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I tried cutting a 1" hole in my brewpot lid with a stepped bit but I got stuck at 3/4" diameter after I worked it too hard. Any suggestions for how to finish it out? Can it be worked with a hand file? A dremel?

Well crap, I have a Saison I was very proud of, fermented with the dregs from a bottle of Oddwood Saison (has Belgain Sach yeast & Brett) over the past 6 months. I bottled it 8 days ago with some champagne yeast.... but no priming sugar. Epic fail. Just completely forgot. The beer was at...

I never seem to get the increase in gravity I would expect from the boil off. For example today my previous boil gravity was 1.056 at 6.5 gallons. After a 75 minute boil the volume was about 5.5 gallons but my gravity only increased to 1.060. I expected more like 1.066. The wort was cool in...

This is more of a thought experiment since I don't have time to do the research right now. 1. So far I've been cooling my wort using my double-coil immersion chiller. One coil sits in an ice-water bath and the other in the wort. I run water from the garden hose through it. 2. Another idea...

I'm curious if anyone has ever come up with an idea to use the water pressure in a coil immersion chiller to somehow also create a whirlpool. It just seems like I already have this force available to me in the form of water pressure from my hose it would be so cool if this could be used to stir...

I've been gradually modifying my AG cooler mash tun system to try to get more accurate but my mash efficiency always seems to be stuck in the low to mid 60's. I'm not shooting for anything beyond 80% but 75% would be nice and I can't see why I can't achieve that based on what others have said...

I have a fermentation chiller (double coil so one end sits in ice bath) which works pretty well but I'm on the lookout for any bright ideas for a cheap container I could sit the brewpot in and create an external ice bath to help the cooling process along faster. I think my brewpot is ~15"...

I'm still relatively new to AG and yesterday I brewed a batch of 80 shilling Scottish Ale. I used to just ferment at room temp in a plastic bucket but I wanted to improve my quality so I built an Igloo Ice Box cooler to improve the temp control of the ferment some. I built it to hold the glass...