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i understand your analogy but I guess I've just been blessed to be around a lot of good cooks in my life because stouffers lasagna aint cuttin it, lol

you will be fine, i used some of the same stuff in my first batch til my bargain fittings stuff came, no issues. my only concern was if the orings could handle the heat, they were fine

do you really consider mixing yeast with 4 oz of water that much work? it's quite easy, yes i do it that way. the warmer temps gets the yeast working quicker and is sort of like creating a starter but not really. follow the directions, it will work great.

Brewed again yesterday, paid very close attention to my sparge speed. it was incredibly slow, seemingly too slow but my efficency improved dramatically, got it to around 75% What other options do i have if i'm using a 10 gallon round cooler besides a kettle screen?

i like the sierra, definately taste the difference. I haven't had the shocktop. here in nyc we have sixpoint brewery and i think their rightous ale is excellent

Leave it alone. Check gravity on Monday and if its steady then rack it

for those of us who live in the city, it's not all that expensive. any bar that serves a variety of craft beers is charging $7 or even $8 a pint these days. not sure if i'm gonna be able to attend or not tho

thanks guys, makes more sense now. Trub settles right away, yeast stays suspended in the liquid. pour off that liquid and in another couple days stuff will begin to fall again but this time that will be mostly yeast.

i guess but i don't understand why people are then saying the stuff on the bottom is the yeast???

UPDATE: Beer tastes great, got me buzzed pretty nice. Had to force myself to cut back and save some so i could see how they would be with 3+ weeks of bottle conditioning

I've never done extract, I started with all grain from a 1 gallon brooklyn brew shop kit. immediately jumped up to a 5 gallon all grain setup. I highly recommend it. i use a 10gallon cooler for my mash/lauter tun

Gotcha, so if the price of grain was crazy high and I was a company trying to maximize profits I'd be firing any employes who didn't get me 90% efficiency! makes sense. In regards to modifying a grain bill. Are there any set rules on how much to increase? lets say i normally use 10lbs of...

I'm confused and I tried to search through all these pages on this thread to no avail so hopefully some experienced person won't mind helping me out. In the above statement you say that by mixing the trub with water the heavier hop particles and other junk settle back to the bottom of the jar...

not to steal your thunder on your question but mine is related. I'm having similar issues, efficiency seems low. I'm a newb with 3 5 gallon batches under my belt. first was bucket in bucket. last 2 were cooler with kettle screen. I slowed down the speed at which I sparged this time around...

aluminum all the way, cheaper, easy to drill through to add ball valves, conducts heat better. all plusses in my book.

Jayhem, almost all municipal water is treated. NYC is known for having some of the best tap water around. I've used our tapwater with great results. I've heard that you can take a sample of your water and send it away for analysis and know exactly whats in it but I'm not sure wehre. someone...

I also have the brooklyn brewshop book, the recipe is as follows 6.75lbs English Pale malt, .5 pound Victory malt, .5 pound caramel 10 malt, .5 pound caramel 20 malt, .75 pound torrified wheat 60 minute mash at 152* with 2.5 gallons of water. 5 gallons for sparging 1/2 ounce of columbus hops...

gotta get a wort chiller and then an aquarium pump then just put a small amount of icewater in the sink and recycle the icewater. http://www.nybrewsupply.com/ at the prices th is place has them, it really is a no brainer and for those of you getting excited because he got his cooled down in 20...

your a typical hobbiest that because your well established in the hobby knows where to go to get everything you need at dirt cheap prices. My kit was a gift. a client heard me talking about trying my friends homebrew and knew i was a do it yourselfer having built my own bicycles and golf...

somebody bought me a 1 gallon kit that was all grain. I hadn't brewed before so I didn' tknow there was any other way of doing things. i was instantly hooked. That was 2 weeks before christmas. 10 weeks later and i've got 3 5gallon batches under my belt. I've never done an extract brew...