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A full 19l big w pot no worries. pickaxe

By the way - induction stove elements get me a better boil than two crap stovetops I've had in the different units I've rented. Nice rolling boil for ad long as I want. Perfect actually. pickaxe

I have altered this method to go two pot with a bag in an insulated esky. Still 25l mash, 13l sparge, the Swiss voile bag drains quicker, but the twopot stovetop method is the same. Saves me time, beers are the same. Hitting good efficiency. Now my bucket Lauter sits under the stairs. I also...

I don't use an urn but two put stovetop method and have found that scraping hot break off with a spoon, like you would for a clear stock or broth, has reduced my trub dramatically. I scrape the surface scum just before I hit boiling point. I lose a little wort, but my efficiency is better, and...

I had bad efficiency early on and did a few things ti improve things, now hitting 67.5 - 25 l mash for 90 13l sparge. I remove hot break with my mash soon just before boil breaks. Which has lowered my trub issues. My thermometer was 1 degree out - so I compensate. With those volumes on 5-5.5kg...

Error - didn't mean malt forward. pickaxe

Further ti Chinook in a Saison - best thing ever, after trying a Murray's whale ale which changed my world on wheat beers, that Saison I put down its 2 weeks old and drinking great. Lightly bittered but Chinook makes more sense to me in this than my last attempts with Motueka and styrian...

Looks like yeast. pickaxe

+1 for room temperature. I get nice soft tender meat simply by doing most of the cooking in a marinade, or at least some kind of acid, oil and spice mix, and add meat near last once veges are cooked, then toss through shallots etc just to warm them. Very little cooking needed as the meat is...

I reckon it's mainly sure to people's palettes getting used to their own fare, massive fresh dry hopped big beers they're making. No supply chain across Australia is gonna compete with that! pickaxe

That being said - would a floral hop be suitable? Don't know which hop though? Or a darker raisin grain? Guess I'm talking Graff now? pickaxe

Any steeped grain suggestions? How do you guys reckon a half kilo of crystal steeped would go? Worth it? Appreciate the feedback on adding crushed apples to bought juice - there's a good thread suggested o hit of preshafruit in a store bought juice cider. I'm hitting a cider with black tea...

Read and heard in the cloves. Yeah the crystal was to try and add some toffee or caramel. Should I mini mash it high and get sweeter unfermentables? Thought just a steep would help with that? Vanilla sounds nice, might have to throw a bean in. Yeast is hard one though. Little temp control...

Hi All, Trying to put together a cider recipe and finding a lot of differing opinions, so I making blind decisions, wanting some feedback. 22L Apple juice. Probably Aldi. Now I'm thinking that a tea steeped in 2L water with: 500g Cracked Crystal Grain 3 x black tea bags 4 x Cinnamon Sticks 6...

**** that's high. What was your original gravity? Something's wrong. How does it smell and look? Sounds like the yeast didn't get going. Did you make a starter? Did you get a krausen? pickaxe

Man, the evil you could perpetrate with on of those kits if you were in catering or events. Attend a rivals function and just go round ******* with everyone's beer! Hahaha! Probably get arrested quickly though, running round with an eye dropper ' spiking' everyone's beer. Breaking news: rival...

Google 2 pot lauter ahb or pm goomba. He's in my friends list pickaxe

Classic mate, got a laugh from these. pickaxe

If you follow the instructions, and obviously you have the basics down, ag is simple. You'll never look back, I didn't, and it was only through reading here, watching YouTube, and getting stuck in. In hindsight, my mini mash and partial days were no less work than ag, and exactly the same...

I started doing mini mashes in a 4l drink bottle, bout kilo of grain to 2l water from memory, which really gave my extract brews something because it opened up all the grains for me to use beyond just stepping spec malts - ie a bit of Munich was my first success. Then I got a 15l drink bottle...