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Could just be I'm a total noob on this, but I'm trying to replicate a Breiss recipe (One Mighty Fine Barleywine) and I just cannot get the numbers to match. :confused: Basic outline is: Add 3G to the kettle, bring to 152F & steep 2 lb of grains for 30 mins Remove grains, add 12lb of Light...

Hi all, Is there a spreadsheet or set of calculations that can tell me what happens to my water numbers if I boil the water to precip out some of the hardness? Boiling is the only water treatment I've done so far; boil up several gallons the day before brew day, leave overnight, and then...

I'm waiting on a couple of small stainless pots and I want to clean them before use (since they could still have burrs or machine oil etc.) and thought I may as well passivate them at the same time. I'm thinking of using Bar Keepers Friend (as I can use it elsewhere to clean around the house)...

I'm pretty sure this has been covered somewhere but my jedi search powers are weak tonight... Are there any detailed examples of how you calculate the water volumes for infusion, mash, and batch sparge? I can easily get my head around Palmer's infusion calcs for 1, 2, and 3 step infusions...

I'm after two 5G pots to split boils on a stove top with a radiant hob. I was looking at the 5 Gallon Stainless Steel Brew Pot over at Adventures in Homebrewing when I noticed this little gem in the Description: (My emphasis.) Given most of the pots I'm looking at budget-wise need to be in...

Sorry - bit of a mouthful that title. I finally cobbled together a ferm chamber from a fridge (currently holding my latest Saison at a pretty solid 70F) and was wondering about cold crashing my beer before bottling. I've read that thermal shocking for yeast occurs going from warm to cold, but...

I thought I could work this out. I was wrong. :( I have hard, but tasty well water and finally paid for a Ward test as I want to move to All Grain and needed a baseline. The numbers are in and... I'm not sure. When I put these in Bru'n Water the calcium. magnesium and bicarb are higher...

Being frugal (or 'cheap') I don't want to spend money on a water analysis unless I need to. We're on a well and the water is hard but is wonderful to drink - but as for brewing, that's where it gets interesting as I want to cut from my current extract & grains approach to all grain BIAB. When...

I keep looking at all the posts about the benefits of all-grain, but I can't boil more than 3.5G and I don't want to boil outside (rules out a burner), I didn't win the powerball (rules out Blingmann tower or off the shelf electric system like the grainfather) and I don't have a 240v outlet free...

I get paid every two weeks and so one Friday is 'yay! let's drop some coin on equipment, ingredients, etc.' and the other is 'urgh! can we get to next Friday without hitting an alert'. This Friday is an urgh! Friday... so currently I'm trying to avoid every 'get your hops at the lowest price...

Hi there, 2 weeks since bottling and 4 weeks since brew day for an extract Belgian Dark Strong and all is good: Quaffable to me and (most importantly) SWMBO, clear as a bell, deceptively potent - with a definite hint of liquorice. (SWMBO has a better sense of taste and smell and she says...

Just thought I'd share my minor panic... I'm on my 3rd brew - simple 5G brown ale extract - and decided to skip my usual primary bucket then secondary carboy and just use a carboy for a few weeks before bottling. So I've gone from opaque plastic bucket were I just have to wait to a big clear...

I have a newbie question and I'm sorry if this has been covered elsewhere as I didn't find anything with a search... Everything I've read on the forum and online (I read John Palmer about 3 times before I even bought a kit) has said that sanitising everything that will touch the wort is key...

I'm only on my second brew (both 5 gallon extract and specialty grain beers with pellet hops) with ice bath to cool. When it comes time to siphon it to the fermenter all is fine until I get to the last few inches when the crud from the boil starts to show. My plan this time was to whirlpool...