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So are you saying to only do two hop additions. 2 oz at 60 1 oz at 20 and that's it. Im not real good with hop additions and how they change the beer. I think I need to use SAAZ for this style. I only have 4% or lower SAAZ. They are usually pretty low on the AA. Why would higher AA be...

I knew I forgot something, yes I am using SAAZ hops 1.75 oz 4% at 60 .75 oz 4% at 30 .50 oz 4% at 10 .75 oz 4% at 0 This is only 25 IBU. This is lower than my last batch. It had way too much hop. The Budvar website says that it is 25 IBU. This is below style. the hop flavor on my last...

Ok, I actually changed my profile after reading a post from Kaiser. What do you think about this modification from Distilled for my pilsner. .8 g Calcium Chloride .8 Epson Salt This ends up like this CA 10, m 3, alkalinity 8, sodium 4, chloride 17, sulfate 14 Effective hardness 9, RA -6...

Hello, I am trying to make a good Czechvar clone. Please give me some feedback on this recipe for 7.5 gallon AG Recipe. Water is number one. I am going to use Distilled water and add 2.6 g gypsum, 3 g calcium chloride, 1 g Epsom salt, and .3 g baking soda. According to Palmers...

So, I followed Kaisers directions and I am building Pilsner water from Palmers spreadsheets and I came up with the following for 6 gallons of distilled water. Does this look good to you? CA 62, mg 4, alk 8, na 4, cl 64, sulfate 81, ra-39,chloride/sulfate balanced This using the following...

I really love Budvar/Checkvar and warsteiner. My beers seem to be a little thinner and just not as flavorful. They are bitter enough, I think it is the interaction of the malts that I cant get right.

Hello All, I have brewed a couple pilsners with infusion mashes, but I was hoping for something a little better. Recipe for 7.5 Gallons: 16 pounds Weyerman Pilsner 1 pound of Carapils Saaz Hops 4 additions. So, I have a morebeer 1550 that allows me to do step mashes. Is there any...

This thread interested me so I looked around to buy some PET bottles. With a simple search I noticed that the big breweries are starting to use PET bottles, but they are a very specific bottle with an oxygen barrier on the inside. Does anyone know if the bottles that you buy for beer online...

My wife and I had some major problems early in our marriage. I ended up screwing up and my wife demanded I go to counseling or she wanted a divorce. I really did not want to go, but I agreed. I was very worried the female counselor would take my wife's side because I ultimately made the last...

that is exactly what I was getting at. We should be able to set a gallons per hour setting instead of a percentage. It just makes more sense that if all other factors are equal the amount of water in the vessel does not mater.

OK, I have one other question. When calcualting the Water Needed I seem to loose a lot of beer to Hot break in my Kettle, so i was running some calcualtions. Here is my question. When you increase the amount lost to trub, the calculator just keeps increasing the preboil amount. So, lets...

I have a question regarding boil off. Does anyone know if the size your are boiling affects the amount per hour than boils off? In Beersmith you put in a percentage like 15% for the boiloff. But then if you change the batch size from 5 gallons to 10 the boiloff goes up also. This doesn't...

Wow, that looks awful.

I just brewed a Pilsner and I have a question. I was planning to ferment it at 50 degrees for about 10 days. Then I was going to bring it to 55 for 2 days for a diacytal rest. Here is the question. At this point can I put it in a corney, still in on co2 in my keezer and let it lager for 14...

Well, this is exactly what I thought. There doesn't seem to be an answer. When I first started all grain, I used the exact amount of water for the sparge per Pro Mash and I would often come up short. Later I just started filling the hlt with water (14 gallons) and constantly maintaining a 1...

Thanks everyone for the help. So in working with Palmers Spreadsheet and distilled water I come up with the following additions for 10 gallons of water. Epsom Salt .7 gm, Calcium Chloride .4 gm, Baking Soda .3 gm, Chalk .4 gm. With that the water would be: CA 7.1, MG 2, Na 2.2, S04 7.2, Cl...

Thanks, I actually use Palmers RA spreadsheet. Are you saying then that I can use RO and distilled water interchangeably. So in Palmers spreadsheet I could put 100% distilled when actually using RO water and then add minerals from there. Tom

OK, I have one more simple question. I have been going back and forth between batch and Fly sparging. There is one thing I don't understand with fly sparging. Please tell me if this is the correct way to Fly sparge. Currently, I have my HLT full to the top 14 gallons, I start my sparge with...

All, Does anyone know what the difference is between RO water and distilled. I don't mean the process either, but the finished product. The bottom line to my question is I have a place to get RO water cheap and I wanted to know if you can brew with 100% RO water as an AG brewer. or is it...

All very funny comments. Thanks for cheering me up a little bit. I was very bitter yesterday, but today I am already thinking in my head about the batch I will brew on Saturday. And yes, I think Steve is right, I need to do a double batch this week. Does anyone know if Wyeast Activator packs...