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Not a big deal but I thought it was worth sharing. I was doing a 5 gallon batch of an amber ale. Beersmith call for a total of 8.2 gallons of water (this is to include all my losses until I reach the fermenter). After sparging I still had 72oz of water set aside that did not get used and my boil...

Little early but its coming quick! Who's already thinking about it and what are you brewing?

I had been leaving it in the middle of the chiller while the temp was dropping for ease of checking. How does everyone else do it. So everyone knows, I am teachable, this was my 4th batch of beer in 2 months. I am still a noob willing to take advice.

This place is just full of one good idea after another! Gotta love it.

good call with the coffee filter.

Not sure, either it was hit by the chiller being removed or whacked with the spoon. Didnt notice it was broken until after it was transferred to the primary.

I was thinking I would transfer to the secondary and use a fine strainer. I also keg, so I can strain it again at that point just in case.

Very true, i will be shopping for a plastic one!

Just so we can all see what was at stake here (6.5 gallons of a wit)

thanks for the tip, here is the broken thermometer with magnet attached!!!!! Going to open beer now and de-stress:)

I originally posted this thread from my phone which is hard to search the forum on for past threads, but now that im home and searched, it looks like the balls may be steel. i will keep searching till I know for sure. I will transfer to a secondary to make sure there is no glass in the primary.

Decided to do a night brew last night since the cooler weather has arrived. All appeared to go perfect, until this morning. Some how my floating thermometer broke off the bottom and the lead pellets ended up in boiler. Not sure if any made it into the fermenter. Should I be concerned.

Based on the test I did yesterday From boil to cooling the loss was 1.39 total. As stated in a previous post, I lost 1.1 gal during boil and .29 during cooling. In my profile should I just enter 1.39 into the boil off field or the 1.1 and use the percentage to make up the cooling difference(.29)?

thank you

actually that seems pretty clear, thnx for the input.

So no matter what my loss is going to be 1.39, whether i do 5, 6.5 or 8 gallon batches. correct?

Does this make sense: I did a test. i boiled 5 gallons of water to determine evap loss. I lost 1.1 gallons before chilling and then an additional .29 when cooled. Total loss of 1.39 gallons. If Im going for 6.5 gallon batches does the math 1.39 / 5 = .278 which gives me a per gallon loss...

here is what I did and my results: Measured out 5 gallons of water and boiled for 60 minutes. Before cooling I measured 1.1 gallons lost Cooled to 80 deg with wort chiller and recorded an additional loss of .29 gallons Total loss = 1.39 gallons The only thing left out of this process is the...

also I dont see a way to take off the % and change it to a value instead. any ideas?

I have not done that yet. I will head out to the garage today and do that. I've only done 4 batches so far but Im trying to fine tune so I can be consistent. thnx