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Practically every Imperial IPA has a metric Ass-ton of malt and a similar measure of hops. And they use every hop imaginable. But then, is this a "malty" beer with lots of hops? Or a "hoppy" beer with lots of malt? The debate will rage on forever.

Even standard hose pressure is greater than 15 psi I believe. I just need the hot water to flow elsewhere when the valve in the auto sparge stops calling for water. Figured a very low rated PRV would vent automatically when the main valve closes.

Thanks Froot! I appreciate you chiming in. Can you help me understand the danger/risk of allowing a flash boiler to operate under 15psi of back pressure?

DarkNoon, I think I failed to answer some of your questions: 1) I am currently doing 5 gallon batches but building to accommodate 10g. 2) No, I will not be using steam to boil. I will be using a 5500W element for that. Yes, I could use my kettle to heat and maintain my sparge water...

For anyone who wants to know what actually happened here, I did eventually find my answer. I had a wild yeast strain in my bottling cane. I didn't realize how it came apart, and I hadn't washed it properly from my inaugural brew. The beers just kept slowly fermenting because something else...

:-) Yes, I like complicated. I'm pretty married to the flash boiler. The system is built around steam mashing, so I need a steam source of one kind or another. The alternative to a flash boiler is a pressurized heated keg, which is much more disastrous if it goes awry. I find that I...

Hey, Y'all. Long time Lurker, first time poster. I'm hoping some of you more experienced gents might have a moment to help me out with my design. I'm trying to marry a flash boiler to an auto-sparge type manifold. This creates a potential problem, since stopping the flow of water at the...

So... Redid the math and yes I used too much priming sugar, but not enough for a bottle bomb. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Absolutely could be bad priming calculation but I was so careful! Used a calculator. 1/3c table sugar boiled in 2cups water for a 2.5g yeild. Bad math here? Og was ten points higher than target at 1.052. FG was one point higher than recipe after three weeks of slowly coming down: 1.014

Hi all. Thanks for chiming in. There is a new development in batch #2: a bottle bomb. I've cracked the rest of the batch open and had gushers every time. Enough to blow the caps and Bails right off of my 1L howe sound Potstopper bottles. This is day 27 after bottling. To recap (and I...

Thanks both for your great input. Nate191: I appreciate the suggestion. I am tenacious to the point of stupidity, so I'm going to nail BIAB if I can. If it breaks me I'll take your advice and start at the beginning. Do you have a suggestion on a thermometer? I was using both a side clip...

Thanks. First batch ended at 1.017 but I marked that up to poor conversion due to high mash temp. Second batch got down to 1.015 which is just one point above the recipes FG. I did not add the beer back to the batch after hydrometer readings based on posts in this forum. Because the...

First time poster and noob, but I think this question belongs here(?) Made two 3 gallon BIAB batches of the same ESB with a 7 ingredient grain bill, goldings, and Nottingham yeast. First one went a bit sideways with a high mash temp and second was dead on. First used a secondary, second...