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I live in BFE, getting supplies is a 40 min drive one way. Thinking of buying a mill to help make ingredient management easier. Figure I could store grains (not crushed) longer or order grains online with less sensitivity due timing. Do most homebrewers have a mill at home? Is it one of those...

I really want to thank the community for offering advice and helping me think through this last session. Sometimes it good to know that others have gone through similar learning curves. I will re plan and re execute here soon. I will let you know if the beer fermenting now turns out ok or if...

2.5 in the fermenter is also an estimate. The lowest marking it has is 5 gal

1.080 (measured with slurry in it). Honestly I say I dumped a little over a gallon or right around that mark. Didnt measure it or anything just going off feel looking back. Wasn't in the best frame of mind at the time.

I definitely dumped more than I should have not understanding it would settle in the fermenter. Fail there on my part for sure. I think I boiled off more than expected, but also dumped wort that I shouldn't have.

My brewsmith setup says I'll lose .5 gal per hour in boil. I am assuming that's super low based on what I have read, maybe closer to 1 gal

This one.

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/dogfish-head-90-minute-ipa-clone/ That's what the recipe called for.

Puzzled in what way?

So its typical for brewers to empty the entire kettle into the fermenter? Where did I pick up leaving the "bad stuff" behind?

How would beer smith come out with a estimated pre boil gravity that is higher than 100% efficiency?

I had more "slurry" to put in but assumed it was stuff I shouldn't add to the fermenter. Not sure how much more I had, I had to dump my strainer twice when it plugged up.

Does bagging pellet hops do anything or is that for whole leaf only.

So you are saying to dump it all in the fermenter, hop gunk and all?

I didnt know you could boil too vigorously. I kept it a rolling bubbling... is that too much?

I took the "total water needed" field in brew smith which was 7.72 gal as what I needed to mash with. Now I see a "mash volume needed" at 9.05 gal, did I really just miss read this? Or is that the size of the tun? My brewhouse is set up at 72% efficiency which I think was the default.

The county fair in my area had to entrants for home brewing, me and me one other guy... lol

There is activity less than 24 hours later. Hopefully it's good activity and this just becomes a good tasting "small batch" and I can figure out what I did wrong.

After I mashed I took a reading Andrew was at 1.063 I (after the temp adjustments in beer smith). I had right about 6.5 gals to boil for 90 mins. I tired to filter it through a fine strainer when transferring into the fermenter and it plugged up on my because of the sludge. (It was a dogfishhead...

Assuming I should back my dry hop plans way back since my volume is much lower than expected.