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Mark, Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Your contributions on this forum are always extremely valuable. Not to detract from your extremely thorough answer, however if anyone else ever looks for this: SG=(4x)/1000+1 therefore x=(SG-1)*1000/4 3.192/24.72=0.129 or as a percent...

Pretty simple question but i cant seem to find an answer without converting from ppg to i dont even know what. Anyone know a formula to calculate the SG increase you get from dextrose or other sugars in KG/L assuming dextrose has an extract potential of 1.046?

Using the same % ABV's as above: 5% - 100kg - 157kg/m2 - 0.33m high grain bed 6% - 120kg - 189kg/m2- 0.40m high grain bed 7% - 140kg - 220kg/m2 - 0.47m high grain bed So not quite ideal. I checked the numbers before i forked out for these and figured that even though they're a bit tall and...

Hi Guys, Ive scored 4 large SS304 pots, 0.9m diameter x 1.2m high am im planning on building a big ass brew system out of them. Ive got a couple of questions about design and lautering i wanted to run past everyone and see what options are actually available vs steaming ahead with a build...

Great answer Mark. Thanks for taking the time to educate.

Thanks for the replies gents, I built my setup as a 4V HERMS so i did go the recirculating route. Turns out from my recent googling it was more of a K-HERMS as i had the volume split over the HLT/BK and MT, recirculating through the HEX. Both HLT/BK and MT are converted keggles. Essentially...

There is a lot of bad information around I agree. and to make it worse every book has a different definition of efficiency. I will continue to play with this full volume mash and see what happens but I don’t see the numbers jumping considerably as I can usually get 100% conversion in the mash.

Hi All, Recently thought id try my hand at full volume brewing as something to try and as a way to save time by cutting out the sparge all together. Ive read lots of old threads online of people saying they're getting 75%+ efficiency and im just trying to figure out how this works in a full...

1.076 to 1.010 in 3 days

Good point. 1l of syrup in 26l of wort

2 hours after transferring onto the yeast cake fermentation has started - it’s swirling and off gassing, now I’m worried I would of essentially over pitched with it being 1.076 wort. We’ll see what it turns out like, hopefully it at least gets some of the Candi flavours

So i tried to brew a big dark saison as i had a 3711 yeast cake from a 7% beer that i just bottled: Bill: 4.5kg pils 0.8kg munich 0.8kg wheat malt 0.45kg armomatic 0.2kg carafa ii special 20 min @ 50 deg 60 min @ 65 deg 10 min @ 70 deg 5 min @ 78 deg - mash out Fly sparge for 45 min - pre...

What are you using to get the read out in your phone?

Here’s my cobbled together 4v setup. No fancy control panel yet just a dedicated 30A circuit and 6 10A plugs on the back wall. Double batching last night, got one on the boil and another mashing, took me a while to dial it in but it’s working good now. The cheap $10 kettle with 2.5m of copper in...

Last time I was there they didn’t have it and the website doesn’t list it. Probably my favourite lhbs even though I’m in the Southside. No affiliation!