Recent content by TJKelley

No doubt, The award goes to Trolls 2.

Relaxing with a home brewed milk stout on a not so sunny Sunday in south Fl. Brewing up a 5 gallon batch of my Local suppliers IPA. Anyone else brewing today?

I was using just a standard grain sock with 1 pound American two row pale and 8 oz. of wheat malt

Any ideas to raise it a bit? Or should I just throw in the yeast and see what happens

True, I normally wouldn't wanna do a 1 gallon batch, but I wanna try to experiment with some mangoes and various things and don't feel like messing up an entire 5 haha. And yeah I mashed in 3 quarts, then rinsed grains with a gallon on 160 degree water. After boil off, it was just a little under...

Yeah I basically steeped it for 45 min, stirring every 15 min. In 150 degree water

I'm not really sure how fine it should be... This is my first all grain batch but my LBS is known for its quality and I'm there quite frequently picking up extract batches. The guy milled everything up for me right there when I picked it out

I did have to top it off with water to reach the full gallon, but I shook it up pretty good before taking my reading. Also, the temp was around 85 but I don't think it could affect it that much.

Today I switched over to all grain by brewing up a 1 gallon batch of a simple American wheat. I used a grain sock to mash the grains in, so I guess it would be considered the "BIAB" method. After mashing, I rinsed the sock over the boiling pit with hot water to extract the rest of the sugars...