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What I'm reading here is that it may save a little time but not a lot. 6 hours beginning to end includes a lot of down time for me too. 1/4 hour to get gear together. 1 hour to get to mash temps, while having coffee 1/4 hour to add grain, wrap kettle 1 1/4 hour to mash 1 hour to get to...

I just finished my brew day, 6 hours start to finish, using a stove top, all grain, BIAB, full boil "system". I know of one time reduction I can do by using an outdoor propane burner, but how long does it take for your electric systems? I've been tempted by the all-in-one electric systems but...

At 9:21 I wrote the above, and that was after the kettle was on the stove for about 40 minutes already. It was exactly 10am when I walked away from the kettle with the grains in and covered up and set the Beersmith timer. I probably actually started at 8:30am getting the gear out. At 2:30 I...

The kettle is on the stove. It takes a good hour+ to get to 160 for BIAB mashing.

No, 2 liter. I guess the background takes all sense of size away. I use cork on my counters when I brew because of the hard quartz surface. If you knock over a glass on the counter it'll just shatter. The flask is not on the counters though in the pic but I moved the cork over there. We...

My yeast is ready today, Wednesday. I could do it now but maybe tomorrow as it wasn't in the plan for today. Now that I've retired every day is a weekend. This will be the first batch I've ever brewed while there is still beer in the keg from the last batch! I only have one keg so it has to...

My next yeast starter. This is Denny something or other. It will be one of Yooper's recipes for a hoppy American Amber.

I just put up the yeast starter for this one for the Dennys yeast.

I would do that myself except the bag is bigger than any other vessel I have. I like that once I've squeezed out everything I don't have to lift a heavy water soaked bag out too. The biggest problem with my bin setup is that when I pour I have to be careful with my aim, I missed a bit once and...

If you have a picnic tap you can unscrew the valve too. I also just unscrew the compression nut on the disconnect side. Water just runs right through this way.

This is my sparge setup. I keep about a gallon of water out of the mash in the smaller pot, a cookie sheet is inclined on a metal bowl underneath it and a pot lid to squeeze. I pour about a quart of water at a time and then squeeze it out to collect in the bin. I then pour it all back into my...

After kegging my brew and partially force carbing it on Thursday I gave a good taste today, and then another. It is pretty damn good. It still needs another few days to get up to the carb level I want so I'll have to check it 2 or 3 times a day to make sure it is progressing ;)

I kegged my batch today and there was only enough left for maybe 2 bottles, so instead I salvaged about a pint as a taster in a plastic cup and stuck it in the fridge to get the stirred up yeast to settle out again and later carefully poured it into a glass and drank it as flat beer. It was...

A Star-san bubble on the mouth of my keg: My setup ready to keg my Hoppy Winter Ale. I didn't end up needing the bottles but they were ready.

I'm on bottle number 5 of the 6 pack I bought to do this. Somebody had to drink it! Too bad yesterday's game was such a stinker and I didn't drink much for it.

A few pages ago in this thread I posted a pic of my brew in my carboy an hour or two after I pitched and was warned that this would happen. I got a blowoff tube into it before it did.

You'll be fine, just be patient. Wait a few more days and then bottle per instructions. Your gravity is fine too.

Thanks. I usually just search and then get too many answers to be helpful. Cane sugar is the easiest. I just want this to be easy as it is only the residual that I'll be bottling. If it doesn't work no big deal as I still have 5 gallons in the keg.

I have 6 gallons of brew in my fridge right now dry hopping, and I have a 5 gallon corny for kegging. I want to bottle the last bit but I don't want to fuss with the bottling sugar in a bucket, nor do I have corn sugar to use. I have either DME or common cane sugar. How much of either should...

I just put my AHS Hoppy Winter Ale into my twin Better Bottles to dry hop and cold crash in my fridge. OG was 1.055, FG is 1.008, 6.2%abv by my calc. The Brooklyn EIPA bottles in the back are to drink until this gets ready, and I felt like I'll have enough left over from kegging to bottle a...