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Hello, this is my first time going for a pilsner and I've never done a cool fermentation before in a fridge. Chose a popular Urquell clone on Brewfather and made the wort like usual and nearly everything went according to plan, it took a a while to chill the wort but nothing major. Hit...

Right, I didn't sparge. All water was put in my 10 gallon mash tun then immediately boiled.

Blowoff tube on fermenter, surprisingly there's no activity through the tube though. Signs of fermentation are active and hydrometer shows there's fermentation.

I had about 8.71 gallons of water in my mash and about 7 - 7.5 ish in my boil. Ended up boiling it down to 6 I believe. I included my hops in my fermenter and it's close to full. If I had not scaled down the recipe the boil would've had to be a lot longer. Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks for the advice. I'm doing the Sierra Nevada pale ale clone on Brewfather as it was the best reviewed. I ended up doing no sparge, I just reweighed my ingredients and scaled it down. It's probably better I did though because my fermenter was pretty full. Ended up turning out well with...

That would be fine, I might as well just bite the bullet and reweight everything though to get a more accurate result. Oh well.

I suppose I could also do two kettles and put one on the stove.

I'm new to all grain. I'm about to make my first batch of beer and bought everything I needed. I knew the recipe brewed about 6 gallons of beer but I completely forgot to check the pre boil volume which is about a gallon and a half more than my kettle can hold, and my mash tun only can hold 10...

Near me we have a huge grocery store that has products from tons of different countries. Luckily they've had entire sugar cane plants there and they're good quality too. I made a soda from one since I've always preferred sugar cane drinks to just regular sugar.

Don't know, I bought a lid and new O rings for the keg last night and they fit perfectly fine. Cleaned up the inside with PBW and boiling water and it's shiny and ready to rock.

If you like the taste of the water then there's no issue brewing with it. The two beers I made before buying water salts and such tasted good, and that's with Cincinnati water which isn't horrible but is generally hard. It's only an issue when you want to try and perfect your beer.

5 Gallons of a Blue Moon clone 371.5 + 5 = 376.5 5 Gallons of an Amber Ale 376.5 + 5 = 381.5

If my brother quits a few kegs might quit with him. 😅

Thanks! Going to the home brew store after school. Looking forward to kegging as I bottled the first batch I ever made and I really don't enjoy it. I like it for presentation but the sedement in the bottom ruins it for me since I don't like bottling just to pour it into a glass regardless. It...

Lmao. My twin brother mentioned the same thing. He works at a nice steakhouse in the area. Told me they have hundreds of them in the basement. He didn't even know they could be used for beer.

Interesting, the side says "Safer s.p.a - Valmadrera - LC - made in Italy." don't know if it's good quality yet but it feels nice. Just needs a lot of cleaning and scrubbing.

Should be fine, I normally opt to just aerate it with a kitchen whisk I sanitized. Give it a vigirous stir for like 30 seconds to a minute and get some foam on top.

Interesting, is there a reason they would've converted it?

Got it. I'll buy some O rings.

That's good, I'll go down to my home brew store and see if they have them there.