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4 Gallons This takes me back to 1979 when I bought my first house and definitely couldn"t afford to buy beer. Go ahead to 2017 and I still can't afford to buy beer. So, here I am making a kit beer. I have a 3 gallon keg, so I thought I would take this down to 4 gallons with only a lb. of corn sugar. 1 can of Brew Canada Draught - ( no date on can ) 1 lb. corn sugar US-05 50/50 RO/WELL water O.G. - 1.048 F.G. -  1.015 % -      4.37 My pots hold 2 gallons each. In separate pots, boil 2 gallons for 10 minutes and cool it. Dump in wort and top off with boiled and cooled water. Add corn sugar to carboy as it is. I did this years ago with no problems. Add yeast and enjoy your " INMATE " brew in 10 days. I put both pots outside to cool. It may take a few hours but that is okay. I had to bring them back in and add ice to the sink. Didn't take long, but it only got down to 75+ F. Added corn sugar and tossed it outside to cool to pitching temp. Temp is at 64...

15 Gallons 22 lbs. GWM 1 lb. Crystal 80 1 lb. Toasted Wheat Flakes 5 ozs. Choc malt 3 ozs. Carafa Special III EKG @ 60 min. 5.6% AA EKG @ 30 min. 5.6% AA Wyeast London Ale III 50/50 RO/WELL in mash 8 gallons well in sparge 4 gallons ro in sparge 1.50 qts/lb grain/water ratio O.G. - 1.049 F.G. -  1.014 % -       4.6 SRM - 13.4 - Looks just like the pic above, maybe slightly lighter though. BU - 27.8 I hope I got my water profile in range for this style of beer. I don't want to toss any more beer like I did last month. 2 batches, 8 cases of beer down the sink. The lager tasted like cough syrup and the bitter was infected. I used RO with water salts. Never, ever again. I do think I have got this right though. Will see in 14 days. Had a bit of trouble getting a good seal on the conical. No bubbling action from the hose, but when I checked there was a good krausen going on. Adjusted it 3 times and gave up. Give it 2-3 weeks and keg it. ...

4 Gallons This is just trying to brew a kit without adding corn sugar or any more extract. I bought an extract kit from Brewers Pantry last year and the extract twang was just awful. Hopefully, I can add 50% of this beer mashing 2 row and vienna malt. The wort tasted good, no extract twang yet. Trying to get the hops figured out on how much to use. I couldn't get any info from the kit, no surprise there. I assume it was from 12 - 15 bu's. I did taste hops when I took a gravity reading. It is fermenting now @ 66 F. 1.9 kg. - 4.19 lbs. Brew Canada Draught 4 lbs. Not so great Western Malt 8 ozs. Vienna 28.35 grams Hallertauer - 2/5% AA for 60 min. US-05 75/25 RO/WELL in mash 100% RO in the can, boiled 10 min. Tried to get 3 gallons in each of the pots on the stove, but they wouldn't hold that much. With evaporation I got 4 gallons, which isn't too bad I guess. Next time if this turns out I will make a bigger gravity in my mash so I can add some boiled and coo...

12 Gallons - ( post boil ) 20 lbs. NSGWM 2 lbs. Munich I 8 ozs. Caramunich III 8 ozs. Chocolate 5 ozs. Carafa Special III 13.5 grams Magnum - 13.20% AA @ 60 min. 13 grams Magnum @ 11.8% AA @ 60 min. 56.70 grams Hallertauer - 2.5% AA @ 30 min. WLP036 Dusseldorf Alt - Yeast pitched @ 12:30 pm. 50/50 in mash - 7.20 gallons - 1.25 qts./lb 8 gallons well in sparge 4 gallons RO in sparge O.G. - 1.046 F.G. -  1.016 ( carboy 1 ) % -     4% ( carboy 1 ) SRM - 16 BU - 26.5 I think I am done with Pilsners, Helles style beers etc. for awhile. I am getting nowhere with these styles of beers, and am kind of sick of them. These at least have lots of flavour and mostly I seem to have much better luck brewing darker styles of beers. ESB and bitters are up soon also. Wort tasted good, not cloying at all. Kind of light or bland because of all of the dark malts, and of course using 50/50 water in the mash may be the reason. I need to go with ...