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How'd you know I'd recently got my first AARP magazine? Seriously, you turn 50 and people think your life is over. Hell, I have second grader!!

Sorry came of as a DB. After you're in the box time and time again, you'll mix up the green-with-black-ink with green and BLAMO.

No kidding. That's a recipe for disaster.

Interestingly enough, Cloudflare has no data centers in Texas. So if we're going to be really accurate...

Depending on where you live that couldn't be further from the truth (I'm thinking about all of you cheeseheads).

Nothing truer has been spoken. Just picked up a drywall lift for $109. Im hoping it lasts through the job of drywalling my garage ceiling!!

What is that Harbor Freight smell?? It's the same in every single store I've been to. I think it's mold release agent or something. Hope it's not carcinogenic.

Indeed. I suppose my question was specific to BIAB -- there really is no mashout.

Im confused. With respect to BIAB, what is a mashout? My recollection from HTB is primarily to halt enzyme activity effectively locking in the fermentable profile / mouthfeel of the final beer. I can think of no simpler way to mashout that to fire up the element(s) or fire up the burner...

You can pick up a sparkplug gap set for about $5 at any autoparts store.

That's a great price. I had been sourcing mine through Geemacher and they were $135 + shipping. Are their quarter barrels the short squatty ones (that to which we referred as a "pony" in high school) or the tall/thin size?

+1. You should read "Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation". (http://amzn.com/B00FE0LQ9A) and you'll realize how important the fermentation portion of beer making is. My beer quality took a huge jump after I (1) pitched the correct amount of yeast cells and (2) controlled...

I was 99.99% certain that's what you meant! That I can tell, the only downside to a basket is (a) cost and (b) need for a hoist / lift. If I can work out a fly-ish sparging to wring a bit of sugar from the grain I can see absolutely no reason to even look back at my 3V system. I just...

Do you mean your basket is supported by the elements?

Hmm. Great question. My efficiency was as expected. The mash above the basket just seemed thick compared to a picnic cooler tun. I may be worried about nothing. Of course the simply answer is to brew 10 gallon batches.

I think this is the best approach. My boil-off rate at 80% is 2.1 gallons / hour. I'll just retest at 100% and go from there. Lots of advantages with BIAB(asket) over bags.

Wow. 90 mins? Regardless of what the recipe calls for I go by a starch test -- quick / simple / accurate and generally negative at 40 minutes. FWIW I too get about 75% for moderate 1050 - 1070 brews. As for those temp flucs... I get them too and finally stopped worrying about them as my...

Well done!

The basket has a number of advantages over bags such at lautering and lazy-ass sparging (2 gallons boiling water in a stainless watering can). That would be tough with a bag.

True dat! But again, I've never wanted to make a IPA hazy on purpose!