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After looking back on my day, all I can think is "What the hell happened?" It's not that I jacked anything up, it's just a little misjudgment here, a little number fudging there that turned into a FUBAR'd recipe. However, it was executed pretty well, considering. Allright, first on the...

Look at the recipe a little closer. 3.5 quarts = almost one gallon. Hops: I've seen posts from Revvy stating a partial boil wort would do good with about 20% more hops than the original recipe calls for, but I haven't gone and done a side-by-side yet.

Alright, mash in with 8.5 quarts (q) of 165F water, added grain and into the oven at 150 for 60 min. Dunk sparge with 8q at 178F for 10 min, then did a "pour over" with a colander into my 8.5q of wort for a total of about 16q of liquor, then I topped off to 19q for the boil. Took about 20...

So, I wanted to try a porter recipe with my new 5-gal stock pot. I decided I wanted to do a full boil, Partial Mash recipe. So I started out with EdWort's Bee Cave Brewery Robust Porter... https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f126/all-grain-bee-cave-brewery-robust-porter-56768/ However, to scale...

Well, primary for 7 days, no cold crash (Fermented at about 66-68), and 2 weeks in the bottle. Popped my first (2nd/3rd) last night and was instantly satisfied with my improvements. I'll try getting a pic of this fantastic brew this week, but awesome so far. Thanks for the help HBT.

After posting my first partial mash step-by-step for a critique here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/posting-critique-bbd-brown-biscuit-265542/ I had a bottle last night. A little light on the carbonation, but the flavor was awesome. A little sweet, a little nose, a lot of awesome...

Wasn't happy with the open cooler setup, so I went to Lowe's yesterday and got an Igloo Ice Cube and a sheet of 2" rigid insulation. The only question I have with that setup is - Why didn't I do that sooner? Granted, I did have to cut 2 pieces for the 6.5 gal carboy, but this is great. 40...

^ Great explanation.

(I partially agree if you're doing full boils, but) How? I do a 2 gallon boil on the stovetop with 5 gal of ingredients, fill carboy and top off to 5 gal. I do a 3 gallon boil on the stovetop with 5 gal of ingredients, fill carboy and TOP OFF to 5 gal. What did I miss?

Topped off the carboy to get to 5 gal. Mixed the hell out of it, took a gravity, pitched the yeast. Actual OG - 1.059@ 70F. Awesome. Alright, there it is. Active fermentation started almost immediately, with bubbling out of the blowoff tube w/in 4 hours. I have cooled the primary to...

First time straining beer on its way into the fermenter. I was a little worried about plugging it up, but looks like whomever put this on the shelf at the LHBS knew what they were doing... Just enough in there to make me feel good about it. Temp is just showing on the meter here...

The meaning of life? Why, BEER, of course! Uneventful boil (no boilover, sweet). Noticed I probably boiled off 1 to 1.5 quarts of water. Should I back off on the temp? Just keep it at a mild boil? After the 60 min boil, into the "wort chiller" it goes... aka the pool, in front...

First, got everything together for the steeping. Didn't take a pic of the mash before the oven, but I got 4 quarts of water to 158F for the steep, added the grain, and got about 153F after a few minutes of stabilizing. Into the oven at 150 it goes... After 30 mins, I have 4 quarts of...

Alright, first shot here at Deathbrewer's Partial Mash sticky with ChshreCat's "BBD Brown Biscuit" English Brown recipe... I'm posting this for people to peruse the steps/pics and chime in with anything right/wrong/weird you see, so I can do it better next time. Here goes... Recipe: 6#...

From a "knocking the dust off" brewer... Might be a little fat on the water side of things. You can do two different things here, but the ingredients list (amount) is for a 5-gal batch. Either 1) Use the 5 gal boil water and "top off" your fermenter when you add the wort to get to 5...

Hey there from San Diego, CA. Name's Jeremey, and I forgot how much I love a good HB. Did a LOT of HB'ing with my Dad when I was in high school, before I joined the Navy. Haven't touched the stuff from 2000-2011, until a friend mentioned going up to the Stone Brewery for a tour. The first...