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I crushed 22 lbs of grain with a hand crank in just over 30 minutes the other day. I can do 8 in about 10. I kind of like using the hand crank mill.

Good to know. thanks

IPA that I went a little crazy on the hops. I love brewing drunk.

I would love to try it and see what pbr has come from. I can't lie but I have gotten drunk off pbr once or twice.:drunk:

Had the same problem this morning. After 4 days of fermentation on my wee heavy I thought I was safe and stoped checking on it every few hours. Caught it just in time but from now on I will be installing blow off tubes on all my high gravity beers

Never had that problem but I use Ale Pales. I have noticed that some are harder to open and close. I might try a rubber mallet to get it started but I would also be affraid of cracking it so... just drink a beer and forget about it.:drunk: As long as its covered it should be fine.

I caught my wee heavy this morning just before it blew. The three piece airlock had pluged up and the top of the bucket looked like a baloon. I think from now on I will use a blowoff tube for all my high gravity beers.

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Amen brotha

I always do this with pellet hops and I have never had a problem. I do strain whole hops out though I wonder how it would work if i left those in too. Maybe I will do an experiment with my next batch.

Do a search for yeast washing illustrated. It will tell you everything you need to know. I am about to try this myself for the first time so i can't give any advice myself.

Don't worry about it. A lot of people do this with every batch.You will just have more sediment.

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According to beersmith the OG should have been 1.045. That doesn't mean thats what it was but it was probably somewhere around there. Doesn't make much of a difference either way.

great thread! I usually keg but I still plan on bottling certain brews that I want to hang on to longer than a couple of weeks. I like the idea of the dip tube and the bottling wand right on the end of the spigot. Thanks

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I only use my lid when I am storing my kettle to keep stuff out of it. I also use a wort chiller so it only takes about 15 min for me to get the wort cooled to about 80 and in the primary. I would probably use the lid if I used an ice bath.

they work great. mine takes 5 gallons from boil down to about 80 in 12 minutes. can't live without it.

Thanks for the great thread! I just made a very simple pale ale 4 days ago and it is already done fermenting and the gravity sample I took tastes good! Without reading this thread I probably would have waited 3 or 4 weeks before kegging this but now I will have it on tap this weekend.:mug: