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grumpy troll is good beer near madison

google, where is the poll?

flap disks work the best for cleaning edges.

buy the biggest pot you can afford and get a bag for brew in a bag BIAB. two pots and a bag made me some GREAT beer cheep

Lots of homebrew shops repeat repeat and repeat that myth. I have yet to meet anyone who spouts that stuff who has actually experienced off flavors, they are just repeating what they have heard. always lots of studering when you ask if they have personal experience. On the other hand...

ya, love me some simcoe... dryhop love

Either way will probably make you happy.. just be sure that you go big enough. I do like my sanke mash tun in that i drop it on the camp stove and heat my strike water in it. No real difference tho... other than i could double it as another boil pot if i wished??? I dont know yet why i...

Centennial or mmmmm I love me some Simcoe.

Sounds like you had .8 gal/hr boiloff. Your eff was prolly fine seeing as how you had 6 gal of wort. Adjust your recipe for six gal next time or boil longer, and you will be fine. yes on the dryhop. I hit high 80%'s with BIAB. I stirred well during mash and t baged the sparge until i felt...

i take pre boil readings, but only of the last runoff to see if i am over sparging..... i have typically relied only on postboil readings because i fear that preboil readings may not tell me anything accurate if the later runnings have not fully mixed with the early runnings due to...

i may be missing some of the information, but when i run your numbers thru mashwater, and my spreadsheet, i come up with 8 and some change gallons of water. i would double check your volume measurements and how you are calculating. 10 gal seems like a lot of water. Maybe not accounting for...

Its probably not going to drop much more gravity. probably ok to leave it in the kegerator to carb and age. if it doesn't clear or still tastes nasty in three weeks, you could pull it out and let it age at room temp... you will prolly be OK though... if you want it to clear faster you could add...

how accurate is the thermometer you are using, two batches at a stalled fg that high would have me looking at everything.

cannot go wrong with brew in a bag. some of the best beer i made was with biab. clear with very high efficiency. tasted great and really cheap to start. two pots and a bag... so good, that i think people are getting taken for a ride when they buy those starter brewing kits.

yup, siphon it off. if you need to start a siphon but dont want to goof around, you can use a sanitized turkey baster, or an autosiphon.

Ya, you can find them fer cheap... locally here the going rate seems to be 60-80 dollars. if it hadn't been in such nice shape i would have dickered. I was really in need of a mash-tun, so you pays premium fer fast, just the way it goes... i over paid, but not that much, especially since it was...

ya i have seen them before, but not in a few years. i usually only see them at weddings where a caterer is doing the bar.

ya that is what i keep telling myself too, since i don't have a 30 gal boilpot either, ;) haha!

not really, ad said 75 bucks, which i thought was a steal for a 30 gal keg.... the persons father drove 40 miles to meet me so i didn't feel right about hagling, so i paid 80 since i didn't have change on me at the time... so not horrible, and i did need a mashtun, but not really a "score". had...

double damn.. i knew it sounded too good to be true! My dreams of 20 gal batches were running down my leg! turned out to be a decent half barrel keg so i grabbed it anyway.. but dang i was having dreams of large batches.