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I don't remember where it came from so I can't credit the author (and can't attest to its accuracy), but I have a little table I printed off of some website that converts grain to extract. According to the table, 1 lb. of grain would yield the equivalent of to 0.6 lbs of DME. 1.5 lbs of grain...

Already been said, but Deschutes Inversion gets my vote.:drunk:

I made an imperial stout one time. I left in a tertiary carboy for a year without looking at it, bottled it, and then waited about 3 months to try it. It was okay but not great . . . I figured I'd screwed something up so I started making black and tans with a Fat Tire clone. (The flavor was...

"There are starving children in Africa who would love to have that beer - now drink it you ingrate!" Compliments of a childhood with frequent bouts of Hamburger Helper.

Yeah, from the "out" end of my copper coil I have about 5' of silicone hose running up to the sparge arm. Sparge arm sits about 5 or 6 inches above the grain bed. I imagine on warmer days I would lose less heat though so it's probably something that will need a little tweaking every time I...

Yeah, a friend of mine did the barleywine thing recently. Said he mashed 33 lbs of grain and used the first runnings for a barleywine that came out at 5 gallons of something like 1.09-10 OG wort. Then sparged and got 8 gallons or so of pale ale wort at 1.04-05 OG. Sounds like a fun brew.

Alright, I'll step out on a limb here and be the first to say that I don't think it makes a HUGE difference . . . for me anyway. Maybe there's something wrong with my nose but if I want to get a good sniff of a beer I can manage to do it pretty well from a standard pint glass. I think most of...

I hate to tell you this, but despite your efforts I think you still have a sanitation issue. This will be redundant if you've already heard it but every single thing that your beer touches after the boil must be 100% sanitized. Chiller, siphon hoses, primary, racking apperatus, secondary...

Yeah, I have the march 809 and it's good but as previously stated it kind of takes some fiddling to figure out how to get it primed. Also, if there's a bunch of liquid on the "out" side putting back pressure on the pump it won't want to work. As I recommend in a different thread a couple...

Yeah, I agree with the other guys. I've got a lot of teflon throughout my system and have no probs.

My HERMS system is pretty knew so I'm won't claim to have a ton of experience with it. My heat exchanger is heated in the HLT, which is made of a converted sanke keg (as are my MLT and my boil kettle). I used about 50' of 1/2' ID copper tubing. I have thermometers on both the HLT and the MLT...

I have the exact set up you've described. I know for a fact that grain particles are running through my pump and it hasn't hurt anything yet. As far as compacting the grain bed this hasn't been a problem. I recirculate my mash using the pump at full throttle and have no probs. As far as...

In a pinch I've used a standard 3/8 hose as a blow off before. Put the hose into your stopper - kind of a tight fit but you can do it - and then put the stopper in the carboy. Other end of hose in a bucket of sanitizer. I'm guessing that your extreme fermentation is probably due to a...

Yeah, I think the Brewmometer is available at pretty much every supply house that I've ever used. Midwest, Northern Brewer, BBB. There are also other brands, but the Brewmometer has the handy little indicators on the face and I seem to recall that it was pretty affordable . . . around thirty...

I'm back after a long HBT hiatus. I finally got my AG system built (pic in gallery) and brewed my first batch of generic pale ale a week ago. Most of my problems were equipment related and can be fixed with a little tweaking for next time. My biggest goof of the day was using WAY too much...

My new all-grain system.

Anybody know which variety(s) of wheat are typically used in brewing? I know a lot of farmers who'd give me free grain in exchange for a little end product. Hard? Soft? White? Red? Winter? Spring? Anybody know? I see both red & white varieties on supply house websites, but they also...

I like the Runiation a lot . . . generally agree w/ Mr. Krispy. AHU

I concur with your "citrusy, grapefruit" flavor description for the Inversion IPA. I'm not very good with technical evaluations of flavor profiles so that's why I didn't include one in my original post. I'm curious about what kind of hops they used. I think the label says "Northwest hops"...

That's nothin'! I didn't smoke pot, pot smoked me!! Oh wait . . . is that a public service anouncement? Or did that really happen? I can't seem to remember . . .