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I usually follow directions/recipes to the letter the first time I brew or cook them, but I got to thinking that I've got two spare 3 gallon fermenters sitting around not doing anything right now. What if I leave half the recipe as is in one and in the second one dry hop it and end up with two...

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If you are trying to simplify things, have you thought about doing full volume mash BIAB? No need to sparge. I use this calculator, but you'll have to figure out your boil off rate, trub loss and grain absorption yourself. For me its .5G an hour, about 0.05 gallon trub loss per gallon and my...

Well after reading the first 71 pages of this thread last week, I was in the neighborhood of my local home brew store so I stopped by and picked up the stuff to brew this. Not sure when I'll get around to it as I'll be at the ranch all week for Thanksgiving, but sometime soon hopefully. Thanks...

I'd say the equipment upgrades I wish I had from the start are: fermentation chamber (I use a small dorm fridge and an inkbird to control it) Wilser BIAB bag

Not me. I've cut my batches to 1 to 3 G, BIAB all on my stove. The longest walk is carrying the fermenter into the other room to put in the fermentation chamber. Open concept house, so I can watch tv from the kitchen, or walk a few steps and sit down on the couch. Yesterday I got up with my 3...

Wish you the best of luck, ApolloSpeed and when you get up and running, Please let us know. If I'm ever in the area, I'd stop by for a pint or three. My travels usually take me around DFW, Goliad and Corpus so maybe you will be near one of them. Same to you @jalc6927 We stop down Waco a few...

After one batch, you'll figure out a way to power it. It was a PITA just doing a few one gallon batches. It'll give your arm a workout.

I originally set mine with a credit card, but eventually tightened it down all the way. I'm running a harbor freight 1/2" drill. Corded, as it seems like every time I need a cordless power tool, the batteries are dead. Oh, and I'm using a Wilser bag. I'd be afraid to crush that fine and use a...

9645.5 + 1 G Rye P.A. +1 G Bourbon Dubbel + 3 Gallon Citra Pale Ale 9650.5

Welcome from Rowlett. Interesting ideas ya got there.

1) The glass carboy, airlock and racking cane can be used over and over. You'll get quite a few uses out of the tubing, but tubing eventually needs to be replaced as it gets old. The only thing you need to buy for each new batch is the grains, hops and yeast. You can buy their refill kits, or...

What suburb did you move from? Not sure, but doesn't the North Texas Municipal Water District pretty much provide water to the whole area? Their site says they provide the water for Frisco. https://www.ntmwd.com/our-water-system/

I would either use a one gallon glass carboy or pick up a 2 gallon bucket at Lowe's and drill a hole in the lid for an airlock. For a one gallon batch, you're going to get 8-10 120z bottles. Bump it up to a 1.5 gallon batch and you'll likely get around a 12 pack...

8953 + 1 G Amber Ale + 1.5 G blonde ale = 8955.5G

Glad your beer turned out ok. I did something similar on one of my last two batches. I got to my strike temperature, doughed in, checked the temp and it was up in the high 160's somewhere (don't remember where, I'm at work without notes) and realized I had never turned off my element. Turned off...

Congratulations on your first brew. Good tip on having a screwdriver on hand for you chiller. I don't see that mentioned often, but I've had leaks before. None got in the beer as I was able to catch it in time and I always keep one on hand just in case.

Shipping kills it. You can get a custom bag from Wilser plus a hop bag, a dry hop bag and a pulley for $37 including s/h. I've got two, one for my 1G batches and 1 for my 5G batches and couldn't be happier with them

There's nothing wrong with doing a dunk sparge or a pour-over sparge, but if you really wanted to do a full volume mash, you could always cut down your batch. I don't know your system variable (trub loss, boil off rate or absorption), but I'm sure you could do a 4 G batch and it would fit.

1 G Stout 1 G Russian Imperial Stout = 8443 Gallons