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Usually the little balls are lead, though I’ve heard of other materials being used. I don’t think it’s enough lead to hurt you, but I for one wouldn’t test it. Also likely many shards of fine glass in there. Not worth $25-$50 bucks in my book.

That’s a pretty wide mill gap. The foundry has a basket for mashing, do you use a bag with it? I BIAB so take that into consideration, but my mill is set to about .325, which gets me fairly close to flour. This could explain your low conversion. Boiling a gallon off of that isn’t going to get...

5.5 is pretty low ph. Darn acid rain.

Would be interesting to see the water report on that.

You can brew with distilled water, you just want to add salts to the water. Definitely a bit of calcium. Play with a water calculator.

I’m partial to buying RO or distilled water from the store and building up from there. That said, I brew 2.5 gallon batches and it only takes 4 gallons. definitely don’t want spring water, which can have a lot of minerals and stuff you don’t want. I’d be worried about chlorine from the tap...

I wholeheartedly agree with what folks are saying here. Take measurements. My 2 cents is to force yourself to go slow on purchases beyond basics. Give yourself some time to see what you really want. Otherwise you will just be buying again and have equipment picking up dust. Good luck in this hobby.

I’ll take a code please. Thanks for making available again.

Sorry also for being late to the party. Would like the code if available.

This would go great with my inkbird temp controller.

Also consider adding half of the DME with around 10 minutes left in the boil. That lightened up my brews when I did extract. As for steeping grains, that depends on what other character you want.

I would also imagine the boiling wort would prevent this.

I have not experienced that with my 4 gallon fermenter. Seems like it goes to the bottom. Never left beer behind

Yes thank you

Without the germination process, there wouldn’t be any starches to convert. Even with enzymes.

Seems like it accomplishes both tasks.

Get your western friends to mule it into the country in their luggage if they want some. That’s what gets beer from me as a fellow ME brewer. I’m a stingy jerk with my home brew since I can make so little.

Hey Prohibition Brewer. I live in the less crazy but equally complicated country to your north. I have yet to find a barley I can may here. Can find pearled and pot barley but nothing that will germinate. I can oddly find flaked the, which is nice, but I resort to bringing in all of my...

Thanks for the clarifications Mike. It looks like a nice unit. Keep up the good work. I was looking at an Anvil 7gallon, but this looks like a worthy upgrade for minimal cost.