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For good measure here is the rest of the haul from France and Belgium.

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Was in Belgium for a few days, picked up a bottle of Westvleteren that is 12 years old. Anyone know if this is worth anything?

Hey, not sure if you have a mash paddle but I got mine from this guy on eBay and it is super nice and the price was great. Search for seller predfam he is out of nj.

Hey Guys, Just wanted to give you an update. I did an IPA last night and took into account all of your recommendations and hit 70% efficiency! What I did was: Had my LHBS tighten the mill Stirred the mash a lot more Measure the strike and sparge water much more carefully and sparged with water...

I have a relatively small brew pot and when I collect the wort after the sparge, I cut off what I collect at 6.5 gallons. I know I could get more of whats left in there, so there is definitely a problem with how much water I am using.

Ok will do, thanks for the pointer.

I am using estimates

Ok guys this all makes sense. Maybe my mash calculator is not configured correctly. I am using Brew 365 Mash calculator. What I put for my last batch is the following. Batch Size: 5 Gallons Grain Bill: 12.75 Lbs Boil Time: 1 hr Trub Loss (Gal): .5 Equipment Loss (Gal): 1 Mash Thickness...

Not really sure, I use a mash calculator.

Awesome, I will try this and get back to you. Thanks a lot guys~!

I wonder if my sparge water temp is too low... I think Saturday I will be brewing again and I want to get all my ducks in a row to try and up my efficiency. I am having my LHBS double mill my grains.

I actually thought temperature was the problem too, so on a previous beer what I did was used two thermometers to double check the accuracy. One was an instant read and the other was a regular old dial thermometer and they were within 1 degree of each other.

One question, during my sparge, should my water temp be 170? or should it be higher to compensate for the temperature loss once added?

I'll double check at home and get back to you.

ok.... not to sound retarded but, do you mean by just checking if it read 1.000 in water?

Yeah I am using the bazooka tube screen thing and I did try and source from LHBS and from Mid West supply with the same result.

I have had this issue with the crush from my LHBS and from Midwest supply. I am no expert on grain but it looked ok.... again I am no expert. I am planning on doing another cheapish beer to try and troubleshoot and I am going to ask my LHBS to double crush the grain.

I know this is no help, but how rockin' was Impending Descent? I had that at the brewery and it was knock your socks off good. Hope your beer turns out well. :tank:

I am smacking my head a against a wall here. I am constantly getting between 50 and 60% efficiency according to Beersmith and an online efficiency calculator. I recently did an ohio steve recipe 10lb american 2 row 1lb crystal 40 1lb cara pils 12oz wheat malt 60 minute mash at 152...