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Sammich

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You'll get there. We all started AG with a few mishaps, fear, confusion and whatnot. For me I wrote my process down and then checked the box at every step.

Yooper, question for you. I recirculate a few quarters off of my batch sparges. Is this at all necesarry?

One thing I have learned to do is to heat an additional quarter or two in case I miss on the low side. If you end up too hot throw a couple of handfulls of ice into the mash to bring the temp down. You definately want to stir the grain well. I usuall add 1/2 the water and 1/2 the grain and...

I mash similar to Zeppman. I use 1.25 quarts per lb of grain. Mash for desired temp and time. Then recirculate a gallon or two of the wort back into the grain bed and then drain. Then I usuall do two batch sparges with water around 170. The forst is usually around 2 gallons and the second is...

I wish Weekend Brewer would offer a deal like this!

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You'll need to transfer your beer from your primary into a bottling bucket to bottle.

No it does not get a plasticy smell. As Revvy mentioned it's ok to leave your beer in primary for a long times/ Like Revvy I leave my beer in primary for a minimum of 4 weeks and rarely do I ever secondary unless I am doing a dry hop or a long bulk age. Some brewers dry hop in primary as well.

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My GW porter calls for about 1 oz of molasses per gallon. I looked everywhere for non black strap and that's all the food stores had so I ended up using the black strap. It turned out fine. I would be interested in hearing how this turns out with a pound. Sounds like it will be good. I'm a...

Dump it all in. I dump it first and the siphon the wort on top.

Looks good. You could dry hop with simcoe my Avery Maharaja clone calls for 4.5 oz of simcoe for the dry hop

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Chainsaw

Good call on the C120.

I wonder if I could back the boil down to a 60 min and back the amounts down.