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My understanding is that we're supposed to get 8-10 depending on pressures and whatnot, but the most I've gotten is 3 because everything leaks everywhere all the time.

Ya I meant purge-and-vent to empty out the oxygen in the keg, then fill it up and put it on the gas. Probably not ideal, but picking up a smaller keg may be cost-prohibitive

I mean in the native dialect of the region in which I live, Boh's and O's, hon.

Hi Gang Short version: Is there any harm in putting a 1-gallon batch into a 5-gallon corny keg? Longer version Okay so over the last few years I've been dealing with a string of injuries that made me temporarily unable or at least hesitant to lift any sort of weight - a torn labrum in my...

I found that my costs dropped a bit when I went all-grain, but there were a couple sacrificial batches in there while I dialed in the process. Helps if you can buy in bulk.

I'm in!

I'm 0-2 in brewing this one a totally different recipe. I came down with the plague the day after brewing the first batch, and had an overheated fermentation with the second batch. Is the third time the charm? Maybe it's time to try this one instead.

Good, glad it sounds like a fermentation problem rather than a process problem. I can control for that (I didn't, but I can). Bag from the LHBS says campden tabs. Used half a tab for 5 gallons of water in the keg - may have had an extra untreated gallon in there, but I don't recall having...

Yeah I think it's fair to say it's Band-Aid-ish. There's a sharp bitterness to it that also tastes kinda synthetic. Reminds me of some oil or another a former lady friend introduced me to. Tasted like hell, so had to mix it in with your smoothie or whatever.

Okay so my technically second All Grain brew day, made a half batch of Edwort's Bee Cave Pale Ale. Used tap water treated with a campden tablet, since bottled was hard to come by due to the coronavirus. Brew day went great - hit my mash volumes and temperatures, boil and final volumes looked...

I brewed my half batch on Sunday, and it too was a bit chunky. Figured I maybe didn't vorlauf long enough or let it settle out enough before.

Don't know about where Hout is, but around here the grocery stores are limiting how much water you can buy at a time. Normally I use Deer Park, but I'm going with tap water tomorrow. Hoping to get two brews going. Picked up some campden tabs yesterday at the LHBS. We'll see how the beers turn out.

Brewing up a half batch of this tomorrow. I have enough grain to do a full, but I'm not comfortable lifting a ~40-lb bucket of brew on account of a lingering injury. Haven't brewed since February, lookin forward to getting after it.

Took advantage of the nice weather this afternoon and brewed my first all-grain. Things went really smoothly. Couple of rookie mistakes and miscalculations (thirsty grains and a bigger-than-normal boil off), so I wound up with 4 gallons at the end of the day. Now I know better for next time.