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I thought I'd raise it off the bottom of the cooler with standoffs (like your "support studs", but taller). I would raise the perf sheet above where I have the bulkhead and SS braid now. Might just leave the braid in for additional filtering.

Thinking about fitting my SS braid rectangular mash tun with a false bottom so I can fly sparge. Anyone know if this will be reasonable? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000H9QHCE/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

awesome. I'm stoked. At 8%, 100 IBUs, I think it's a successful imperial IPA!

Brewed an all-grain IPA last week and after strong fermentation, it started to clear on day 5. I'm going to transfer to a secondary and dry-hop, so I checked the gravity last night and it's MUCH lower than I anticipated. Beersmith calculated a final gravity of 1.012, but as you can see from...

Here's an update... I did a diacetyl rest (raised temp of bottles to ~ 90F for 24 hrs), let the bottles sit for another week and *POW* no more buttery(scotch) taste! Now I have a delicious IPA I'm not embarrassed to share with friends.

Yeah. My working theory is I racked too soon. I'm hoping a few days at higher temps will give it a diacetyl rest.

Is it possible I bottled too early? I noticed there was still CO2 escaping from my airlock, about 1 bubble per. minute when we bottled. The FG seemed right though. I supposed I should have been measuring FG daily to make sure it didn't change. Also, the brew sat in the bottling bucket (lid...

The specifics/recipe: Slightly modified "Stone IPA" from "Clone Brews" Steep @ 150 F, 30 min... 8 oz. Crystal 20 4 oz. Munich add to full wort boil... 2.66 lbs. Light DME (Muntons) 3.3 lbs. Light LME (Muntons) 1 oz. Chinook, 60 min 1 oz. Magnum, 60 min 3.3 lbs. Light LME (Muntons), 15 min 1 tsp...

First post. This is my 3rd batch of extract brew. IPA came out tasting great from the primary (2 weeks), bottled and after 1 week, still tasted good, but a hint of diacetyl problems. Now, after 12 days in the bottle, strong dacetyl taste (butterscotch, buttery, sweet, etc.). What could have...