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I have been incredibly frustrated my last few brews, because my efficiency comes out to around 50%. I have been using Beersmith for my calculations. On a whim, I downloaded Beer Alchemy and put in the recipe I did last night that I missed by 9 gravity points. At 65% efficiency (which I had...

How did it turn out?

Updates? This sounds amazing!

Nope, still got 'em.

I'm in. I wasn't following this thread, and just got a PM from fletchsj, so I feel unprepared (had a beer party at my house recently so most of my supply is gone, and everything else is still green), but I will bring what I can. It'll be good to talk to some people and share techniques and...

Just to put it out there: Eight + Neighbor = Neightbor As a graphic designer, you may be able to lay out the two words on top of each other to really make the back that they share a four letter sequence really nicely. That being said, Eight Neighbor is hard to say aloud, and unless you hit...

So does that mean when I have a homebrew party in a couple weeks my house is going to smell like farts all night?

Awesome. Thanks!

Pyramid's Outburst says that it has an OG of 20, which I assumed meant 1.020. But that doesn't make any sense to me, if it's an 8.5% ABV brew. Is this another unit of measure that I don't know about, like IBU vs HBU?

Damn, that's a lot of trub. Cool. Thanks!

I followed a yeast washing tutorial, and I think it went well. Boiled and sanitized everything. Poured leftovers in fermenter and water into large jar, shook, and it separated. I poured the liquid into three jars, and there was definitely a thick layer of trub/gunk on the bottom that didn't...

Guess I'll throw my hat in the ring and say if you're in PDX, PM me.

I have 8 sanke taps for sale, $15 plus shipping (probably around $5, but depends on location). I am getting ready to clean them up and scrub them down. I'm in the Portland, OR area, so if you're here, get them for no shipping. Thanks! Edit: That's $15 each, not for all.

I inherited a sanke keg and want to try my hand at force carbing, using the set and forget method for a couple of weeks. If I put a 5 gallon batch into the keg and hit it with CO2, am I wasting a lot of CO2 because of the the extra 10 gallons or so of space in the keg? And/or will that create...

I got Jason Breatt's Honey Stout kit, made and bottled with no problems. However, I went to store the recipe in BeerSmith, and got completely different IBU details. The kit says it should be 30-34, but BeerSmith says 13.3. What do I believe here? Also, I classified it as a Sweet Stout. Is...

I am fermenting in a bucket with a spigot, and not racking to secondary. I have bottled a couple batches using the auto siphon in the top, but that's a bit of a pain. Moving the beer to another bucket just for bottling so I could use a spigot would have the same sort of possible issues as...

Thanks Revvy. You're my favorite.

I just brewed my third batch, and went with the honey stout from morebeer.com. Grains were: 8 oz Black Barley 4 oz Munich 4 oz Honey Malt Extract: 6 lbs Light LME .5 lbs Light DME Here's where I think I may habe gotten confused and screwed up. It also came with 4 oz Maltodextrin...

With the strips, how would you control the heating or cooling?

I don't have a chamber for my fermenting bucket, so it is sitting on my counter in the kitchen. My plan is to wrap the sensor in plastic wrap to keep it water proof, drill a hole in the top of my fermenting bucket, put the sensor in with an airtight grommet (like my airlock has) and putting it...