there has to be many a way to do it, here's mine. after boil is complete I cool by setting kettle in cold water bath. ya I know, slow and kind of old school but it takes me about 30 min. while its cooling I do whirl pool . then after a couple of home brews I transfer to carboy. I leave about 1/2 gal...

hey, I'm an all grain brewer with 31 batches now. still learning stuff but on the most part into brewing better cheaper and easier. I harvest yeast, grow hops, and bottle all my beer. planning on trying to make some of my own specialty grains in the oven but not there yet. just brewed what I call an...

Hey, stick a pin in me at 55060 that's southern Minnesota. tried to do this a while back but gave up. still a noob on this site but that may change here since the weather is getting more in the brewing temps for me.

hi all, pretty new here but from what I see about efficiency in this set up is that there are two things that jump out. stepping rye instead of mashing and the possibility of mash ph and more importantly in this case, sprage water ph may be high. need to test the waters. ha ha just made a joke and d...

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