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Sorry….dumb question here….on the pre-loaded equipment list (ex. Pot (13gal/50L) - BIAB. The 13gal means the size of the pot I will be using for my pre-boil and boil to brew a 5.5 or 5 gal batch correct? But I can change that to a 15 gal profile which is what I have. Also the BIAB is BrewInABag...

After 2 weeks + 1 day in the the Carboy fermenting (Feb 24) I dry hopped my Pliny. After 4 days of dry hopping I took my first FG at 1.016. OG was 1.076. The aroma and taste was more alcohol strong than taste. So I let it dry hop for two more days. My FG was at 1.014 after two more days. And the...

After a day of brewing with my new pot I soaked about 8 gallons of hot water and oxi clean inside with rest of brewing equipment. Washed smaller equipment first then let it soaked for another 2 hours. Tried scrubbing stain out. Not having any luck. Any suggestion or ideas? Or should I not be...

With the steeping grains till 170 or 30 min. Then removed all. Some parts were confusing. I called the 800 # once. This being my third elder batch and first with extract.

I steeped at beginning ater turn burner on with 7 gallons in pot. Mine reached 170f before 30 minutes up. After steeping continue boil till 214f or full boil. Remove from burner and slowly stir in malt extract and others that's called for. But you add the 1lb corn sugar at end of entire boil...

this morning.

yesterday in the fermenter.

Full. Not sure if I'm going to finish at 5 gal. I started with 7.3 gal at the initial boil. Inside the Carboy topped off at just over 5.

A great day of brewing the elder yesterday. Everything went like clockwork. OG reading at 1.076. In my fermenter tank started to blow off last night before bed. Bottle was 1/4 full this morning at 6. Just changed blow off bottle. Very active. Inside temp between 68-70. Getting excited with this...

I'm getting ready to brew this in 3 hours from now. After the initial boil you turn off burner or remove pot from burner then you slowly add the extract so as not to burn it at the bottom of pot. When you first start boiling the water (with your steeping grains and whole hops) you remove the...

This will be my third time brewing this recipe from morebeer.com. 1st time using the extract recipe. First 2 times I bought the all grain version. The first time it came out between 90-95% of the bottled Pliny. Second time was a fail. Maybe 60% of Pliny. It's been a year in half since the second...

I am getting ready to brew an IPA. I've looked all over here and other places for amount of water to boil for all grain BIAB (no sparge). I have 12.5 lbs of grain, 4oz of hops to make a 5 gallon batch at 60 minute boil. I will be brewing outside in my garage. Todays temp will be around 65F. From...

Okay. So I need to get a heat source to put inside my freezer. A lamp with light bulb? How bout a regular type heating pad (like for your back/neck/leg/etc.)? Then I need to plug the heat source (heating pad) into an outlet and place it inside the chest freezer? Tape the temp probe to the...

I bought a small chest freezer on Craigslist several months ago. Only paid $25 and it's a Wood's brand. It works fine. I plugged it in and it got cold very quick. Not sure on the size, but I can fit only 1 carboy at a time. I recently bought a Johnson A419 temp controller for the freezer and am...

I am getting ready to brew next weekend and I have a chest freezer that I want to use for fermentation for the first time. I just bought a new Johnson A419 and it's all wired up and ready to go. But I have a question on it before plugging it in and trying it out before I brew. It comes with...

My 6th time brewing. My 3rd all grain. My first time using Wyeast (California Ale x 2 packs). It says to snap the pak. Which I did. But when I went to pitch the yeast (Wyeast) one of the packs did not open (in both packs). So went ahead and cut open the unopened one and threw inside carboy and...

Got home yesterday afternoon and started to mess with my burner one more time. This time I disconnected the regulator/hose from the burner and cleaned the line inside the burner and holes on top. Reconnected the hose and also to propane tank. With the valves on closed position I turn the valve...

I just opened the regulator first on my own and then the propane tank. But I did turn both off and opened the propane tank valve all the way and then then regulator. But I still had to turn the regulator valve almost all the way to the on position before it would light. And sometimes it would...

I recently bought a new Bayou SQ14. I have not used it for brewing yet. I will be using it this weekend for the first time. But I did try it out a couple of weeks ago and again yesterday to make sure it will work for my brewday Sunday. Both times it would flame out on me. The first time I...

One more note I should add is the stir bar is not round. It is octagon shape.