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Bob, Long time no post. Life has a tendency of getting in the way of brewing. I need to upload pics of my brewstand. I am slowly progressing towards automation. Specifically RIMs. I will post more detail soon. Pikeman94

Collins, i sent you a , but thought i would ping you here. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

My wooden brewstand build.

I will give this a run through my setup and let you know how the ABV turns out. I think a lot of times my ABV goes higher because my mash can get too efficient. I have noticed that when I got with 1.25 qt per pound of grain I miss my pre-boil OG and then my SG. However, when I went to 1.5 qt per...

I just had a few bottles of this over the weekend. I would agree with your dryness comment. I so want to brew this when I get the chance.

Did you ever brew this beer? How did it turn out?

How was it with Willamette?

I have Winter Luxury pumpkins growing in the garden this year. I hope to get enough to make this recipe. I am a sucker for Pumpkin Ale!

I am thinking about a quick batch of beer and this would fit the bill. The problem is that I don't have any Cara-pils on hand. I know Cara-pils adds body so what would be a good sub for this?

I am going to brew this once pumpkins go on sale the day after Halloween. I am thinking about putting the roasted pumpkin in the mash instead of the boil. Has anyone tried this? -Pikeman

I am about to embark on wiring up my STC-1000, which is very similar to these controllers. In light of that I decided to borrow a friends voltage meter to see how many amps this freezer I bought would pull. When I plug the freezer in spikes to 12-13 amps, but then comes back down to 4.6 amps. My...

I would say yes on your 90 minute boil. Boiling longer allows a more malty profile to come out. I use this when brewing styles that focus on malt and not hops. Of course the 90 minute IPA bucks this theory ;)

I used have used Notty, but the last few times my pitch temp was 63 because my counterflow chiller I made was a little too efficient. The beer ended up coming out with way too many fruit esters! It was almost like it was a fruit beer. After some research I discovered that Notty doesn't like...

Bob, I look forward to brainstorming about brewstand ideas! Pikeman94 (Rob)

Count me in!

Paul, the bubble gum flavor could be coming from the fermentation stage. If you don't hit that all magical 68 F, then you are going to notice other flavors in the beer. In my experience when I just left the beer in the basement and didn't pay attention to temp I got banana/bubble gum flavor...

Sigh....That is what I feared. Since I don't have a large enough mash kettle, I may be forced into the RIMS world. Of course I will have to test this out with about 6 gallons of water in my 10 gallon mash tun. I would lean towards how your mash tun is performing though. One thought I had...

Quaffer - With removing the lid and stirring, did you maintain your target temp?