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I realized I still have a mr beer kit with the original west coast pale ale ingredients from when I first started brewing. Decided I would make it and throw some other stuff in there to make it interesting, boiled 1/4 oz of nugget hops I had laying around for half an hour in the 4 cups of...

I brewed a wheat beer last Friday with a grain bill of 50% two row, 50% wheat, and added 1 lb of honey when I was cooling the wort. OG of 1.052 (82% efficiency). This coming weekend I plan to rack the beer and add 7lbs of diced/frozen peaches. This beer is for my girlfriend. I chose 7 lbs...

from my experience when I've drained full speed my extraction was horrible, and when I've drained slowly my extraction was excellent

So drain the first running at 1 qt/minute, and once I sparge drain full flow and I will get the same efficiency?

Really? If this is true this would really cut down on my brew time, but I would be really cautious to even try it. How can full speed be sufficient enough to rinse all the sugar?

For the batch I did Friday night I only had 7 and 1/4 lbs grain and 1 lb honey. Aimed for a ratio of 1.50 qts/lb but, as has been happening to me a lot (despite heating mash tun), initial temp came out too low - 148. Took 3 quarts to get it to 152 surprisingly. This brought my ratio up to 1.9...

I think for tonight I am going to use brewheads sparge calculator and just go with a mashout...see how it comes out.

Yeah that makes sense. I am not really looking to do a mash out...I have just been lead to believe that raising the mash temperature to 168 when you sparge will result in the highest extraction. But I do see what you are saying raise it to 168 with the first rinse and maintain it at 168 with the...

I am using http://www.brew365.com/mash_sparge_water_calculator.php for my mash and sparge calculator, I have compared it with some others and it has been fairly reliable for me so far. For the batch I am doing it calculates a sparge volume of 5.16 gallons. Normally I would add this volume at...

I know they say to chill your beer at least 48 hours before you serve it, and that many folks advocate cold conditioning any beer, or to warm condition x amount of time then cold condition equally as long. Well I bottled a brown ale on January 15th, tried a couple bottles along the way because I...

The guy at the homebrew store told me to let it ferment at room temp for a day, I thought it was weird. So 2/3 of the way into fermentation you bring it up closer to room temp for the diacetyl rest? Maybe 9 days into primary? Then bring it back down and rack to secondary? If I follow correct...

Tomorrow I am brewing my first lager, homebrew store was out of all liquid lager yeasts, so I went with a safale dry lager dry yeast packet and I put it in a 4 pint (1 cup dme) starter for about 16 hours at room temp them moved to the fridge. Tomorrow going to brew a Vienna lager (1.053...

If boiling glass will sanitize it then theoretically the temperature that is needed to be reached is 212F. If this temperature is reached then why would it matter if you left the glass at this temperature for 1 minute or 100 minutes. Why would you need to bake your bottles for hours. Seemes to...

Thanks for the reply I was under the impression (based on reading not handling a cooler, as I am currently at sea) that the coolers became a bit thinner at the bottom, although that seemed odd to me...I could always have him tack on a few little feet to stand it up a couple inches, that work?

I am about to build a 10 gallon cooler mash tun. I have not bought any of the parts yet, including the cooler. It just so happens my buddy works at a metal shop and after sending him a picture of a false bottom he says he can easily make one for me. I have given him the dimension that I...

Hello Brewers, I am looking to brew a Christmas Ale (not necessarily in time for this year's holidays, so aging is not an issue) and plan to base it on a combination of recipes already posted on HBT - a nice heavy, malty brown ale to porter style beer with vanilla bean, cinnamon, and maybe...