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Hello friends, I need help deciding what special quad I should brew for this holiday season: Pannepot Grand Reserva or Rochefort 10 clone? Pannepot calls for Wyeast3522, which I always have on hand, and only 1 pound of candisyrup. Not too expensive to brew, and it's a highly regarded quad...

This is incredibly frustrating. I really need a grain mill. Brewed a 5 gallon batch of Barleywine tonight and missed my numbers by a huge margin. Recipe and stats: 20 lbs Maris Otter 0.5 lbs Caramalt 0.5 lbs Dark Crystal Mash at 150F for 75 minutes, recirculating on LOW flow. Mash thickness...

Thanks y'all! Fortunately we sold that house and bought a new one. Now I've got a large garage (and new-and-improved brewery!), and ample space to store/cellar beer. It stays pretty temperate out there in the garage--about 60 or so--so I'm thinking I might just store the bottles in a cabinet out...

Agree completely on it being linear. There's no way the mash tun *knows* to hit 75% efficiency at 15 lbs, and then arbitrarily decides to drop to 65% at 16 lbs.

Whenever I would batch sparge in my igloo cooler for large, high gravity batches, I had no choice but to double or triple batch sparge--I simply did not have the space to sparge with the amount of water needed to reach preboil volume. I remember these making for long brewdays, but IIRC I was...

I'm fermenting a 10g batch of Belgian Tripel and have brewed this exact recipe a half dozen times (OG 1.080, Wyeast 3522 Ardennes). My regimen is usually this: Day 1, brew Day 7, FG is reached (or very close) Day 14-17, package (if kegged, I let it sit cold and on gas for 2 weeks before...

Really enjoying this discussion; thanks everyone for contributing thus far.

Cool, thanks! I'm sure it's too young to really get a good sense of it yet--since you said you brewed it recently--but did you taste any prior to (or since) packaging? This is good to hear. I need to read up on Kveik yeasts for my own knowledge, too.I've been hearing a lot of talk about how...

I've been putting off an English Barleywine for at least a year now, which is a shame because it'd be just coming into its prime right now if I hadn't delayed! I get in my own way and want to get it right on the first go since my goal is to limit my consumption of it to a few bombers a year...

Has anyone tried to hook up a drill to that one? Wondering if it's possible to replace the handcrank with something and connect a drill to it. Interested. Hey Bobby, I do have a diptube attached to the inside of the mash tun. I have just under 2.5 gallons of "dead space" underneath the false...

Thanks! I don't feel I wasted my money on the setup either, as I enjoy my much more orderly brew days in the garage. I got to a point where I was set up "enough" and shifted my focus on buying ingredients to brew as building the setup took about a month of accumulating parts, drilling kettles...

Thanks everyone for the thoughtful advice! Thanks for the chart! That is interesting. I hear you on the higher OG beers resulting in lower efficiency.The Oatmeal Stout I made a couple weeks ago also had efficiency in the low to mid 70's, if I remember correctly. I only did a 5 gallon batch of...

I'm currently brewing a Belgian style Tripel with a 25# grain bill (10.5 gallon batch, mostly pilsner malt) on my 15 gallon eHERMS system. After 8 batches on this system and 80 or so to my name, this was the first time I ever messed with my mash pH. I noticed it was high (6.2 about 10 minutes...

Good to know! And I will be mindful of that--come to think of it, I've always been +/- a few gravity points on FG, even when I hit all other numbers on the dot. This could also explain the attenuation differences between brewing, say, a dubbel (more dark malts and more complex grain bill) than a...

Here's a screenshot from my Brewersfriend recipe (ignore the cost part--it was definitely more than that!). Also, instead of Crystal 45, I used Crystal 40:

I brewed an Oatmeal Stout with an OG of 1.050 on Monday, mashing at 154F for 60 minutes followed by a 170F mashout. I pitched a 1.3L starter of Wyeast 1318 into well aerated wort and put the carboy into a 66F fermentation chamber. The yeast was fresh--just a week old from Wyeast according to the...

Rad! Like half-price + connectors with the coupon they're running! Will pick one up tomorrow and get an Oatmeal Stout going. Thank you

Thanks gents! Sorry, I meant to say 4 prongs, with 1 of them being a ground. The whole 250A AC threw me off. Maybe that isn't worth paying attention to since the gauge and amperage tolerance is the same as what I've got. So it sounds like it'll fly, since its all 10 gauge wire rated for 30A...

I made a power cord out of 10/3 or 10/4 wire (10 gauge, 30A, max 7500 watts, 600V, locking 3-pole plug with ground etc) to power my Auber Cube 2E, which controls one 5500W element and two pumps. I moved my 3 vessel system across my garage and now need about 25ft of power cable as I don't want...

This took a little fiddling, which I later learned that everyone running a setup like this needs to experiment with. The short answer to your question is that YES I do have to set my HLT 2F higher than anything I'm trying to achieve in my MLT. I'm fine with that, now that I know it'll never...