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'Cause nothin' gets you hotter, quicker, than a blown headgasket! Yeah, we're all major gearheads. OK, here's the premise... we'll be making a 10gal mash-in, then splitting it (50/50, not partigyle) between two beers. Since they're both experimental recipes, I wanna hedge my bets and get more...

Here's a weird one, curious to see what the group thinks. Making our IPA recipe... have made it numerous times, just down to tweaking hops at this point: 20# 2 row 3# 10L 4oz Carapils 10.5gal target into fermenter with 60min mash @150, 60min boil, 12gal pre-boil volume. 1.056 pre-boil SG...

Brewed our first parti-gyle batch over the weekend; much fun, a bit hectic managing 2 simultaneous boils, but worth the trouble! Much nicer to have higher efficiency both with grain extraction and with time invested! Took about 6hrs vs. our typical 4hrs for a 10gal batch. Main constraint now is...

Has anyone out there actually brewed "small beer?" How? We have a batch of beer that went really wrong; in short, too sweet and strong to be much in the way of drinkable. In long - read my "Total Disaster" thread and have a laugh! The problem batch was originally intended to become an IPA...

Yesterday was our first time, after months of relatively successful AG brewing, that was pretty much a complete disaster, a total chitstorm... Moral of the story: don't brew like I do. It started with, and this was probably the biggest issue, an error in translation on the order. Emailed...

Submitted for your amusement... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS0GtAeyRZA&feature=youtu.be We were making a 5-gal batch of Shining Star Pale Ale from Northern Brew that we reformulated into "Siamese Surprise" - a pale ale with Thai chili peppers and fresh ginger. Unfortunately, the...

By way of intro, pics of our new all-grain rig. I've gotten together with some fellow racers, who've I've managed to lure back into home-brewing it seems. They had some prior experience using canned kits... then we enjoyed the Detroit Brew Factory while it was around (RIP!)... got back to the...