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It doesn't match BTP either. Unless I've messed up the recipe, I just set BTP for an 11 gallon batch of 1.061 O.G. using 2 ounces of Simcoe 12.9%AA LEAF hops (so that I wouldn't need a pellet correction formula) for a one-hour boil using the Tinseth Formulas for both 'Boil Time' and 'Gravity Correct...

I'd love to get 88%. I average around 81 or 82%, give or take a point. But I batch sparge because it's easier, and I am probably losing a couple of points from that. I don't hear of many brewers reaching 88% ... consistently ... so you have things adjusted about as much as possible. I do get higher ...

snip ... I've also built a ... hop dryer ... snip ... Most of the things I've built I could have figured out on my own (aside from the hop dryer) ... snip I saw or heard of an idea somewhere (probably on my Grow-Hops group) for a hop dryer that consists of merely taking an old chest of drawers (bed...

I agree... Designing Great Beers is an excellent book. When I first picked it up, I thought I was back in high school looking at a science book, but it's really a resource I wouldn't want to do without now. I'm also a fan of Brew Ware. Not for it's brewing information (of which there is little) but...

Using btp program atm to generate my next recipe. Still, I like the simplicity and ease in using the online recipe calculator. Derek, I'm very intrigued by that statement. I've never used the on-line tools, so I went there to see why it would be easier or somehow better; unfortunately, I allowed my...

snip ... about the flaked barley- we were told to ad it directly to the boil. ... snip Well, I suspected as much; that's the only way it would have been physically possible to get that much solid material in your fermenter. Your source of advice clearly doesn't know what he/she is talking about ......

I'd like to qualify myself; while I've read numerous sources which have indicated that 68F is the _ideal_ ale fermentation temp (I think some might suggest slightly below that, like 65F, -- but that was probably for a particular strain) ... that doesn't mean that you MUST ferment at 68F. Frankly, I ...

I was just unsure how much ferementation can happen in the 1st 12 hours. That was the question I really couldn't answer other than to say somewhere between none and a lot. The variability between batches/brewers/yeast is just too great. In most cases, it's probably closer to "not that much&quo...

Please forgive me if that sounds like an insulting question, but I note that your question was your very first post, and other than your comment that you've brewed a porter before, I have no idea what your level of brewing experience is. And you indicate that you might not have stirred your kettle e...

I also live a good distance from my LHBS, so it's not very convenient to make a long trip just to pick up yeast if I already have everything else. Sooo ... what I do if I want to brew and don't have any yeast ... (which doesn't happen very often, but in 12 years of brewing, it does happened a few ti...

Thanks, Jeff. I didn't know, so I was just asking. What about my idea for somehow protecting those graphs from being changed by accident or whatever. I'm pretty clumsy ... especially if I've had a few homebrews. I'd hate to ruin the graphs ... and worse yet -- change them and not even know that they...

Thanks for confirming that, Colorado.

Jeff, is there some reason for the decline in utilization, mentioned above? I don't see how that would be possible. Is the graph just off, or is there a glitch in the formula that creates it?

Cheers.

Bill Velek

I don't visit the hop utilization function very often, and probably never noticed this ... or perhaps I was playing around with the program and managed to screw things up by accident ... but can someone check the graph for the "Fowler Boil Time Formula" and tell me whether your computer sh...

they will grow much higher than six ft the first year. Limit to approx 3 bines from each rhizome. Your yield will be low first year or so, third year mine really took off. I'm splitting my rhizomes this year and giving some to my buddy. I'm not saying that you are wrong, but most literature I've re...

This will be short because I don't have much time right now. The size of your harvest will vary depending upon the variety of hop, the suitability of that particular variety to your own location and growing conditions, and all of the other things that typically affect the productivity of any crop --...