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Are you milling the wheat mixed in with the grain or doing them separately? I mill mine separately as they are a different size and have not noticed any difference in efficiency.

Sorry I didn't clarify better in my post. I left off that you need to insulate the probe in some way. I guess what I was trying to get across is those sticker thermometers the home brew stores sell you and stick on the outside of your fermenter. Those can be off by as much as 5 or 10 degrees...

They say (and they say a lot) that fermenting temperatures can be as much as 5 degrees higher than what a probe taped on or a thermometer stuck to the outside of a fermenter reads. I've had good luck setting my inkbird at 63F with a +/-1 degree differential. IN fact I've always kept mine set at...

Not usually. If using dry yeast, about a third of the package is usually good enough. I've been harvesting my liquid yeast and reusing it. Use Mr. Malty to figure out how much to use. A few months back, I was making a 3 gallon batch and found a mason jar of yeast in my beer fridge that was...

This is the one I got...

Sounds like a good score. Mini fridges are great for small batches. Ever since I got mine for my one gallon and 3 gallon batches, I feel the quality of my beer has gone up. Being able to control fermentation temperature is awesome. I don't know the size of your fridge or a fermonster, but I can...

Seems like the way things are going right now from what I am seeing in stores. Currently I've got a Standard American Lager and a Dark lager in bottles, and I need to get around to bottling an American Light Lager and A Classic American Pilsner that I brewed awhile back. Didn't do it because it...

Wilser. I've got 4 bags for 4 different sized kettles

I brewed that in time for St. Patty's Day and had the same results. Way too dark. Tastes ok, but doesn't look or taste the way I wanted it to. Glad I'm not the only one who had those results so I know I didn't screw up somewhere.

You need to understand your boil off rate. Looks like you used somebody else's from Brewer's Friend without knowing what your system actually is. Looks like you boiled off .75 gallons in an hour where as they boiled off 1.8gallons. You can fill your kettle up to 3.8 gallons (or whatever) and...

I'd second the "Good, fast, cheap - pick two" sentiment. Before I started brewing, I burned through numerous cheap thermometers smoking meat. About 10 years ago, I got a Thermopen. Great for an instant temp check on meat or a mash temp. The only problem is you have to pull the lid off the...

And you probably just jinxed yourself....

Yesterday I brewed a gallon batch of Classic American Pilsner from Brewing Classic Styles, along with 2.5G batch of American Lite Ale. Used yeast I harvested from the day before when I bottled a Standard American lager and a Dark Lager. Love these small batch sizes. Much easier on the back to...

Bottled a Standard American Lager and a dark lager on Sunday, then turned around and brewed a Classic American Pilsner and a Lite American Lager yesterday pitching the yeast from the Standard for both. After these, I'm doing a few ales as my pipeline will probably be running low.

If you have a recipe in mind, plug it into a brewing software and scale it down with the autoscale function. What kind of beer are you making? American light lager, standard American lager, premium American lager, classic American pilsner? Cream ale? More info needed.

So back on February 12, I posted about making 3 batches of Irish Red. One from Brewing Classic Styles and then brewing a 2 gallon recipe from How To Brew and splitting it and dry hopping one with Cascade just for sh!ts and giggles. They've bottle conditioned and I've sampled them. I'd say...

I do what @Soulshine2 does and it works great. Fermentation takes off fast. If the yeast has been in the fridge for awhile, make a starter though. I just took some yeast from July, made a starter and it worked perfectly. Other than it being cheap, why do people say not to harvest dry yeast...

You might be able to, but it'd probably be cheaper just to get a 2 gallon food safe bucket from Lowe's or Home Depot and drill a hole for a spigot.