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Thanx for the help, I will raise temp to 165 for awhile.

Thanx for the help

4#Pilsener, 14#Munich, 2#caramunich 60. Mash temp 156. length 60 mins. Hydrometer.

5 mins after dough in *156, my mash tun is an orange 10 gal cooler. Yeast pitch was Mr. Malty reccomendation. I have not done the d-rest, but I will.

Single infusion mash, 60 min boil, recipe OG 1086 attained, 2.75 liter starter w/3 vials wlp833, fermented at *50 exactly, final gravity by recipe 1020, after week 1-1040, after week 2-1030, today is week 3-still 1030, Now what???

You never know, I might revert back to Extract brewing, and be an All-Grainer just once and a while????

Thank you

I have an extract recipe from CP, that calls for boiling the DME in 1.5 gals water, 45mins. Then add to fermenter and top up to 5 gals. w/cold water. My ? is, could I or should I boil the entire 5 gals in my garage, as I am an all grain brewer and have equip. to do it?

I see that CP boils his extract recipes w/ 1.5 gal water then racks to fermenter on top of cold water to get his 5 gal batch. If I was going to try one of these recipes, would it be better to boil the entire required water w/the DME or should I just do what CP does?

I'm getting ready to make PTE myself. Read a post that said dump the pellets in for your dry hop. When you rack to the bottle bucket, cover the end of the tubing with a sanitized hop bag. No trub in the bottling bucket.

Thanx everyone, I'm gonna let it finish and see how it tastes. Thanx again.

Did my usual water calc. to have 6 gal in fermenter after the boil. It has consistently worked for me. Ended up w/4gal in the fermenter. Way short. Gravity was right on 1.050. Needed to top up to at least 5 gal. Can you make a 1 gal batch of 1.050 wort on the stove w/RO water and some DME to top...

Thanx, I'll do that, then I can start the next brew.:yes:

German wheat almost done with primary fermentation. Gonna cold crash w/isinglass or gelatin. Should I do that in the primary or rack to secondary fermenter?

Local water is supposedly good for beer, but needs the chloramines removed. I believe it's 1 campden tablet to 5 gals-----right.