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Sounds good! How about the yeast? do I only use 1/5th OR the whole bag?

So, it wouldnt be better to stick with the same mash water to grain ratio even with a 1 gallon batch?

I want to brew a one gallon batch of a few beers to determine if I want to invest the time and $ in a 5 gallon batch. So here's what I'm thinking of doing. 1. Divide all ingrediants by 5 2. Put all grains in grain bag and place in large pot 3. Add adjusted amount of mash water to pot at...

So, you think my co2 level is fine despite the gauge shower a lower tank capacity since being in the fridge?

OK, keeged pumpkin ale today. burped and sealed keg. Sprayed starn san to check for bubbles. All good. Into the fridge went keg and co2 tank. It has been in fridge for around 3 hours. Just went down to put soemthing in fridge and the indicator that show how much co2 is left in the co2 tank has...

Last time I used my keg, I ran out of co2 in 2 weeks. LAst night, with a new tank, I put 10 psi on the keg, checked all connections, lid, etc. No bubbles anywhere. Left 10psi on keg overnight with co2 tank and valve off. Held pressure overnight. Tonight I will hook up beer ut line and put tank...

By the way, OG was 1.06 and FG was 1.004. Should be around 7.3% Alcohol!

This was also racked over star san foam. Thanks for the help!

Here's updated pics from last night. What does everyone think? [/IMG] [/IMG] [/IMG]

Racked my pumpkin ale to secondary yesterday. This morning it seems fine except for some floaties on top that I never saw before. My question is....is this beer contaminated? [/URL][/IMG]

Sunday night saw some very active fermentation coming from my pumpkin brew. Replaced airlock with blow off tube just in time. It has calmed down quite a bit. Probably a bubble every 2-3 seconds right now. Two questions, is there any problem with me changing the water daily? Also, should I swirch...

Thanks for the great advice. I will definitely attempt to recover some beer from the trub. I choose to go with pumpkin in the kettle as I heard nightmares about it clogging the mash.

I'm assuming that quarts per pound of grain? How many gallons do you usually get for a 5 gallon batch from your first runnings?

OG called for 1.058, I was at 1.06

OK, so yesterday was my first attempt at all grain brewing. Seemed ok except for a few things. Mash called for 3.5 gallons of water for the 10.75 lbs of grain. 1st running only collected 2.25 gallons! I do not know if this is normal, but seemed real low to me. Heated up another 2 gallons to 170...

I'm doing a batch of pumpkin brew this weekend. This year I want totry adding a bit of vanilla flavored vodka. My question is, do I add this to the secondary OR do i add it at bottling? I have seem people suggest both and I'm really unsure when to add. Any help would be appreicated.

thank you very much!

water temp calls for 152 degrees. Question, do I heat water to 152 or do I go a bit higher to compensate for grain?

Going with the 100% pure canned pumpkin. Not in the mash however. I will use at various times during the boils with a majority of it being used in the last 20 minutes.

Going for my first 5 gallon all grain batch next saturday. I go the pumkin kit from northern brew. It calls for a mash in for 60 minutes at 152, and mash out for 10 minutes at 170. Grain bill is a total of 10.75 lbs. As this is my first all grain attempt, I'm unsure as to how much water to...