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I'm brewing my third beer right now, and my second and third called for steeping in 1 gallon then sparging with another gallon, so before the second one I got a 2 gallon igloo cooler at goodwill for $3. I just let it soak in there for the recommended 1/2 hour and poured it through a wire mesh...

I might have to do that, I suppose that's just the perfectionist in me, and worst case (or wort case?) your beer comes out a little to thin or a little too viscous. I'd rather err on the side of too much and water it back down to the desired gravity.

so just to re-hash, Searching around I've found a pretty wide range of conflicting conversions factors for dme to lme and back from 1.1 to 1.25, and a 15% swing seems pretty big to glaze over the 1 lb grain = .75 lb LME = .6 lb DME equation would suggest DME to LME factor is 1.25 the "LME is...

Thanks for the feedback. I'm halfway through drinking that batch, and while it came out alright, it definitely suffered a bit from doing a full boil without reducing the bittering hops or the boil time, and/or from having to partially cover it to keep it boiling. It probably could have used a...

Well thanks, I think I'll bottle it, drink it, and make some more beer!

oh, no real concern, I told them I was going for a Sierra Nevada (because I'm perfectly ok bowing to experience at this point) and it looks nothing like the recipe in my new clone book. So I was wondering if this is close to something commercial. after secondary it just tasted like a flat...

TLDR;what's the name of the beer made from the recipe below? Full version: So for my first brew, my local home brew store gave me what they claimed was their house pale but consisted of several whitout'd and re-labeled ingredients AND add-times. I'm just wondering if anyone can name that beer...