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Haha small world, I'm in Cranberry Twp. I saw Super Juicy was on the last couple weeks but I couldn't get over there unfortunately. JuJu is my fav DIPA for sure (that I've had that is remotely reasonably able to be acquired), thus the inspiration here.

I stand corrected here. I see now that the site I used (http://www.brewersfriend.com/brewhouse-efficiency/), offers the ability to put various volumes and gravity readings in to calculate various "efficiency" metrics. "Pre Boil Efficiency" - 78% "Brewhouse Efficiency" - 60%

Wow... I just calculated mine to 78%. Perhaps I'll more seriously consider milling my own grain in a shorter time-frame than I already was.

Been busy to follow-up, but brew day went really well with the exception of a couple procedural (I suspect) matters: 1. I have yet to do an all grain brew where I come reasonably close to my calculated OG (calculated via software). I fell a good 0.014-0.016 low of my target on this run (after...

I know this is the 3rd or 4th time I've said "this is where I landed" but honestly this is where I landed after trying to accommodate advice and staying in line with what I'm hoping for: 87% 2row 5% crystal 40 5% carapils 3% dextrose Brew day tomorrow bright and early in the quite cold...

Awesome! Thanks again for all the time and advice.

Thanks for the advice! Do you mind sharing %s of your base, flaked wheat, etc?

Personally, with hindsight I think you may have been lucky you didn't find the 1/2". I think it could have went substantially more smoothly with the narrower diameter pipe. I ended up aborting mission, and ended up building a single coil traditional chiller with a good 40-45' of pipe, and then...

Thank you very much for sharing this. My grain order is/was already placed for this batch, so I'll give this a go this round, taste, and go from there now that I'm able to brew much more regularly. I appreciate all of the help and advice.

I played with my recipe a bit more yielding to the feedback (thanks to you all again by the way). I'm going with 90% base, 10% Crystal 40/20/10 to get the color estimate I'm after. I also doubled down on the dry hops too for the big aroma/nose. The projected OG/FG gives me very close to what...

Thanks! I really appreciate the help.

Out of curiosity (and I totally understand using smaller amount of a higher Crystal for the color), can you help me understand why "too much" crystal is no good? I'm not challenging that, and truth be told the only reason I was using a mix of 20 and 10 is because I was just trying to stay as...

What do you guys think if, malt wise, I did something like 2 Row - 13lb (bumped up from original) C20 - 1lb C10 - 1lb Via BrewToad, the OG, FG, and Color are estimating extremely close to the beer I'm modeling after. Then, I plan to measure the OG pre-boil and if it's meaningfully lower than...

Thank you for your feedback. I'm glad you mentioned the hop-related aspect. I had posted what I "did" originally, but this next go round rest-assured I was moving that entire 30minute hop addition to the 5minute additions to make them a full ounce each (mostly just because I realize it was...

I used White Labs WLP051 (California V Ale Yeast)

First, thank you all so much for your quick response/help. Amount Hop Time Use 1.0 oz Chinook (US) 90 min Boil 1.0 oz Simcoe (US) 90 min Boil 0.25 oz Centennial (US) 30 min Boil 0.25 oz Cascade (US) 30 min Boil 0.25 oz Citra (US) 30 min Boil 0.75 oz Centennial...

I recently picked homebrewing up after a few year hiatus (kids/busy/etc). I'm starting back up by concocting a DIPA and brewing it over and over until I get what I want. My personal favorite DIPA is Fat Head's Hop JuJu, so I started on their page (http://www.fatheadsbeer.com/beer.html#juju)...

Thanks! Not that I'm happy that you/others struggled too, but at least makes me feel like I'm possibly not the sole person in the world who has one hell of a time successfully bending copper tubing. I'm going to give this a try, as I'm itching to brew but need a chilling solution!

I am taking a stab at building the chiller in the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S94Lhp-bv8M In now my 3rd or 4th time working with copper tubing (1/2" this go round), I have learned (1) I suck at not kinking it, and (2) there must exist a more/near full proof method for...

Thanks to everyone on this lengthy thread for their recipes, notes, and findings. I took a run at this last night, so wanted to post the recipe I followed (mostly from a previous post around page 58 w/ very slight variations like canned pumpkin, and cinnamon stick in secondary instead of...