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For higher gravity, you might just consider up-ing the amount of grain you are using in the recipe. What wyzazz said also works. You can increase the crush on your grain and that will help quite a bit. Of course doing a good sparge and boiling off any excess volume helps also. Quick fix...

They can! I've had that happen. Chilling them down though dramatically reduces the chance of them going boom. If you have towels in there and the fridge is nice and cold, it probably won't hurt to wait a week if you want. People tend to have strong feelings one direction or the other on...

Those suckers are going to blow. It's clearly overcarbonated and waiting will only result in future clean up of broken glass and sticky beer. I would chill them ASAP., If you don't want the fridge dirty, just ice them all down in a cooler in case they pop. What I usually do is very slowly...

me too! me too!

My answer to this is directly related to the amount of finished beer I already have in the fridge :)

You have three options here to know for sure: 1) take a gravity reading 2) take a gravity reading 3) oh, and take a gravity reading :) But seriously, take a gravity reading, and I think its highly unlikely you have completely finished fermentation in two days. Take a gravity reading...

I replaced one of my March 809's heads with the stainless chugger head, and it works like a charm. And you don't have to look at that hideous green housing that way ;)

My email should have been in time; hope I'm getting one :confused:

You're method would be just fine. You might lose a little aroma boiling it, so I recommend you boil the water, then take it off the heat and add the spices to steep. You can just decant the tea off, or get real fancy and put the boiling water and the spices in a french press, then press out the...

Email sent! Thanks for the offer; I'd definately spread the word to my brewer friends to upgrade their systems.

Yup, quite frankly, I have been disappointed in the lack of updates myself. I still love the software and use it religiously, but there are definite improvements that could be made to make it better. -Add "carastan" for example in the grain section. -Improve how it calculates what temp...

Ever find what you were looking for? I bought one of these: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320606933368&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT Had a bit of an issue with it; the wheel inside was getting stuck. But I switched out the wheel with the plastic head i had on there before...

Its your call. You have weevils and its up to you if you are fine with dead bugs in your mash. I've had this happen twice and I had to throw away the whole bag. those were sad days.... :(

Congrats!

Number 2 is the ticket, but honestly, I doubt you need to purge the headspace. It's still going to be generating a little bit of CO2 and that will lay like a protective layer on the top of your beer. Won't hurt to purge; but not really necessary IMHO.

This Cock Ale sounds hard....

+1 installed those on my rig last weekend. I love them and austin homebrew supply was (is?) having a crazy good sale on them.

I wish I knew how you guys got such a low r-value in your cooler MTs. I brewed for at least 12 years, probably with 5 or 6 different coolers, in standard garage temperatures of 100 degrees, and I have NEVER had only a 1degree drop in temperature :( So are you not direct firing or...

I have both types. I think one is made in Italy and one is made in Mexico. I don't think either one is heavier duty than the other. It's personal preference.

Always listen to SWMBO!! :) I think it did; helps to impart more flavor in the beer and spread the pecans through the mash a little more thoroughly.