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If the fermentation has stopped, you can go ahead and bottle it. A lot of people bottle right away anyway. I routinely leave my beers in the primary for 3-4 weeks, but I know people who have done it for months without any trouble. You'd probably be okay, but I think I'd lean towards bottling...

I've got a number of AG (BIAB) batches under my belt now, and at least to my palate, they've all turned out quite good. I'm really curious about how water affects beer though. In other words, my beer is good, but would it be even better with a change to water? I just don't know. I still...

1796+5 = 1801 A great beer for the 100 degree heat we're having!

That should do it, although depending on what size batches you plan on doing you might just consider saving some money and getting one of the turkey frier kits from bayou. That's what my wife got me for Christmas - got the burner and 30 qt pot for about $60. the 30 qt pot on its own is big...

I've heard this a number of times, and I just can't wrap my head around the reason why squeezing the bag would extract tannins. All you're doing is "squishing" out water. How would this be different than just letting the water from the bag drain via gravity? Can someone explain the science...

It's the same story for me as some of the previous posters. I did one extract batch and didn't like the taste, so moved immediately to all-grain BIAB. For lighter session beers (up to around a 10 lb grain bill) I can actually do a full 5 gallon BIAB batch if I get creative in my use of pots...

I just brewed a batch of Centennial Blonde. Should be a good summer beer, and would easily be ready in your time window. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/centennial-blonde-simple-4-all-grain-5-10-gall-42841/

Good point. I should have taken a picture of the crush. My initial setting was too fine and it did rip everything to shreds, but after opening it up a little, it was pretty easy to get hulls that were pretty much left intact while the inside was broken up.

I just went out and bought a Corona mill tonight and brewed a 5 gallon batch of Centennial Blonde. I used the same process as all my other BIAB batches that had grain milled at the LHBS. Those batches were usually in the high 50% to low 60% efficiency range. Not exactly stellar! But tonight...

Okay, good to know! Maybe things will be alright after all. I'll let them condition for 3 or 4 weeks and see what the outcome is. I have been drinking heavier beers lately, so maybe I just haven't adjusted my taste buds to hot weather beer yet!:D

I'm only a few batches into brewing (BIAB) and up until this point haven't paid much attention to my OG. I had enough other things on my mind and just didn't get the importance of it yet. Now I think I get it.:o I just bottled a batch of strawberry blonde the other day, tasted it, and thought...

Probably true, but I know a lot of guys who get great efficiency with them, and their beer tastes the same as the beer made with the fancy mills. Saving the money and getting essentially the same quality final product is worth it to me. Probably not the best, but good enough for the money.

I just got into AG brewing (BIAB - love it!) a few months ago. On my first two batches I got pretty lousy efficiency, but chalked that up to inexperience. On my third batch I got even worse efficiency! In preparing for my next batch I went to the LHBS and bought my grain, ran it through their...

My bad - wrong thread. Can't delete the post for some reason. Sorry.

I was going to bottle a strawberry blonde today, but upon opening the secondary saw that it was incredibly hazy. So I figured it was as good of a time as any to try out gelatin and see if it would clear it. I got a pan sanitized to bloom the gelatin in, but then got distracted talking to...

I think I might have to rethink my strategy of 3-4 weeks in the primary and 4 weeks in the bottle. While this clone was good at 4 weeks, it still had a slightly "off" aroma to it and didn't finish as clean as a Spotted Cow. Forward to 5 weeks in the bottle and it's an entirely different story...

Tried a sample after 3 weeks in the bottle (after 3 weeks in primary). It was okay, but nothing to write home about. I was surprised that it tasted a lot like my first basic all extract amber ale. So I gave it another week...it's a different beer now! I'm amazed at the difference. There is...

There's no major chlorine in my water (can't taste any when I drink it straight from the tap anyway) and I didn't use bleach at all. The only possibility as far as a bleach kind of thing is that I used an unidentified sanitizer that came with my kit from the LHBS. It was a bag of white powder...

Nope, never used bleach. I use Star San now, but for that batch I used the powder in a bag that came with my kit. No idea what it was.

I've got 3 batches in bottles right now, and am drinking my first attempt at brewing, which was just a simple extract amber ale. I learned a lot from that batch, one thing being that I need to mix my priming sugar better when I bottle. I just poured the sugar water into the bottom of the...