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I aquired a 20gal Stainless Steel fermentor, but i am not really interested in making batches bigger than 5 gallons. This fermentor came from a hospital and was used to store steral scrub water for operating doctors. It has a bowl bottom with a spigot mounted on it (like a conical, but bowlical) it ...

Thanks, I wondered why some were calling it "hop break". anyhow if this is normal i will sleep now. Acually it is fermenting like a !@#$ right now.

I just brewed a Big Pale Ale, and experianced what I thought to be excessive clumping in the wart. My procedure was mash for 50 min at 150-160, raise temp to 175 for 10 min, and sparge out with 160 degree all F. I brought the wart to a boil which took probably 10 min and let it go for another 15-20 ...

I needed more beer in the test tube, It tastes fine. I am using a new test tube and i did not fill it enough. I am at 1.012 so i think i am good. I just paniced, this is my first all-grain.

I am brewing an American Pale Ale with OG supposed to be at 1.061 and FG at 1.014. Mistakenly i forgot to take a reading before i pitched the yeast, and when i went to take a reading before i transfered to the secondary i got a reading of 0.099. Could anyone tell me what is possibly wrong.