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Its an ESB brew if that has any bearing on peoples thoughts. I have a satellite fermenter for hydro readings I could taste, but didnt initially. I was thinking the ABV would be high because the initial hydro reading indicated that...but as long as its not taste/batch killing, im ok with that.

Off the top of my head (written down at home) initial hydro reading was 1.058. I am ok just leaving it if it will be ok (dont mind the reduced volume), but my fear was the concentration would lead to a concentrated/too strong final product. I will add water to avoid having a super...

After reading a bunch on the benefits of full boiling all 5 gallons of the wort, I attempted it (partial grain, full 5g boil right from the start). What I didn't realize is how much liquid would boil out given our dry climate. So my questions are 1. is the beer going to be ok as I probably...

yea, i think I may ferment in my 6gal carboy, then secondary/carb in the sanke

can you expand a bit on that?

Quick question... I have been reading a ton on people that use sankeys to ferment and I have a kegerator setup that I would love to use to dispense homebrew. My question is if I ferment in an empty sankey (stem removed, cap/airlock), after fermentation can I either re-install the stem, put...

yea, any experience making them? how hard etc? I am off to search and read up.

Ok, that makes sense...i may just go primary then. My current struggle is wanting to cook this weekend and not having a chiller now. I know there are plenty of 'no chill' advocates but given the size of my cookpot, I wanted to do a full boil. I can get a 25' chiller locally for around...

Yea, I grabbed some oxi clean last night and thanks everyone for the warning on the handle, not something I would have liked to find out the hard way. Thats my plan...cook in the keg, primary in the 6gal for headspace with a lock, then move to the 5gal to remove sediment and not need much...

Here is my major equipment components: (for some reason my last post never made it past admin approval...had links to others pics). Def looks like i have 2 mash tuns.

i do have the book and copied a bunch of the beginner/intermediate chapter pages for easy reference

This is exactly what my gatorade cooler looks like: http://www.forrestwhitesides.com/node/20 This is a what I think my chest cooler looks like: http://www.ipass.net/mpdixon/Homebrew/MashTun.html from the google, appears both are mash tuns...so i am not sure why 1.)there are 2 and...

Yea, ill post a picture tonight. After seeing it, the first thing I wanted to buy was a copper wort chiller and hopefully chill right in the cookpot with the thermomter. I am only attempting a partial grain brew. Still going to use extract with a few specialty hops/grains. I will take...

So I took on some used items and plan to cook my first batch this weekend. I have read a TON on this site and others, but wanted to run my setup by you guys to make sure I dont get back from the home brew shop and realize I needed more... Cookpot: full 15gal keg coverted, threaded thermometer...