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I beat you to the punch. Just measured tonight.

Sounds good. I'll test it all out on my next batch. I think I'll be brewing another this weekend. Thanks for the help.

Someone pointed out that I left out the contribution of the dissolved sugar to the wort volume. Conversion Efficiency is calculated from the First Runnings Gravity and the total volume in the mash. The total volume in the mash can be calculated with this formula, to a tenth of a gallon: S x (1 + A ...

I poured my wort through a strainer into the fermenter, so I wouldn't this the little bit trapped in the hop debris would make a huge difference. I also though efficiency should be the same. I have a horrible hydrometer though and intend on buying something nicer. Mine doesn't like to read well when...

The grains I bought were actually crushed by the company who supplies grain to my LHBS. The crush is always great when it comes like this. I have to pay an extra few cents per pound, but it's worth it. When I've used the mill at the LHBS, it gives me a horrible crush, so I stopped using it. Anyway.....

Bare with me, this could be a long post. I've brewed around 10 all-grain batches so far. All of these batches have been consistantly low efficiencies. I average around 60%. I buy my grains pre-crushed from the LHBS (not somthing they crush themselves), so I don't think it has much to do with my grai...

Hey all, Currently, I only have space in my kegorator for 2 kegs. I've only been brewing when one of the kegs run dry, but this leaves me with no beer for a week or so after the second runs dry. I'm on vacation from work for the next week, so I'd like to brew maybe every other day and get 3-4 batche...

I think he waters his every few days or so. They look good, they just aren't growing. I think his tallest is about 5-6'. Mine were planted a week later in my yard and they probably would have grown to 20' if I let them. I only built my trellis about 12' tall because I didn't expect even 10 feet this...

Nicely done. It'd be interesting to see if they do as good as rhizomes planted in the ground. My buddy is growing some on the roof of his apartment and they're doing horrible.

Bill, I heard that you shouldn't cut the leaves off the bottom few feet until the second year. Is that right? I was thinking about doing it this year, but I'm just sort of letting them go at this point. I want them to spread their wings.

You're brew is quite high. It should have been around 1.046. And I can't even begin to think of what could have caused that.

Yeah, I did the same thing. I actually went to the water dept. They told me I'd have to talk to the guy who does all the lab work. He wasn't in, so I left a message for him to get back to me. Two weeks later he calls me, and the guy didn't seem to have a clue about what I needed. I think I'm just go...

I just got back a second water report that I sent to ward labs. You see we get this report from United Water in North Jersey here and for all intents and purposes I find it absolutely useless. First it is about 12 pages long with so much BS I want to puke and second the variances are so large that ...

I don't suspect disease. I've been out a couple times to inspect everything and I've been pretty good about spraying them. As you said though, mine don't seem to be affected by the bottom leaves not doing well. I've got flowers on two of the three plants. They're only about 1/4", but I'm fine w...

Some homebrew mash tuns have glass sights on the side of the pot. Could you fashion something like this to view the level below the yeast?