A digital scale was utilized to ensure each new 7.9-gallon plastic bucket fermenter received exactly 20 pounds of honey. Each bucket was topped off with water to exactly the 6-gallon …
A good starting point with most fruits is about 3 pounds of fruit per gallon of mead, though I have been known to use 5 or even 6 pounds of fruit. Fruit blends can produce some great-tasting …
extract. When you target an OG with malt extract, it’s as simple as multiplying the weight of the extract in pounds by its yield (36 gravity points per pound per gallon for liquid malt extract or …
Hazy IPAs (aka New England-style IPAs) aren’t just known for their signature cloudy look. Unlike the classic American IPA, these cloudy IPAs have a low level of bitterness and restrained malt …
Once boiling, add 5 ounces (141.7 g) of priming sugar (dextrose), and boil for 10 minutes. If you’ll be bottling less than 5 gallons (18.9 L), a good rule of thumb is to use 1 ounce of priming …
When it was first built in 2009, I was using 5-gallon orange coolers for my hot liquor tank and mashtuns. I quickly changed to 10-gallon coolers because some of the recipes I wanted to …
Steep tank: This can be a 5-gallon, food-grade plastic bucket with holes drilled into the bottom placed into another 5-gallon bucket without holes drilled in the bottom. The old “Zap Pap” …
To make this contraption, Hill took a 5-gallon bucket lid and cut two pieces of the reflective bubble wrap, which he secured to each side of the lid using zip ties. Additional holes were drilled in …
Assume 7 gallon pre-boil volume Grain absorbs: 10lbs x 0.3 qts/lb = 0.75 gal water No mash deadspace, since we have no mash screen Mash water infusion= 7+0.75 = 7.75 gallons Will it …