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Could Oxyclean be used as the sanitizer on brewday as well? I see a lot of people referring to it, but I would imagine it would need to be rinsed like mad to get rid of the baddies...

Catch-22, I was actually thinking that... But I just can't bring myself to do it....

Stainless, 9 gallons.

Hey Guys, So I was at a party this weekend and offered up my brew pot to boil about a dozen lobsters at a time. Once I was done, I made sure to clean it pretty good, but the pot still has the smell like the sea. Now, I was at the ocean, so it is possible that the water in general just...

Thanks for the reply. I used BeerSmith for the recipe calculations and setup my equipment, althought there are so many different options I may have missed something. My setup is pretty basic, 2 10 gallon igloo coolers, one with a false bottom. So there really isn't much to tweak. Beer...

Hey guys, Finished my first AG brew earlier tonight. A very nice Maple Pale Ale. Things went pretty well, although I ended up about a 1/2 gallon short on the sparge water. Which led me to wonder, how people here do their sparge. I followed beer smith to a T, but found ran out of sparge...

Thanks Denny. The LHBS has an electric mill, not a crusher, so I'm not able to get the numbers or anything from it, I guess that's part of my question. I hear a lot of people adjusting them, so I'm just trying to figure out why I would want to adjust the rollers, if that makes sense.

Hey guys, I have all of my equipment delivered now, except for the barley crusher I will be getting at the brewshop when I get my grains, just need to settle on a recipe. It being my first AG brew, I'm looking for something relatively simple. I also wanted to try and formulate my own recipe...

Hey Guys, I've been doing mini mash's for just about a year now (did my first brew last October) and am getting ready to jump into the All Grain sandbox. I've been pricing the cooler kits, parts, preassembled and individually and finally found a good deal at hombrewing.org. I bought my...

Wow, sounds good. I am wondering, how does one add chocolate chips to a recipe in beersmith?

Thanks Hang Glider, window screen is an interesting idea that never occurred to me. Do you remember where you got your FB from?

Hello all, I have been looking at getting one of the 10 Gallon Igloo coolers with a false bottom and ball lock valve. I have seen a couple different options for the false bottom and was wondering what the pros/cons are of each, and what people think about them. Some I have notice have a...

Thanks for the input guys. I have been looking at the prebuilt igloo cooler MLT setups this morning and noticed that they aren't as much as I had originally thought. I may just end up going with one of those. The question I have is, some have lots of small round holes in the False Bottom...

Hey all, I have, what I think is probably a pretty unique setup and was wondering how to set it up in BeerSmith so my numbers will come out accurate with as little editing as possible required by each batch. What I have for a HLT is just a basic bottling bucket, which is probably not all...

Thanks guys for all of the replies. I thought about putting some LME or DME in, but wasn't sure how it would work out. As it is, it sill likely be a 3.5% to 3.9% ABV, not horrible, but definitly not what I was hoping for. In hind sight, I was trying to think of ways to prevent this from...

Hey Guys, I made an Octoberfest last night and somehow managed to put an extra gallon of water into the pot and ended up with 6 gallons at the end instead of the normal 5.25 that I like to have. So the ABV is going to be a bit lower, is there any way to correct this after it is already in...

I don't mean to bring up an old post, but what types of yeast have people tried with this? I have heard that Red Hook uses the Pacific Ale strain of yeast, but was curious to know what people have tried. This is definitely going into my log as something to brew in the coming months and would...

thanks for the clarification. and sorry for the delayed response, I've been on vacation the past few days. it also says to steep and then rinse into the primary with 1/2 gallon of warm water, would it make any difference if I rinsed into the boil kettle and boiled that 1/2 gallon of water?

Hey guys, Quick question about a Octoberfest recipe I just got from my LHBS. I picked it up this morning and was just looking at some of the details on it. It says to heat pale malt in the oven at a certain temp, for a certain amount of time (sorry, don't remember details, had a few HB...