BeerSmith said OG to be at 1.064, long hold behold that's what I got. I just noticed that in the final copy of the recipe it says 7 gallons after boil. Wtf is going on here?
I just finished my brew today and I noticed that I had about 2 gallons of excess wort and that's after filling a 6 gallon carboy. Luckily I had another carboy and dumped it in there. It's currently cooling in my basement before I pitch yeast, but is this normal?
Here's the recipe...
So my APA has just finished in secondary and it's ready to bottle up. My question is which method is best (i.e. carb tablets, LME, priming sugar, etc) I guess which method has the best consistency?
I'm going to go with the original all Citra recipe. Especially with theses ultra fresh hops I think it'll turn out great. Now here's another question for you guys did it taste great from the keg or when it was bottled and what carbing method did you use? (i.e. LME, tablets, sugar)
I just received my pound of Citra hops that were this year's crop at 14.4% AA. For the guys that have brewed it already would you still recommend the 50/50 mix of Chinook with it? Or should I keep it all Citra?
I was at the office Christmas party and a good buddy from the south was able to score some authentic backwoods Tennessee moonshine. Needless to say I'm still pretty ****ed up.
So my co-worker was generous enough to give me a brand new water cooler to convert into a mash tun. I went to Home Depot and Lowe's to buy the supplies needed by going off this guy's part list. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/cheap-easy-10-gallon-rubbermaid-mlt-conversion-23008/
I test...
I use my keggle for 5 gal. bathes and it works just great. The worry of boil overs are non-existant. As for the melting just as long as they are in the center of the pot so that they aren't touching the hot walls.
So I was thinking that most of us here have a copper wort chiller that we use after the boil process. Knowing that the cold months are coming I really don't want to use my garden hose and have my water lines freeze and explode. I thought of taking some of those big Ziploc bags filled with water...