more boil...

This... smells really good.

Alas... Missed pre-boil gravity thanks to the extra water. 1.035 vs 1.060. So it goes. At least I know *exactly* what I did wrong. We'll see how it looks after the boil!

So far so good! I may have used a tiny bit too much sparge water and have a bit too much going into the boil - seems to be more like 7.25 gal rather than 6.75 and still have a bit of wort left in the tun - but the bits of wort I've had have been tasty and the wort is damn near BLACK, a good...

Well, I made the last minute executive decision to pick up a propane burner to brew outside after concluding that I would likely destroy my tiny kitchen and that stuff would take forever. After setting everything up in the yard, it started raining (the forecast was "sunny") and it is not...

Gnomebrewer, I am a little bit behind at work right now but wanted to sincerely thank you for all your help and your in-depth answers.

Yeah, apparently the A10 is an incredibly fast-working yeast so I was planning on giving it 5 days or so.

Right, yeah, just wait for it to stabilize, basically?

Got it on the lautering, I meant to add that detail. So the pre-boil gravity doesn't matter so much, just empty the wort into the kettle after lautering and then gently pour sparge water through the grain bed in "batches" (beersmith is calculating this) until my pre-boil volume is in the kettle?

now THAT makes sense!

Hello again! Okay. I'm one of those people who has to write things out in my own words to fully understand them, so I am cobbling this together from How to Brew and Beersmith's instructions. Tomorrow is my first brew day, and, because I'm insane, I'm doing an all-grain porter. It's a 5-gallon...

Ha ha! No, this is my thinking, too. I will be brewing my first-ever batch tomorrow, so I've held off on making any big investments in equipment until I learn whether or not I'm having any fun. As such, I am using gear that I bought for an absolute steal on craigslist, and all told between gear...

I plan to make the jump to such a product eventually assuming I stick with this, but I'm currently less than $150 into all the equipment and ingredients for my first batch and don't want to drop hundreds on something like the Grainfather or Foundry before learning the basics on a budget. If I...