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That's what I'll probably do. At least after the first brew if I see I need to increase something I'll have a starting point.

The shop is an hour and a half drive away. It'd cost me more to drive down to return it than the price I paid for the grain. I think I'm going to try to make a 3-4 gallon RIS with first runnings and small stout with the second runnings and call it Oops It's a Stout

Problem's not the amounts of each but that they weren't separated and thrown all into one bag

I usually round up specialty grains to a full pound. To make things easier on everyone and I like having extra ingredients on hand

Plan was to brew a mild so .5lb crystal 40 6 Oz crystal 120 4 Oz chocolate 2 Oz black patent

So I was gonna grab some grain to brew up a mild and rounded all the specialty grains up to one pound each. I didn't specify this to the guy at the shop and realized too late all the specialty grains got thrown in one bag. So as it stands I have a bag with the following: 1lb crystal 40 1lb...

I anticipated 5.5 gallons so I was a bit short in my water calculations.

With the added pound of 2 row I came out with 5 gallons at 1.058. Now to get my system dialed in a little better.

Brewing this beer tomorrow as my first all grain batch. I added an additional pound of 2 row as I don't know what my efficiency % will be yet. Seemed like a simple enough beer and will be a perfect summer beer by the sounds of it.

I plan on brewing my first big beer soon, wanting a little feedback on how to go about it. Anticipated OG 1.102 and I'll be using yeast slurry from a saison brewed with Belle Saison. 1. Can Belle Saison tolerate 11-13% alcohol? 2. Is yeast nutrient/energizer recommended as there'll be...

New to brewing, only done about about a dozen brews so far. Doing extract w/ specialty grain for now but I help another all grain brewer on occasion. I've gotten lots of great info from you guys already and hope to be able to contribute soon.

Sampling some growlers of Blue Pants Brewery's Oktoberfest and Pale ale. Also bought a bomber of their Peanut Butter Stout but haven't cracked it open yet.