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Hmmm. 20 gallon kettle. My birthday is coming up.

My typical pre-boil volume for a 5 gallon batch is 6 1/2 gallons. So, if I leave 2 gallons of space in the boil kettle for boilovers and then discount a gallon and a half for evaporation I am down to 6 1/2gallons of finished beer. Seems like time to upgrade the kettle to a 15 gallon kettle so I...

What is the biggest batch I can comfortably boil in a 10 gallon kettle? 5 gallon batches just don't last long enough. TIA.

Thanks. That's good to know.

How long should a 5# CO2 tank last if you're running one keg? Thanks for. The advice. Tom

And what would those factors be?

OK, so I just got a kegerator and will be ready to keg a batch of west coast IPA in about 2 weeks. I'm use to bottle conditioning my beer for about 2-4 weeks after I bottle it. Obviously, part of that time was needed to carbonate the beer. But, since I will be using CO2 to carbonate instead of...

3:20 am?? Wow.

I had my grain crushed planning to brew shortly thereafter. Due to family issues I have been unable to brew and 2 months have past. A brew date is also not in my foreseeable future, unfortunately. The crushed grain is in a plastic bag with a twist tie. It's been kept cool to cold. Has it...

Sounds like a post to the "You know you're a home brewer when" thread when you buy beer based on how simple it is to remove the labels.

So, what PH meters are you all using and are you happy with them?

Was the guy in the video serious??

When you plan a camping trip and immediately start planning the beer menu.

per love2brew.com, 30 minutes at temps between 155 and 165. Avoid hitting 170.

I cold brewed the coffee for 12 hours and then added it to the bottling bucket right before I bottled. I used 3 ozs. of espresso blend coffee to 21 ozs of water for the cold brewing for a 5 gallon batch of beer. Pour it through a strainer and into the bottling bucket. Good luck.

Been there. Enjoy the beer. The lower gravity should not significantly impact flavor. Think of it this way, you can have a few more beers without getting loopy and the calorie count will be lower, too. Next time, take a preboil gravity reading. That is the time to see where you stand and if...

This calculator will give you the temps, too. http://www.brewersfriend.com/quick-infusion/

Thanx for the help. I finally made it to tab 5 on the Bru-n-water spreadsheet and got the answer. Have a great day.

When doing mineral calculations using using brew-n-water do you use the volume of all water that will come in contact with the mash, just the strike water, just the sparge water, the sparge and strike separately? TIA. Tom

Giving the bottles a shake to get the yeast back into suspension may help. I did that with an 8% stout that was slow carbonating and it helped out. Don't know if it was just a coincidence or not but rousing the yeast in the primary definitely helps. So, I see no reason that shaking the...