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I kept the original valve and drilled a hole for a ball valve.

Awesome! Thanks!

Hello Grainfather Users! I use a Grainfather sparge water heater fitted with a ball valve and a short length of silicon tubing for my sparge. I keep a constant trickle of water going through the mash tun but never have the 10mm or so of water that the Grainfather folks say they have on top. Do...

The starter is crashing in my fermentation chamber at 1C/33F. Maybe I'll raise the temperature in the chamber to my pitching temperature of 12C/53F the night before I brew.

I probably am working harder than I need to. I just want to make sure I have lots of healthy yeast for this pilsner. You said that you'd decant and add more starter to wake the yeast back up, when would you do that?

Thanks for your answers! I ended up stepping it up once more. When it's done I'm going to crash it and pour off the beer. Saturday morning when I start my brew I'll take it out of the fridge to let it warm up then pitch it.

I'm making a Bohemian Pilsner, target OG 1.046, and target volume is 5.5 gallons.

I have a yeast starter question for the forum. I made a starter with two packages of Wyeast 2278 Czech Pilsner Lager yeast and 2L of 1.036 wort on Sunday night. This morning it appeared the fermentation was done. No bubbles, no krausen so I took it off the stir plate to let it settle out at room...

Thanks everyone!

Right! Partial mash, like this.

I live in The Great White North (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) and it's f**king cold right now so I'm doing my brewing inside. I would like make a 5 gallon BIAB batch using a 5 gallon brew kettle indoors on my stovetop. My plan is to make approximately 2.5 gallons of wort using BIAB and add LME to...