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I brewed Tuesday night using the above DME recipe to save time. OG at 1.047, for some reason my boil was less vigorous than usual, irrelevant though. Pitched 2.5 grams of US05 rehydrated. The water was probably a bit too cold when rehydrating, it was around 69F, but I carried on. Pitched it into...

So since i just want to try changing a variable or two a brewday I figure it's fine if I just do some basic DME recipe. I don't want to mill and mash to save time until I figure this out. Think doing an all DME recipe with US05 will make a clean enough beer just to taste for the off flavor in...

No joke - the guy that came over to sample my off flavor said a similar thing he'd heard. He tied it into 1 gallon batches though, said some people thought the bung was so close to the wort or touching the high krausen which was leaching an off flavor from it. Quite the concept but you just...

Half of one or the other so that's like 5 grams or something total into the 7/8 gallon of wort+trub in the fermenter. My brewer friend who brought up the over pitching also told me to just try making a 5 gallon batch and pitch a dry pack in or smack pack as is and just see. It's been on my mind...

Awesome stuff - I appreciate the input. This is perfect. So here's some responses: I'm filling a 2 gallon container with 1/2 oz Star San now as you noticed I wasn't using enough before. I'm using 1 gallon glass jugs for fermentation vessels. Wort is almost exactly 1 gallon in the kettle after...

Hi all, A little back I did a big post with my process and off flavor I was getting. In the end I thought I figured it out, the water, since my filter wasn't working. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/constant-battle-ethyl-acetate-looking-for-suggestions.658762/ Turns out I jumped the...

Hi all, Has anyone used teak wood for their collar? Seems like the perfect wood for it other than the price. Thanks!

Hi everyone, With my current set up I am brewing the occasional 5 gallon batch and kegging, the rest of the time (3-4 times a month) I'm having fun and experimenting with 1 gallon batches. I was using dry yeast for the last year due to reasons but can now start playing with liquid yeast. Using...

Sampled the bottled campden batch, no solventy or chemical taste. Feels good. It was the water and chlorophenols in the end. I can now taste the difference of high ferm temp and chlorophenols (I think) which I'm telling myself was a good thing to come from this. I also think my palate is broken...

Good to hear! The extra 1.5 lb surely made the biggest impact. What's nice about using brewing software is once you lock in an accurate equipment profile and figure out its efficiency (so start around 70% for you) the software will calculate the extra amount of grain you'll need to hit whatever...

(and PS I also chased this rabbit and did everything like buy a mill and crush finer and squeeze that bag like a beast.. nothing got better until I locked in my volumes [emoji854] save your money for now)

That's perfect though - you are 100% on the right path. I deleted all the included profiles and create them from scratch. It's simple and you can watch video tutorials on setting up new profiles. Put a couple gallons of water in your kettle, boil for an hour (or 15 mins) then do the math for...

Temp control all the way without question. If you're practices are clean and on point with the basic starting equipment the temp control will show the biggest improvement / bang for your buck.

I had huge efficiency problems like this when I started too (BIAB) but I learned it was my water volumes that were off. Now with no effort or squeezing I'm at a constant 74% As mentioned it could be inconsistencies in your process that you don't realize are affecting your numbers. Are you...

Update. I sampled the campden batch a few days ago to see if I could taste the hot solventy chemical and I wasn't sure, it wasn't upfront like I was used to but my brain was looking for it. Decided to bottle it today to use as a sample of my off flavor for more knowledgeable brewers. Well I'm...

Thanks to everyone's confirmations, I really appreciate it.

Hi!! Got my first corny keg and I took a look inside and saw the dip tube is touching the bottom marking it up, is that normal? Thanks

Perfect - so you can take a cooled hydrometer/refractometer reading before you flame out and if low you can keep boiling. Brew on!

Definitely an issue with volumes/boil off rate. Double check your system. Update your softwares equipment profile. Make sure you're calculating the 4% difference from heat expansion if your software gives you volumes based at mash temp and not room temp.

So it's brewday and I filled up my kettle last night with 2 gal of tap water and 0.1 grams of campden. This morning reduced my water volume to the appropriate starting amount. Filled my starsan tub and also decided to put some campden in there.