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I recently built a new brew tower for my all-grain setup, mostly out of a need for a safer brew day. I was tired of climbing a shaky step ladder to lift my Igloo cooler full of 180 degree sparge water to a shaky shelf about 2 feet above my head. Luckily I managed to brew about 10 batches using...

I recently got tired of paying $8 for a new vial of yeast for every batch so I've started harvesting yeast by scooping a bit of the krausen into pint jars with a large sanitized spoon. My first brew using harvested yeast came out well, but now I'm wondering how much yeast I should be collecting...

I have overshot my OG on my last few brews, so I have figured out that I am ending up with about 86% brewhouse efficiency, quite a bit higher than the 75% that most recipes assume. I use a 5 gal Igloo mashtun with a homemade false bottom and I haven't noticed much difference between batch...