I have some questions about these two steps in the all-grain brewing process. Mashout: For my first couple recipes where I mashed in the brewpot, I could simply turn on the heat and increase to mashout temp. The first time I used a cooler to mash, I tried to mashout by adding hot water, but I...

Purchased an aeration kit from northernbrewer.com and the disposable tank from my local hardware store doesn't fit. It's really close, but it won't actually thread. Do I have the wrong tank?

I am making an all-grain barleywine recipe that I am trying to enter into the recipe editor. This includes 1lb of Dextrose that is added 60 minutes into the boil. In the recipe editor, I can enter this in the "Fermentables" part, but I think this would be wrong because it isn't part of the...

I am trying to enter this recipe, (https://bitterandesters.com/collections/beer-kits/products/conifer-conspiracy), into the recipe editor. My recipe is here: https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1095670/conifer-conspiracy I was hoping someone could look over the recipe and what I...

As a beginner, I use pre-built recipes from my local homebrew shop, Bitter and Esters. Is it best to upload the recipe specifics in the recipe creator here and use the calculators to determine strike temp/volume, etc?

I am trying to make 5 gallon batches of all-grain recipes, but my boil-off rate is very slow, about 0.5 gallons/hour. SO if I start with 6.5 gallons of wort as most recipes say, I end up with 6 gallons after the boil. Is it best to start out with less wort, say 5.5 gallons so that I am at 5...