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How long did it take you to sparge??

I made a 3/8" copper IC, the copper is not the bright shiny stuff one normally sees. What is the proper procedure to clean the copper and make it shiny???

I left that out, I did do a 168 deg mash out prior to sparging. I do use a sparge arm (non rotating) I also use a T-Bazooka for the seperator. And as far as the crush it has been done at my LHBS not that that makes it good. I kept the sparge water 2-3 inches above the bed. If there is...

4th AG batch learned alot from the first 3. All of them had horrible efficiencies. I am able to explain them all and again I learned from the mistakes. My 4th went very well, 1 hour mash at 155. 173 deg sparge water. I fly sparged for 75 minutes. I got 6.5 gal in the BK. I used a...

I did my third AG batch this past weekend. The first was a unmitigated disaster. The second went much better and the third went pretty good. My question is this. When you use 170 deg F sparge water what is the expected temperature of the sweet liquor coming out of hte lauter tun??? Should it...

I have 8 plants all first years and this has happened to the 2 Fuggle plants. I have checked the pH and it is within normal ranges. I dug down into the soil of these two particular plants and they were holding water, poor drainage apparently. The other six did not have water in the soil just...

Is it possible to use a run of the mill food dehydrator to dry the hops

I have used polycarbonate tubing from McMaster p/n 9176T28 it is $10.08 for an 8' piece. I use a 90 deg compression fitting and run the tube(cut to length) to the top. I use a s.s. eye bolt to hold it at the top. Very simple,durable, and inexpensive. The poly tubing is good to 250 deg F

I have successfully created slants and grew the colonies and pitched them. Here's my question I made 6 slants from an original WYeast slap -pack. Now I am down to one slant, what is the proper way to make more slants with this last slant.

I am looking into using furnace valves for controlling temperature on my HLT and brew kettle. I have the temperature controllers and T/C's Could some one recommend a pilot valve to use with the system. Or would it be better to light the burner and use a proportinal valve to control the...

Alot of the recipes I am seeing tell you to start with 2 gallons of water, then when finished to add more cold water. If you have a big enough pot is it ok to just use 5-5.5 gallons to start??

I recently went with a buddy to a place where he brewed beer 3 weeks ago. We were there to bottle. Insert tube into bottle hit CO2 button for 5 sec. then fill bottle and cap. Just wondering where this equipment could be purchased.