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I measure the gravity by floating the Hydrometer in the wort prior to boiling, I also take a post boil reading and obviously the FG as well. As far as volume going I have been estimating. Once I put the 8.5 gallons into the HLT its all an estimate from there. I have been wanting to make a...

I fly sparge, and it usually takes me 45 mins to an hour. I keep the sparge water about an inch above the grain bed during the process. Should I stir the mash while sparging? Once the sparge is complete should I stir again to retrieve any wort?

I have brewed about 6 batches of beer so far, and the efficiency has progressively gotten worse. I started with Extract for the first couple and the last 4 have been all grain. I know use a keg for my HLT and Boil kettle and then the Igloo for the MLT. My last batch I was doing a 90 Min IPA...

Thanks for the advice, I'll talk to the guy at my brew store about his mill setting and I'll start looking into investing in one myself. I'll also slow the sparge process down and modify my sparge arm to be a little more gentle on the drip. Thanks again

The recipe was one I found on Beersmith so I'm sure their effeciancy is much better than mine. I use the mill at my brew store and I ran it through twice because I read that could be the issue after the first batch. I fly sparge and it takes me 45 min to an hour to sparge. The temperatures seem...

2nd all grain brew, I've been .020 points low on both... I have hit the target temps. The second one I ran through the mill twice, I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The first beer turned out ok but definilty lacking in the malty ness to offset the hops. Any ideas????

I boiled 6 gallons, so I did it all at once vs adding water at the end. I took the reading after transferring to the fermenting bucket. I did kind of skim the top of the beer with the turkey baster to get a reading and I used a very thin/narrow tube(container for floating thermometer) for the...

Well, I finally brewed. Started the hopping with a solid boil over, but got it under control pretty quickly. Otherwise I followed the recipe to the "T". I was able to cool the wort in 33 mins which is way longer than I thought would take. And took my OG after putting in the fermenting bucket...

Ok thanks, I didn't have time last night to brew. I felt like I was going to have to rush it so I put it off until next week. I'll give it a shot I'm probably misusing the brew smith calc. Thanks again

So I'm plugging all of my ingredients into the BeerSmith App. I plan on brewing tonight. The IBU rating is at almost 90IBUs with this recipe, although it should be between 30-40IBUs is there something I'm missing or something I'm doing incorrectly? What is the easiest way to clean all of the...

Thanks for all the advice, I'll be sure to post how it went. Thanks

US-05 it is then, I have actually built a keezer already and that was my next question. Can I use it as my fermentation chamber? I built a temp controller from the STC1000 for it.

I'm approaching my first brew day. I have been gathering supplies such as Brewers Best Starter Kit, Brew Kettle (Turkey Fryer), Hydrometer Test Jar, Floating Thermometer, Strainer, and some other random things. I have read Home Brewing Beer By James Houston and How To Brew is on deck By Palmer...

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