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I bottle, but my only repeat beers so far are your Dogfish 60-minute IPA recipe and BM's Centennial Blonde. I like to keep around something dark (currently Orfy's Mild-Mannered Ale), something light (just about to bottle BM's Cream of Three Crops), something malty (currently nothing fits the...

Oh, thanks for the link to The Pol's explanation, Ron. I'd seen your question in that thread when you posted it but not his response! Thanks for everyone's help!

Yeah, but if that's the case, why don't you match the O.G. of a regular starter to the O.G. of the intended brew. Which I don't believe you're supposed to do. After all, "you're growing yeast, not making beer." But it's good to hear you've been successful with full-strength RWS. Anyone else...

Since I've recently switched to no-chill brewing, I ought to be able to make a Real Wort Starter (RWS) for my higher-gravity brews that call for a liquid yeast. How do I do it? How much wort should I steal for the starter, if I have a 1L beaker? Should I dilute it to 1.040 if it's much...

This looks nice; it's the simplest thing that works! I'm definitely in that camp myself; what's the cheapest, easiest thing I can make do with, and I'll fix it later if it turns out to be insufficient. -g-

I got 6 five-gallon batches out of my last propane tank. Four of those were all-grain, and two were extract / partial mash. I'm now using an electric HLT, though, so I expect to get more batches out of the current tank. I've done five so far, and the tank still weighs 23.5 lbs. Just my two...

Excellent. (rubs hands together, Monty Burns-style) By the way, I always appreciate these builds of yours. You've got a knack for thinking of some way to combine hot water and grain that others haven't tried before, and the discipline and engineering to see it through. You've also got me...

750 gallons + 5 gallons of BierMuncher's Cream of Three Crops, brewed on Jan 2 = 755 gallons

I just wait until the wort just cools down to near 180. Just getting it out of the hot kettle and pouring it through the air brings it down enough, IMO.

I've also been wondering about the RWS. Thanks for asking this.

My mail-ordered hop-sale hops still haven't arrived; that's what I get for shipping them cheap and SLOW. So I'm going to swing by my LHBS when they open Jan 2 to pick up some and then BREW. That's also what I get for cheating on my LHBS...

Maybe I'll revive this OLD thread for the new year, and not just because I've got a very low score. 42 posts (counting this one) / 70 gallons brewed = 0.6 ppg. Do I win?

Yeah, when I did an "easy" extract batch after a few all-grain batches, I forgot and boiled over, too. Happy New Year!

Here's my grain bill, just scaled down to 70% efficiency for us normal types: 6 lbs, 1 oz 2-row (76.98%) 14 ounces chocolate malt (11.11%) 12 ounces crystal 40L (9.52%) 2 ounces peated malt (1.59%) 1 ounce black patent (0.79%) Total grain bill: 7 lbs, 14 ounces (7.8625 lbs) Also, what do you...

I'll probably brew it in about a month. I'd already bought the grains for BierMuncher's Cream of 3 Crops to brew this week, and I would have brewed that today but my mail-ordered hop sale hops (and yeast) still haven't arrived. :( However, within a couple of weeks I should have run out of my...

By the way, are we going to stop this at the end of today and start a 2010 thread? Seems like a good idea....

Damn! I've been wanting to brew that all week, but I mail-ordered some hops over two weeks ago and they're *still* not here. Grr......

Not much to comment about. Congrats, though, and there's very little in homebrewing that can't be fixed with just waiting it out. Except boilovers, of course. :)

Very cool. Very cool indeed.

Where's the vote option for "Other"? I do the no-chill method. Used to use an IC, but when your tap water is 80F, you end up wasting a lot of water.