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  1. BelligerentOwl

    Room temp keg carbonating & gelatin fining

    Greetings! Just bought a 1.75 gallon Cannonball keg and will be getting a 5 gallon CO2 tank to carbonate and serve. In a given 5 gallon batch I will be kegging 1.75 and bottling the rest. I have no means of refrigerating a carboy or larger keg at this time. I have some questions...
  2. BelligerentOwl

    "Boil Size" calculation

    Greetings. I was inputting my recipe into the Grainfather app and it is looking for a Boil Size. I was unsure of what was being factored in so I sent the following email to their helpdesk: I have a 5 gallon batch with 11 lbs of grain and a 60min boil time on a 110v unit. What should I be...
  3. BelligerentOwl

    Braumeister 20L - higher ABV through smaller batch?

    Considering the 20L Braumeister and seeing that one of the limitations is the inability to brew higher ABV beers. If I am willing to only end up with around 3 gallons in the fermenter, can I attain a higher ABV (7+)? If I go with the Grainfather?
  4. BelligerentOwl

    Upping the ABV & keeping the balance

    Beginner extract brewer moving from kit to designing my own. I've gathered that if I want to kick up the ABV, adding LME or DME will do the job without thinning or drying it out by adding sugars or honey. My assumption is that to keep the balance of the recipe, I would have to add hops...
  5. BelligerentOwl

    Video tutorials

    I'm a beginner extract brewer thinking about making the jump to all grain and looking for the best video tutorials. I'm currently reading "How to Brew" by John Palmer, but I'm a visual person. I've done some research on the how-to video that he is in, and word is that it's not the best...
  6. BelligerentOwl

    Low OG

    Kit used: Brewers Best American Pale Ale With this kit and a few other BB kits, my Original gravity (OG) has been too low. It is about .005 lower than the range bottom projected by the kit. I cool the wart to 70 degrees before moving to the fermenting pale, I add water to a five gallon...
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