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You have me waiting with bated breath!

I am interested to hear this, too! Mine never lasts long enough for this type of experiment.

I'm an English teacher. Your label made me cry :(

I usually hit my first sparge at around 185. Once it hits the grain bed it usually correlates to 170, which is perfect.

When did you take the gravity? What temperature? Actual values can be MUCH higher if you took the sample at a high temperature. http://www.brewersfriend.com/hydrometer-temp/ For example, 1.034 taken at 140 degrees is actually 1.047

Did you check the gravity before the boil? How was your grain crush? Is your hydrometer working properly? Did you make any gravity adjustments for temperature? The rest sounds perfect. Not sure what could have happened.

Glad you enjoyed it! I haven't made any modification to the original recipe, but I use a similar combination of malt ingredients for most of my original recipe IPAs. I will generally add another pound of 2-row for most IPAs, but like this combo for a lower-gravity brew. As for the hop schedule...

You will get some chocolate flavor from the malts. It might not be as chocolately as it could be but it should still be fine.

That's tough to say without knowing your own system. I'd find a temperature calculator online. This is a good one: http://www.rackers.org/calcs.shtml

Awesome! Lucky for you to have some Simcoe for this brew. I think I'll probably be brewing this again soon with some combination of Columbus and Centennial. Enjoy the brew!

Not sure about that. May have been less obvious because of the cocoa? It's a dark, dark beer. I wouldn't worry too much about it, though! Glad you enjoyed the brew :)

That's not the point though. I actually started as an AG 3-vessel brewer. I have my own cooler MT, a March pump, and a full system for making some great beer. That said, I like the convenience of BIAB. It's easier on the clean-up, and I don't find it difficult to maintain my mash temperatures. I...

Yes, but as the OP pointed out, that supply line is not rigid and is prone to collapse.

It's been great! The only issue has been my kettle, actually. I use a 7.5 gallon aluminum turkey fryer, and because there is very little headspace I need to keep the flame low. The burner has a habit of sputtering out from wind, even with the windscreen - but I also brew in a very windy area. I...

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5 lb. light DME Steep the Vienna, Cara-Pils, and Crystal, 20-25ish minutes around 160. I'm generally bad at converting these but this is an easy one. Vienna is usually mashed, so I'm not sure if you'll get much from it. If anyone wants to look this over, no problems with that here.

I've always used frozen raspberries in my hefeweizen. Add three bags of frozen raspberries to a pint of water, heat to 170 to pasteurize, simmer for 20 minutes, cool them and rack on top of them. I found that to be the perfect flavor for my 5 gallon batch. I would also recommend leaving the...

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