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according to the interwebs, brew in a bag is just a less efficient and more convenient form of mashing....ill take my sabco or coleman extreme cooler any day..i enjoy brew days and dont mind how long they are. My friends dad is an extract/partial extract brewer and i dont look down my nose...he...

what the hell is brew in a bag??

beersmith is a great tool to figure out how much water to mash with and how much to sparge with. Basically you would mash with X amount of water. Then when its done, pour some into a small sauce pan and dump it back on top (put a coffee can lid on the grain bed so when you pour it doesnt...

in my opinion on a home brew level, accuracy in terms of ounces probably doesnt matter....its when you want to produce the same exact beer is when accuracy matters. Its all in quantities too as hercher said...if you throw in 8 ounces of chocolate malt, and eyeball it to 5 ounces, that probably...

I made pineapple syrup, which now that I think about it, i did it wrong! I took like a small bag of cane sugar, water, and pineapple and let it sit and marinade. What i SHOULD have done was mix the water and sugar, heat it up so the sugar dissolves into solution and THEN add the pineapple and...

yeah, just getting in to 10 gallon batches which are the most conducive to splitting them, doing something to one and leaving the other plain.

No i have many beers under my belt but this is my first completely self designed beer. I did all the research on hop aromas and flavorings and on grains. I used beer smith to get my numbers right.

Update: I have my pineapple wheat in the keg and nicely carbonated. The pineapple flavor is non existent. I added only like 400 mL of pineapple syrup which obviously wasnt enough. I didnt want to add too much and ruin the beer. This way I can atleast have a decent wheat beer and I add lemon...

Just wanted to post this so people know the temperature range on these Hunter thermostats. For the digital thermostats, the settable temperatures, according to their websites FAQ, is from 40F to 95F.

try adding it a couple days into the ferment so the yeast has time to get the sugars you want them to get

i use a ruler and do volume calculations...i should probably just calibrate my brew pot lol

thanks so much for your help!!! I think i have decided to add .5 oz of motueka at 10 minutes to get my IBUs down a bit for the style, which will also increase the flavor. I think i will also add the other half ounce to the dry hop in primary. I am going to try the pineapple syrup in the...

Yeah i am using a mash tun, a converted coleman extreme cooler. so maybe do 5 lbs of each grain? I chose Saaz because it was described as having a spicy flavor and on norhternbrewer, the New Zealand motueka says that it has tropical citrus notes which i figured would go well with pineapple...

is going above the OG goal bad or good? How would I change my recipe to get within my goal?

i was thinking about making a pineapple syrup with cane sugar and pineapple (taken from a thread about a maple wheat, adding maple syrup to the boil and to bottling) and adding half to the boil and half later...i am kegging this by the way

I have no idea what i am going to do with the pineapple yet (this is kind of a challenge presented to me) here is my wheat beer recipe (please critique as this is my first one!) 5 gallon batch target OG - 1.044 - 1.052 50% - White wheat malt (probably 7.5 lbs) 50% - pale 2 row (with math...

shandy is some tasty stuff....great when its ice cold in the summer

thanks billl! yeah we didnt drain any wort before adding the 3 gallons...i didnt think that step was correct...will this affect our final product?

On saturday, me and a buddy brewed a scottish ale, and here is how we did it: heat up 7 gallons of water to 164 degrees F pour this water in the mash ton and then add 12.5 lbs of grains (do you guys have a method of getting the lumps out?) stir and let this sit for an hour at 155 degrees...

well, this was my first all grain recipe...things to remember: auto siphon, spend more time calculating how much water will be absorbed by grains, and calibrate my brew pot...going to reattempt this recipe in a few weeks