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My bicarbonate level is 55.9 (56) multiplied by 1.22=68 link: http://www.pennichuck.com/PDF%20WQR/LockeLakeWaterSys.pdf page 3, look to the "Airstrip" column, thanks for the help so far!

The report is not from Ward Labs. Its just a local report that we found online, but it is from 2011 March-May, so quite current. I did mess up alittle with the definitions but all my numbers are there. I don't understand what you're missing. Our HCO3 level (hardness, adjusted from CaCO3 value...

Hey all, I've read all the stickies, John Palmer's section on how to brew, etc. Done my homework. I wanted to get someone with practical experience with adding salts as I have never done so. My beers have been plagued by a few problems ever since I started AG'ing a few years ago. First...

Thanks all for the replies. I do vorlauf for clarity. Our debate centered around whether to drain the kettle fully or not. For example, we add the mash water, let sit for 60 minutes...vorlauf. Then drain all of that wort into the kettle. Next (only after the bed has been completely drained)...

No because I was batch sparging single infusion mashing and using my lhbs for a crush

Then I fill the tun up with spare till one inch above the bed and beg in draining out the other end

I just wanted to drain everything out first. Doesn't make sense to me to drop the sparge water on first without draining

Both ways make sense was just wondering

Also provide why whoever is right is right. Thx

Recently my efficiency has been horrible. I decided to rectify every issue I thought may be the problem all at once. I bought my own mill, re made my manifold, and did an enhanced double decoction mash. The debate I had with my brother was about sparging. He said that we did not need to run...

Thanks for all the replies. My goal is to get better malt profiles in my beers. The aroma and bitterness/hop flavor of my beers is always to my liking but the body and malt flavor of my beers is nearly always lacking. I think decoction mashing (even pale ales and such, even though it isnt to...

I've been reading up on this technique and was wondering if anybody else had done this and seen an improvement in the malt flavor in their beer. I understand that it does not need to be done because almost all grains are well modified, but I keep reading that by boiling the mash as done in the...

So my system isn't real dialed in, nor do I overly care that much about efficiency, but for the past couple brews my efficiency has been abyssmal. 57% is unacceptable. My brother dumped the grains into the mash tun today and I saw a large mound of dust there....is my crush from my LHBS to...

yes. I have started a garden with hops and barley and I plan on creating my own beer from start to finish

I'm looking to purchase a grain mill because I started a barley garden and want to crush my own grains. Any suggestions on a reliable product that is also fairly priced?

thanks all for the replies and insight!

Hey all, I was wondering if anybody has ever purchased or heard anything about the durability of the bayou classic brewpots. I don't need thermometers or valves coming out of my keg and I found the Bayou Classic to be really reasonably priced at $141.00. I don't want tp buy it if its going...

is it ok to rack your beer if there is foam still on top that hasnt settled in and no bubbles coming through the airlock? Thanks.

I batch sparge so I was wondering if the taller sports cooler promoted more channeling of the sparge water than the rectangler coolers you'd bring to a beach, thoughts on that?

I built a mash tun out of a home depot water cooler, like the ones you would see on the sidelines of a football game, and used a water supply hose as a manifold. I was wondering if a cooler that is the style of the one you would bring to the beach (rectangle) would make a better tun, or if...