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Are you close to the Oregon border or willing to ship? I'll pay shipping Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

+10 gal more for me... hit the century mark with 100 gals total :D =56870.5 cheers!

Idk what you are all talking about, sounds like a stand up citizen, I can't believe he is unemployed.

You shouldn't, a lot of it will settle out. Some brewers think that added mineral content may even help fermentation in some capacity. Either way, shouldn't be a problem

Yup, refractometer won't read correctly with any amount of alcohol, you can look at "corrections" online and do a little math, but I wouldn't really trust them

A good "rolling" boil makes for better beer... You can tell if it's rolling, boiling temp can change very slightly (pressure/temp) and then add some variability of your thermometer reading +\- .5deg your temp if prolly fine

Whatever you choose to do (could buy cooler for mash tun and start making larger batches;)) keep in mind what measures you need to take to protect aluminum https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/faq-aluminum-pots-boil-kettles-49449/ Good luck

Oatis Stout clone 10gal American farmhouse 10gal Agave wheat 5gal Belgian saison 10gal Berliner Weisse 10gal Farmhouse 5gal Saison 5gal DIPA 10gal Good human clone 10gal +75 =51374!!! Pretty good year, can't wait to see what the final amount it

Ya, you should be okay... Increasing temp will help, it is some what common to under pitch and compensate with temp to keep the little buggers alive and fermenting

Preferably you rinse with 165 deg water... My friend is a BIAB brewer and he rinses with hose water. Just completely rinse until running is getting clear... It will help a lot, there is a lot of sugar in the mash and rinsing will help you out a lot... Hope this helps

The only thing I can think of right now is rinsing the grains to get all of the sugar is the only thing way out of the norm... If your water is too alkaline then the starches/sugar won't become soluble, but that's pretty bit picky and probably not the main source of your issue

Ya I read that. DME shouldn't be an issue, toss it in, boil it and it should be dissolved. It has to be something with your grain, temp, dilution or something like that. DME is completely soluble in water as is

Hmm... If it was close to room temp the OG is probably pretty accurate. Did you rinse the grains after you steeped them?

What temp did you take the hydrometer reading. If I you took it while the wort was warm then the reading will read lower then the actual... It can be pretty significant

And did you crush the grain?