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Kids and work and getting older---my brewing days are over. NW Side of Chicago For sale, all ready to brew on today (i.e. meticulously maintained and clean) US Grainfather Connect G30 - bluetooth enabled ($200 on its own) 4 tap keezer w/custom collar (and stickers!), gas regulator w/4-way...

So, I built this: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Making_a_Partial_Mash_mash_tun And I can't wait to use it. One question, though: since the spigot is about 1/2 inch above the bottom of the cooler, I am going to lose about 16 oz. of wort per mash. Do I need to up my grain amount...

City, which will undoubtedly inhibit my two favorite hobbies: golf and homebrewing. On the other hand, I will have a good job, so you win some, lose some.

Alas, I am an apartment brewer now, and moving into Chicago in 5 months. I don't anticipate having the space for it. But I appreciate your comment. I'll look around at how people do AG in apartments, and see if I can convince SWMBO to let me try it. For the time being, anyone know...

I just got the book Brewing Classic Styles by Jamil Zainasheff, and it's GREAT. One oddity, however, is that many recipes call for Munich malt extract. My LHBS doesn't carry it, and I've found a few online places that have Weyermann's 100% Munich Amber LME, but for around $45 for 8.8 lbs...

Not Necessarily, just lift the hop sack out, put the chiller in, and put the sack back in on top of the chiller. Works just fine in my big, old turkey fryer.

You could build a big hop bag. There are lots of ways to do it, but most recommend using a 5-gallon paint strainer, a PVC coupling, and a long PVC pipe (to stabilize it). That lets the hops float around in a larger area than one of the small mesh bags HB shops like to sell. Check this out...

Take a gravity reading. Post OG and SG. If it looks fully attenuated, you're probably fine.

I would bet my latest batch that it's jet dry. For a couple batches, I simply used the dishwasher to sanitize. Those batches had very little carbination, and virtually no head retention. The likely culprit: JetDry. Try this for your bottles: Run the dishwasher empty, with hot water and...

Thank you for the responses. Next time (which won't be for a while...) I make a beer with a borderline irresponsible amount of hops, I'll use a large, 5-gallon nylon bag. Can I get those from a hardware store/paint shop?

For the hops? Like a giant tea bag? That sounds like a good idea. Will it affect utilization? With as much hops as we used, I don't think the beer would suffer with a slightly lower utilization, but i'm curious nonetheless. If anyone wants, I would be happy to post the recipe. The beer...

Yesterday my brother and I made the biggest, hoppiest beer I've ever made. To commemorate our graduating from college and grad school, we made an IIPA with 11 OZ of hops, 8 of which were whole leaf. Lots of late hop additions, etc., made it one hell of a beer. OG: 1.085, IBU well over 120...

I'll bet Jim Koch would help Yuri out. I hear he's got about 20,000lb of hops available.

The on on the northside of Indy is actually pretty good. They usually have 7-8 of their beers (about 4 of which are interesting or good), but they always have something on a nitro, and TWO cask ales. They had an English IPA on the cask once, and I really liked it a lot. Very different from...