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funnily enough, I brewed this and after tasting it, i found it to be quite familiar, at least in taste. looked in my personal recipes, low and behold I had the exact same recipe as far as the malt bill and yeast with only the hops being different.

are these bolted tight? might want to use nylock nuts or something or tighten the living hell out of them to keep them from wanting to seperate from the heat cycles. red threadlocker is a permanent solution :)

montreal, qc here. kits, all grain, extract.... i do it all, depends on the season and the amount of time i have available :)

1lb DME typically has gravity of 1.044 in 1 gallon of water. 1lb LME is more around 1.037 in the same amount of water. source: this book, amazing btw http://www.amazon.ca/dp/160342539X/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 you can do the math and get what you are looking for :)

so i ran a test yesterday with 1 gallon of water in both my 20qt aluminium pot which has a flat bottom and is ever so slightly larger than the burner and my 11 gallon stainless brew kettle which is needless to say much, much bigger. the stainless kettle completely destroyed the aluminium for...

I have the mill, have tried it before when I didn't have an actual grain mill when toasting 1-2 lbs of malt. basically the tldr is that even the coarsest grind is too fine for brewing. you end up with a rather large amount of dust, its painfully slow. I use it to make flour as I regularly...

thanks for the info! looks like i will have to severely limit my beer intake during the winter or get ahead of myself in the coming years with having brews ready to keg ahead of time! unless the heatstick is an option. though I don't seem to have any gfi outlets in my kitchen

Good morning homebrewtalk, I recently acquired a 4 gallon pot in the hopes of being able to do some extract brews during the cold winter months here in Montreal. The pot is made of aluminium and I gave it a go last night. I had all the trouble in the world getting it to boil and even when...