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Priming solution or add sugar to individual bottles?
You do have the answer in your question. When brewing my first kit, I put the sugar in each bottle and here is my experience:
Have to measure sugar for each bottle, difficult and time consuming when ...
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Is an ice bath sufficient to quickly cool a small batch of wort?
Because you are brewing a small batch, I think that an ice bath will be quite sufficient, however you muct add more ice at regular intervals. I also suggest adding salt to your ice so that the melting ...
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Is an ice bath sufficient to quickly cool a small batch of wort?
I have done this with a 10 liter (2.5 gal) stock pot in my kitchen sink when I started brewing, also batches from 1 to 1.5 gallon. I did two things.
In the first step I cooled by letting water flow ...
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Is an ice bath sufficient to quickly cool a small batch of wort?
I do this with some of my five gallon batches. I have a rather big deep sink. I buy a couple of bags of ice and put the whole pot in there and fill with ice and water. It cools down quickly enough. ...
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Using 6kg's of grains for a 10liter batch Pale Ale brew
The first problem is that the Mangrove Jack's Empire Ale yeast has an alcohol tolerance of only 8%. Using some beer recipe software, the amount of malt you used would lead to an alcohol percentage of ...
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Using 6kg's of grains for a 10liter batch Pale Ale brew
I agree with chthon. In any case, the results will be different than the orginal recipe.
One thing that is affected by doubling the malt is the hop utilization. Hop utilization varies depending on ...
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Can I all grain brew 20 litre lager batch using 12 litre pot and same 4.3 kg grain bill?
You just had very poor mash efficiency.
All the causes and solutions have been covered in other Q&A here.
When done correctly you should be able to easily produce 10l of 1.096 wort post boil and ...
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