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While I have never used Melanoidin, from what I have read a little goes a long way. I would cut back to 6 maybe 8 oz tops.

SG*Volume/desired SG=final volume. Ex. 5 gal 1.060, but you wanted 1.050 60 SG*5 gal= 300 gravity points/50=6 gal. So add 1 gallon of water to get your desired gravity

See this page http://www.braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php?title=Understanding_Efficiency

I did this for a RIS. I mashed about 24# of 2 row with a little crystal 60 in my mash tun. I steeped 2# mixed chocolate and carafa III in a separate vessel. Added both together at the start of the boil and it came out great.

Here is a long post. Sorry Ok let’s do some calculations. I am making some assumptions so adjust as necessary. Assuming 0.5 gal dead space in your BK and MT you need 5.5 gal wort post-boil and based on your numbers you will have ~ 6.92 gal pre-boil 9 gal (strike water) – 2.88...

Qcbrew, I think snowtires was referring to hot scotchy; where you pull off a portion of the sweet wort and mix with scotch for a nice warming drink. They can account for a considerable loss in efficiency.

Qcbrew, I think snowtires was referring to hot scotchy; where you pull off a portion of the sweet wort and mix with scotch for a nice warming drink. They can account for a considerable loss in efficiency.

I also sent a PM to redman and haven't heard back. Redman can you send me a PM with the address and pick-up time.

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I just bottled my bourbon-oaked brown ale. I did a 6 gal North England brown ale and split the batch. Separately, I soaked 1 oz of medium toast oak chips in bourbon (just covering the chips about 1.5 fl oz) for 3 days. I poured off half the bourbon and added the remaining chips and bourbon to my...

My guess is there is a reason you can't find them. From what I have read, and I have just starting reading up on wood aging, you really don't want to use any type of conifer wood (pine, cedar, etc.) because they impart a nasty terpene flavor.

If you haven't already search "hop spider" in the forums. I use this with great success.

I have the exact same manifold. Dry fit all the way.

I did a mini-mash with honey malt and a little 6-row. Mashed at 154 until conversion was done by iodine test and then diluted with water until I got 0.5 gal with a SG of 1.050.

I have done some experimentation with honey and honey malt. I made a lightly hopped (IBU 20) base wort with 2-row 85%, 10% white wheat and 5% carahell (SG 1.052). I split the batch into 4x4 gal. Then I did the following additions: Carboy 1 : Control - No addition Carboy 2 : 0.5 gal, 1.050 SG...

Hopefully, you aren't tasting the stuff that comes out of your lab. It's great for sterilizing, but not so great on the flavor side. While it can be used successfully in the homebrewing arena, I have had beers given to me where the band-aid flavor was very strong. In each case the brewer had...

I'm guessing that was a 10 gal batch. At least I hope so.

Just as a counter point. I had some bottles that had been infected with Brett. I washed the bottles with soap and water... well the ones I thought were infected in the batch. I then sanitized the bottles by dunking them in a 5 gal bucket filled with StarSan. The StarSan was 3 weeks old at that...

Did you account for wort loss to trub/hops? If you started with 29L at 1.050 and boiled off 2L you would get 27L at 1.053. If you lost 4L to trub/hops you would collect 23L at 1.053.

I haven't had the time to do a party-gyle yet, but I want to. What's cool is you collect your first runnings for say an IPA or some other pale beer. Then throw in 2-3# of dark specialty grains and do a second mash while you boil your first batch. That way you get a double IPA and porter out of...