When I finally get a sculpture started, I'm gonna finish my keggles and keg mash tun.  for now, I'm perfecting the RIMS portion of the setup

Gonna start it tomorrow. Just gotta pick up some bourbon and a funnel.. don't want to use the car one lol.  Any one just use the sanitizer a kit comes with?  I had to get the exact instructions on pdf from the site.. 

Anything think I can add to this one? 

I would follow the directions as closely as possible, to include using the sanitizer that came with it, for your first batch at least.  You are making a bigger jump than most by going all grain to start, so keep it simple! Just like checking the valves on the duc... one step at a time.

I just googled that 1 gallon kit, thats quite nice! I'm gonna recommend that to a few folks that have been putting off all grain because they think it's too hard!

Hey Punx, do you batch or fly sprage? If batch, do you mash out? If so, how did you do it? (Before the rims system I mean)

I've been using beersmith, and it seems everytime I try to batch sparge usuing it's calculations, I come up short on my pre-boil volume batch sparging. Sometimes I have too much, sometimes too little, it's getting aggrivating, I want to get my 2 tier up and running so I can just fly sparge. I originally thought my pot was marked incorrectly, (that I use to measure out the mash/sparge water) so I started using my bucket, which is also marked, and what I used to mark my sight glass on my brew kettle so it would be the same, still ended up a gallon short last run, it's annoying.

I just got 2 brew kits for Christmas so i guess ill be starting to make some

Batch sparge... and I used to have no problems with brewsmiths calculations... but lately it seems like I've come up short too.  Today I have an extra gallon or two of weak wort to throw in at the end of the boil if I come up short.  I'm not anticipating it, but it's there in case.

Before I had the rims, I didn't really mash out (but now with the rims, I'm loving mashes).  Just started heating the wort as soon as it was in the kettle from each sparge.  I use my spoon as a "story stick" to measure volume in my big kettle.  Today I checked my 6-gallon mark.  Anyways, my beer has been consistantly good, so I'm not terribly worried.

Grains only means?

This kit has hops and yeast..

Quote from: cokey on December 28, 2011, 10:46:48 AM
Grains only means?

This kit has hops and yeast..

All grain is a type of brewing that means you literally, extract sugar from the grains from your brew. Your kit is teaching you how to do that and is considered "more advanced" than the other form of brewing which is extract.

I've brewed 2 times this week... 5 gallons of IPA that will take a while to ferment, and 10 gallons of Blonde Ale that should ferment out in a week!

All grain takes longer?  Says this ones ready to drink in a month?

All grain takes longer on brew day... IE, more time in the kitchen.  Ferment/conditioning time depends on the style of beer (stout, pilsner, whatever).

That being said... I'm getting my all-grain brew days down to about 4 hours, a little longer for the 10 gallon batch cause I tried a lot of new stuff.

Cool..  the one gallon should be done quick but for this recipe it seems about 2 weeks fermentation and 2 weeks in bottles

Zomg. Finally dmf is on tapatalk. Finally

The Irish Ale has turned out great, http://www.brewerschoice.com.au/images/stories/recipes/beer_recipes/maltsters%20shovel%20amber%20ale.pdf unfortunately it's too damn hot to be doing any brewing for the next couple of months.
(I'm too tight to build a cooler)

I brewed a pumpkin ale and let it ferment at 90+. And everyone I gave it to loves it, soooooooo........