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I see this has come and gone a couple of weeks ago, but in case someone else ever has this problem I think you could look at a couple of solutions. Since you hadn't pitched yet, you could have done a small hop boil - e.g. make up a few L of wort, or even better, use some of your wort, do a small boi...

Keeping the bag & grains raised while raising mash temp?

Hi all, just curious as to the best method for preventing any grain and bag burning while we raise the temp (e.g. Step mash or mash out)? I have a ceramic glass stovetop & have stirred while heating, but was thinking I could use something like a wire baking rack or similar to keep the bag from resti...

Don't mean to drag up an old thread but Ralph 5.5kg of grain - respect! I am using a pretty similar method to you and that seems crazy! Obviously you brew a tonne like this and I have seen many quotes of around 4KG max for Maxi BIAB, but where have you found the limits of - easy/ good beer in 19L po...

I'm a stovetop brewer and have to wipe down the extraction fan every 10 mins or so during a boil, don't want anything nasty dropping in!

That said, the fan doesn't seem to do anything, I wonder what it takes to actually get a good extraction fan set up...

Hi Koda, weirdly enough, I was just reading: http://blog.bracio.com/2012/09/splitting-liquid-yeast-packs.html which is a pretty simple method for splitting Wyeast smack packs. I'm pretty much a yeast newbie having only tried rinsing yeast once, but I believe the advantage of splitting a liquid yeast...

I've been in to Dave's a few times and he is excellent. Super helpful, offered to answer questions over phone, email whatever and even troubleshoot my beers if the first couple tasted off and I wanted some pointers. Would recommend for someone starting out as he can set you up with everything you ne...

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