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Might be carbonic acid from carbonating. Are they highly carved? Might be an infection....

This is inexpensive if you don't mind aluminum: 10 Gallon Aluminum Pot

I usually do a quick calculation assuming 37 points per pound of grain. So gallons collected times numbers to the right of the decimal point divided by pounds of grain times 37. (5 gallons times 52) divided by (9# times 37) = 260/333 or 78% The real calculation with specialty grains is...

So it's sitting in the fermenter at what temp? What's the room temp? If you can make a run for a couple bags of ice, you can stick the fermenter in the bathtub and fill with ice and cool water. If you can't get ice, you can still stick the fermenter in the tub and fill the tub with cold water...

That's awesome. I would have never guessed that to be true. Gotta try this with my glass carboy.

You're still coming in around 64 IBUs by my calculations. That's near the top of the scale for that style. You could save .25 of that simcoe for a nice addition to your dry hop.

You could just FWH the Simcoe. You'll get a smoother bitterness (from what I can tell) and some aroma (from what I can tell). Then dry hop with .5 oz of that cascade. So... 1 oz Simcoe FWH 1.5 oz Cascade 15 min 1 oz Cascade 0 min .5 oz cascade DH The dry hop will add back some...

Are you looking at maybe too much carbonation?

Don't worry too much about the hot break. The extract people already do the breaking back at the extractory (that's extract + factory). I'd stick to using the Saaz on your Dead Guy. They are fabulous hops, and Perle lacks some of their character. You could totally dry hop your Irish Red...

Designing Great Beers

OOOOOH! Holy beer. Touched by his noodly appendage! Ramen!

Nice. That's my new desktop photo. This thread is unbelievable. Who's going to do the first "Rule Breaker's" mild braggot tribute brew?

Aerating dissolves atmospheric oxygen into the wort. The yeasties eat this oxygen to help make their cell membranes flexible. Flexible membranes help yeasties divide and reproduce. Yeasties that have a good reproduction phase ferment your beer cleaner and faster. If you forget to aerate...

Aerate. For heaven's sake in the name of luvin jeebus don't forget to aerate.

Same stuff. Go for it. My dogs love these. They are mini dachshunds and I can't find treats small enough for them, but these I can custom cut nice and tiny. They also love to clean up the falling grain when I use my corona.

Straining is good. But don't worry, all of the crap (except the mobile yeasties) will settle on the bottom of the primary when fermentation dies down. Just be careful when you rack out of the bucket, not to disturb any of the trub on the bottom.