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2336.5 + 6.0g Porter + 6.0g Pale ale + 6.0g Brown Ale + 6.0g Wheat + 6.0g Melon Ale 2366.5 Gallons so far!

We have first hand experience with this. Crush and temperature really helped us. We bought and motorized a 3 roller kegco mill to crush grain ourselves and got a lab calibrated thermometer. These 2 changes took us from around 70-73% to a consistent 80-82%!

Forgot to say. The ph of the water we are brewing with is in the mid 6's. For what we are doing right now that's fine. The beer has never been better!

Figured I'd give an update. We did the same recipe but just used US-05 for the yeast. We got a starting gravity of 1.055! We got our own 3 roller grain mill and a calibrated lab thermometer. Beer is in the fermenter and ready for kegging in a couple days. With the grain mill and thermometer our...

On mine I used a 1/2" love joy and there was alittle play in it. It tightened up good though and isn't binding anything durring use. I just set the gap of the couplers alittle big and all is well. 15/32" looks to be perfect and I'll probable swap it out at some point. Jeramie

I bought the Kegco Mill about 3 weeks ago and have just over 50lbs through it already. I built a table and it's bolted to a piece of 1/2" oak ply. I also motorized it. It's driven by a 3/4hp 1725rpm motor with a 10:1 right angle reduction gear box. It's coupled to the mill with a set of Lovejoy...

We are taking gravity reading with a refractometer and doing temp adjustments. Ph is aroubd 6ish so we're going to mash longer and do iodine testing along the way to get an idea on conversion time. Really don't have the stuff to do water treatments but it'll probably be in the near future. Each...

Lol! It sounds like a terrible chore! ���� We live by the if alittle is good then a lot must be better! Haha!

That's pretty much what I was thinking. Close enough is good enough for us! Lol We are just starting out actually. Have a 3 year goal. Right now we are on the funds building stage and finding beers that people like. Basically doing market research with all our friends. Lmao! I think we're going...

We may attempt this hefe again using the advice here and see how it goes. We haven't had any issue with any other beers, only ones involving wheat. It makes sense on the crush of the grain. I think we are going to purchase our own grain mill and start getting our own grain to keep the process in...

This was a 5 gallon batch. My runnings looks good. Vorlaughed a gallon and it was looking good. Grains were all crushed and temps were all hit. It's sounding like a grain milling problem. We're debating about getting our own grain mill an buying grain wholesale since we have our FEIN and...

Thanks for the responses. Meant it should have been around 1.060. Temps were verified on a calibrated thermometer. We had 1lb of rice hulls in there. Ph of the water was 6. We kept a 2 inch layer of water above the grain while sparging. Grain was milled seperatly from the store with no roller...

Hi there. We've attempted a hefe twice now consisting of 7# wheat and 4# pils. Mashed 90 minutes at 153 and did a continuos sparge and hit 174 on the mash out temp. Both times our og was 1.027 on the money. Any idea on what the problem with our effectively is? Should be around 1.050. Thanks...