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Just finished my MaltMeister 3000 yesterday. Now the only thing left to do is to make some beer! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I bought a couple 5 gallon igloo coolers. One I'm converting to a mash tun with false bottom and ball valve. If I only plan on using the other as a vessel for holding the hot sparge water/strike water, can I just use the original, factory spout with that came with the cooler to pour water into...

Am thinking of building a round cooler MLT and going to conventional all grain method from my brew in a bag method. I have been doing 2.5 gallons batches but would like to step that to at least 2.75 or 3 gallons to account for trub loss which was greater than expected. Anyway, I bought the...

Just brewed this tonight. 2.5 gallon BIAB. I've been hitting higher OG on my last three BIAB all grains. Don't know what's up with that. Had to add some water to dilute it down to an OG of 1.067ish. Hope it turns out well. Pitched most of a pack of Safeale-04. Got a blowoff tube connected...

Thanks guys. I was curious about the moister...it's a brand new fridge and haven't had moister issues just yet but I don't want to ruin the bag of sugar. I'll take it out and in the future I'll just store in cabinet. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I bottled a beer a couple weeks ago with dextrose but only used a small amount of a 5 oz pack. I put the remainder in a ziplock freezer bag and placed in my beer fridge. Will the priming sugar stay good for a bottling in another week or so? I assume it would but curious if anyone has had a...

Hey guys and gals, hoping to get some input on this recipe. Background: This is a recipe of a beer that a local brewery makes which is AMAZING. I was skeptical of the copper lager when it was suggested to me and described "like an IPA." As a hophead I wasn't expecting much but, wow...

Again, I've got limited experience with the technique but, yes. I went to Lowes and bought a 5 gallon paint strainer bag. 2 pack for something like 3 bucks. Worked perfectly and fit well around the top of my kettle.

So what app can I use to properly scale back to 1 gallon or even 3 gallon if that's what I wind up doing? I have beersmith on my phone and it has a "scale recipe" function although I find it very cumbersome to scale any recipe to a 1 gallon BIAB. Anyone done this before?

This is all good information...I have already started 1 gallon of porter and I'm enjoying the BIAB process, however, I agree that perhaps scaling back this much might give me undesirable results due to perhaps magnifying small errors as the batches get smaller. I think I will be doing some...

1- This was my first All Grain batch and it was Brew in a Bag so I don't have any experience with conventional AG 2- That's what I did. I took a 5 gallon generic smoked porter and just divided by 5 for grain/hops. We will see how it turns out. 3- I got some of those glass carboys from...

I just had this happen to me about a week ago...using Norther Brewer's Black IPA kit. I think the directions say 1.25 gallons to start the boil but I found out I lost about .5 gal during the 45 minute boil. I did a batch the next day of the stout and started with more like 1.75 and wound up...

Thanks. I have thought of just taking the Midwest supplies instructions and straight up using their grain bill, hops schedule, etc for my first AG 1 gallon BIAB batch and then maybe scale back some other 5 gallon recipes if that turns out well.

Thanks guys, it sounds like, while I've got a lot to learn through experience, I have the general idea. It's very reassuring to hear. Now I'll try it out!

Did you brew those AG or extract? In either case, mind sharing where you got the recipe? Am hoping to do some BIAB AG 1 gallon batches soon. thanks.

Hey everyone on the BIAB board, I've been really bit with the AG bug. It started when I was looking for a new kit to brew (been about 6 months since my last/first 5 gallon extract) and ran across the Micro-Bru series of 1 gallon all grain batches on Midwest Supplies website. I have...

I am relatively new to brewing. Only one 5 gallon extract IPA kit under my belt last year. I've now been bitten by the homebrew bug big time, again, and found myself with two small, 1-gallon extract batches in two small 1 gallon carboys. I guess there's a lot of opinion on "why go that...

Almost all done! It has been a while since I posted any finished pictures but my progress was slowed down quite a bit.

Bought 1 1/4" galvanized pipe from Lowes and, with a few elbows, nipples and floor flanges, finished adding the footrest. The store was able to cut the 10' section I bought down to size and also thread the ends for free.

Day Five I've been planning on putting a nice mirror behind the bar but I didn't just want a plain ol' Generic Name Beer mirror you can buy, nor did I want to pay upwards of $300 for one you buy already made with the shelf and all. So what I did was buy a $37 mirror at Lowes measuring...