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Chiming in for some clarification for myself... if OP did decide to increase the boil time, and reduce the hop dosage to compensate to achieve the same IBU, wouldn't that still change the end flavor? A 15 minute boil with all of the hops would provide what would normally be considered a late...

Alright, thanks... sounds like I'm in the ballpark then... my numbers had me with a total of 5.4 oz of hops. Any chance you recall the amounts/times of your hop additions? I was trying to stay close to the OP 25 IBU... although I switched mine up in Beersmith to sit at an even 30 IBU... And...

So I've entered the recipe into Beersmith as a 3.5 gal recipe (3.5 gal into primary... figuring I'll get maybe 2.75 gal packaged). The boil and whirlpool hops are fine, I scaled to hit the target IBU. But as I still don't really know what the batch size was for the original recipe, I'm kind of...

If you plan on only doing 2.5 gallon batches you should be fine with the 5.5 gal mash cooler. If you do a full volume boil, again for a 2.5 gal batch, so maybe around 3.5-4 gal Pre-boil volume, a 5 gallon kettle should be fine.

That's what I was wondering... In which case I should treat it as a 6 gal batch.

Yeah I'm used to scaling with beersmith, for IBU especially I'm just not sure what to consider the batch size for the original recipe as posted... Is it truly a 5gal batch (5gal into primary)? And I'm not sure if Beersmith is equipped to properly scale dryhops? The 7.5 gal post boil is...

Considering trying a small batch of this, for fun (I bottle so it likely will not really work, but I kind of want to try) ... But I'm a bit confused. Op says batch size is 5 gal, and post boil is 7.5 gal... Does that actually mean you have 2.5 gal loss from kettle to primary? I usually think...

I know I'm mostly preaching to the choir here, but... This is a brew I made last July. It was my first attempt at all-grain brewing and it was mediocre. Was meant to be a pale ale (Edhaus Bee Cave Haus Pale Ale) but something went wrong and it came out more like a blonde ale, but tasted...

She's pretty much good to go! Could use a few more days to finish carbonating but it's close. Really tasty brew! Thanks for the recipe, I'll be making this again.

Like others, I use editing software (I use Photoshop) to create labels, then I print them on plain white paper, cut them to size , and I stick them to the bottles with a thin coating of milk. They hold on great, and come off easily with some warm water. Only down side is you can't get the...

Did another FG check yesterday, and it's dropped another couple points... apparently she aint quite done yet. Sitting at 2.5 weeks primary currently, don't think I've had a batch take this long to finish before. Still hopeful I'll be good to go with bottling this weekend or early next week.

Checking FG on my scaled OktoberFAST ale, sitting right around 1.018 or 1.017, which is right where it should be. I'll give it another reading in a few days, but hoping I'll be bottling this up next weekend, and have it ready for drinking right around New Years or shortly thereafter. Hydro...

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I've only tried this once... pouring from kettle to primary, with a grain bag in the primary to catch the goop.... the bag very quickly clogged up with hop debris, preventing any more wort from pouring through. I had to stop my pour, lift the bag, attempt to let it drain (it didn't), then do the...

Rury, did you ever test your hydrometer in water yet, as suggested? Even if you don't have easy access to distilled water, regular tap water should still measure close to 0, ruling out a bad hydrometer.

From all the debris on the side of the bucket, it appears like SOMETHING has happened in there in terms of active fermentation. Maybe you just missed witnessing it?

When you say you "watch it for a minute", do you mean you place the sample , close the glass, and then let it sit a minute before taking a reading?

Brewed as per the OP (scaled for volume) this past Sunday. My efficiency was a few points low, so OG was a touch on the low side. Colour into the primary looked awesome, nice coppery wort. Fermenting in the 63-66F range (though it did drop to 61F for a couple hours at one point), and this...

I made this recipe as per the original post (scaled to my batch size), and it's been about 3 weeks since they were adequately carb'd (bottle conditioned), so I'm about 6 weeks total in the bottle at this point. When drank the first few bottles after carbing, it was a very nice, mildly roasty...