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Two questions: 1.) Can you explain the purpose for the higher mash temp? Is it to increase efficiency? 2.) What is the purpose of the 90 minute boil? Do I just boil 30 minutes with no hops, then add hops according to schedule? Thanks for all your help! I'm very excited to brew on Sunday!

Great!! Thanks! I will look into it. I'm probably going to go winging it style this time. I'll be more of a Walter White next beer

What would be the steps involved if I didn't wing my ph? Or is that a whole different can of worms?

Batch sparging. So, recirculate at first to establish a grain bed, then take first runnings. See where I'm at and then add that much sparge water? Should I heat this water up to perform a mash out? Or should I just hear it to approx 156? I'm sorry for totally noobing out here everyone, but I...

So should I use 1.25 quarts of water/1 pound of grain, or 1.5? I ask because 1.25 gives me about 7 gallons of water, but 1.5 gives me about 10. That's a pretty big difference. Should I base it on my mash efficiency?

Thanks everyone!! I will use this formula from now on!!

So, I'm going to go ahead and brew this beer this Sunday. This is the biggest beer I have ever brewed, so I want to make sure I do it right. I'd like to mash at 152 for about an hour. Given the grain bill, how much water should I use for the mash? And for the sparge? I can calculate strike...

Wow! Thanks for the great explanation! I think I'm going to go with Jamil's recipe for a few reasons: 1) I've never been disappointed in a Jamil recipe. 2) This traditional process sounds a little advanced for me. Maybe in the future I will attempt it, but I'm still trying to get my brewing...

Thanks for all the great information everyone, but I've decided to go with a 5 gallon, all-grain batch. In this way I'll be able to brew exactly what Jamil calls for. When should I take these quarts from the brew pot? After the complete boil? During the boil? I'm just boil this down to get a...

I might be ok with losing some OG by just using the 30 pounds. 9% ABV is a little high anyway. I want it to be strong, but I'm thinking 7% is closer to what I'd like

40 pounds of grain seems like a bit much, I'm not sure if my mash tun can hold all that, plus at least 12.5 gallons of water. I'm thinking about only doing 30 pounds of the base malt.

Nice. Easy answer. I Iike those! Thanks!

Hello everyone, I plan to brew Jamil's recipe for a Scottish Strong Ale which you can find here. I plan to do an all-grain, 10 gallon batch. I was thrown off when I saw that he recommends 4 US-05 yeast packets. Should I just double the grain, hops, and yeast? I'll be fermenting in two...

Yikes. I was afraid of that. If I'm going to keep doing this I should probably get some of that software. I tasted the hydrometer sample, and although it was bitter, it wasn't severe. It should mellow out a bit. I did a couple of IPAs around 93 ibu before, and I wasn't wowed. We'll see what the...

Yikes. I was afraid of that. If I'm going to keep doing this I should probably get some of that software. I tasted the hydrometer sample, and although it was bitter, it wasn't severe. It should mellow out a bit. I did a couple of IPAs around 93 ibu before, and I wasn't wowed. We'll see what the...

What do you guys think? I'm still trying to learn recipe building. Was the hop schedule ok? Or will this beer come out too bitter to enjoy?

I'm worried that it's going to be too bitter, but well see how it goes

So I went with 2oz 60 min Warrior 16% AA 1oz 45 min chinook 12% AA 2 oz Citra 30 min 12% 1 oz cascade 30 min 12% 1oz chinook 30min 12% 1oz Citra 5 min 12% 1 oz cascade 5 min 7.1

Ok. So then: 90min boil with my bitters? Or just boil for 30 in?

Like, should I still boil 60 min, but just add at those times? Or should I just do a 30min boil total?