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I am going to start doing all grain brewing sometime soon. I had an old 5 gallon round cooler mash tun with a false bottom and I just got a free 10 gallon round cooler so I decided to convert that 10 gallon one using the stuff from the 5 gallon. The false bottom is too small for the 10 gallon...

Yeah I looked at that BIAB post before. It looks doable. Say I wanted to retry this recipe in a grain bag with my 8 gallon kettle, how much less than a five gallon batch would I be expecting? I also think I could manage making my own 10 gallon mash tun eventually. Thanks!

Awesome thanks. That's a start!

Thanks for all the info guys! Yeah once I looked up the differences in the yeast I saw that is probably an issue. It's not like the beer tastes gross but it just tastes nothing like I was expecting. I may let it dry hop a couple of more days then bottle. As to moving to all grain, I was...

I was thinking that the lower attenuation could be the culprit. Continuing to dry hop is probably for the best. How long can I dry hop before I get issues from that? Should I just keep what's in there now (2 oz Centennial pellets) or add more? Thanks again for the help! Edit: I was also...

Two weeks ago. After the first 5 or 6 days, the specific gravity didn't change. I did rack it to the secondary though so if it wasn't done fermenting would I be able to to pitch more yeast into it?

So I am in the middle of doing my first batch now. It's the stone ruination clone that is listed here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f69/stone-ruination-clone-155771/ I did an extract, full boil with a big starter. The recipe calls for 8lbs DME. I added the full amount at boil but now I'm...

That's true for most acids. HF will eat right through glass.

...many acids will eat through plastic. They use HF in breaking bad (how a high school teacher had access to tons of HF in his classroom is beyond me). HF will eat through anything that isn't a fluorocarbon. HF will eat through many types of plastics, except rubbers and polyethylene. Star san...

So I had a question about the original recipe posted. For extract, is the late DME addition for a partial boil only? I did a full boil (6 gallons of water), steeped the crystal malt for 30 minutes and added all 8lbs of DME at boil. After racking to the secondary, it tasted a lot sweeter than I...

Hmm, I did my first brew with this recipe and I got 1.075 (1.074 then correcting for the temperature of 70F up to 1.075). I did do a full boil, however (6 gallons boiled down to ~5 gallons with 8lbs of light DME and 1lb of Crystal Malt steeped). And as to my previous question about the beer...

I just finished my first brew ever today. Used this recipe (did 8lbs light DME with 1lb Crystal in steep). It came out much darker than I thought it would. Does it lighten up as it ferments or did I do something wrong? I got an OG of 1.075 so thats pretty good news so far for my first brew. I...