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Thank you for sending the links - the information will be very helpful! We have basically been batch sparging; however, after reading up on it some more, we haven't let the sparge water sit in the grain long enough to really extract enough sugar. Hopefully, the next batch will work out a bit better ...

Slothrob: Thanks for your response. We recently brewed 15 gal of a brown ale, which had a post mash (after sparging) gravity of 1.050 at a volume of 16.5 gal. We used 31 pounds of grain, so the efficiency was 26.6. After boiling, our target OG was 1.059; we hit 1.057. As for our chocolate imperial s...

We have had some difficulty hitting out original gravity on higher gravity beers, and I'm hoping some of you more experienced folks can help. Just a little background info: We have an all-grain brewing setup, with a 20 gal Megapot with false bottom and most of our batches are 15 gal. We mash at abou...

Does anyone have any experience using hazelnuts as an ingredient? We are planning a nut brown ale and would like to add in some fresh roasted hazelnuts (don't want to use any extract flavoring). We previously used some toasted pecans for a stout, but the flavor was not very apparent. Any information...