Just ordered a beer gun because I'm sick of bottle conditioning being inaccurate at best. (That's another post for a another time.)
Initially I was intrigued by the two "advantages" of the beer gun. 1) The ability to bottle force carbonated beer and 2) Purging all air from the bottle to avoid...
This was only my 3rd all grain brew and my first higher gravity beer.
The batch size is 5 gallons and the grain bill was roughly 18lb. According to the water volume calculator at brew365.com as well as others, strike was about 5.8 gallons, sparge about 3.5.
With the 2 gallons of dead space...
I have a question regarding Mash & Sparge water volumes. I have used several of the calculators online and they all agree on the amount of water to use for mash & sparge on my brews.
My problem is that there is roughly 2 gallons of space between my false bottom and the kettle.
To...