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I siphon the beer from the fermenttor into the bottling bucket. I add the sugar water to bottling bucket. I see only disadvantage to adding to the fermentor, then transfer. The bottling bucket method gives me a last chance to dial the sugar level. How? I make up 1 liter of my priming sugar. The...

I would try the previous suggestions. Also try long making a hop tea. Put a couple cones in some boiling water, let them steep, draw off samples, 0, 5, 15, 30:and 60 minutes and chill. Sample and compare. Trust your tongue and nose to tell you what you can do with the hop

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I do not know about this. Seems to me that a guy that wants to start explore All Grain and BIAB techniques, a grain mill is more of a luxury. Any place he gets his grains can crush them as well. He will have more important things to work out before he can begin worrying about how fine to...

I have a BrewCommander and like it. I consider an EZBoil based controller a valid alternative. The tie breaker for me was the BrewCommander, you cannot fiddle with it. As a chronic, compulsive fiddler and tweaker, I went with the device that only thing I can do with it is use it. The...

If 3 gallons of wort in a 5 gallon fermentor made bad beer, beer from open fermentation would suck.

Seems to me you are about a bag away from trying out an all grain BIAB. May not be the all out ideal perfect set up, but it will get you going. As an extract brewer, you now how to make beer after the mash step. Get a basic moderate OG recipe. If it were me, I would dial down the batch size...

It is not uncommon for appliances to have a temperature limited fuse-like component. Typically they are silver with a plastic nose and look like a resistor. Exceed the temp and your appliance shuts down. They are a one and done, no reset - you have to replace the component. Look and see if...

+1 I do not know what the little bits of grain will do for your beer. If you have those grains on hand and want to throw them into the mashtun with an "Oh Well. What The Heck." attitude, you can. I would not order that grain bill and have that many line items in your Grain BOM.

Is the London ESB yeast the stuff below? I used that once and was not happy with the results. I do not know exactly what casused things to go wrong. Perhaps an aggrate of errors. The fermtation was not smooth. I have seen reviews also have unfavorable things to say about the yeast. I will never...

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How does the beer taste? Does it taste sweet, dry, balanced, or what? Are you happy with the beer? What do you want change, if anything? The answers to the questions dominate what you do going forward.

The higher volume wort post sparge will increase your mash efficiency. Can can boil the excess wort to evaporate water out of yoru wort and increase the OG. Maybe boil do 120 minutes and start adding your hops at the 60 minute mark. The purpose of the first 60 minutes is to concentrate the...

If you want to increase OG, collect more wort preboil. Then do a long, long boil. The greater the volume collected during the mash, the higher mash extraction efficiency. The longer boil will increase your OG.

If the mess was caused by Morebeer's less than adequate packing job, let them know. They are smart and customer service savvy that they will make it right. If they take too long, and you do not want wait, buy a second kit and use that for your first batch. I expect you will make many batches of...

I call it the false "A Homebrewer's Razor." If you fail to execute any step or process perfectly, your home brew is doomed, ruined, destination to be vile, undrinkable, an embarrassment to all things that are beery. The counter is St Charlie P's pearl: RDWHAHB. I say, "Take what the beer...

That is a good bit if kit at a good price. You can brew up a bunch of beer with that. You do not need a mill to do your first all grain.

Fermentis has has 4 dry ciders. You can get a brick if that is what you need to pitch a healthy cell count. https://fermentis.com/en/fermentation/active-dry-yeast-cider/

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I have both the Brew In A Bag and a Wilser bag. I really like the convenience of the Brew In a Bag and the four straps and the loops. Makes it easy to gather up the straps put them on snap hook and raise up the bag. A Wilser bag has the two ends of the rope that draws and cinches the bag...