My gas range won't get 5 gallons boiling. I can use a propane burner in the garage to get done. Pollen is in the air here in south Texas so I'm concerned about that. Would I be better off boiling 3 gallons inside ? Also my water is very hard (12.6) can i use that or should i buy bottled water? chlorine is taken out. Thank you for your help.
Full boil vs partial boil
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Depending on how hard you could cut it and brew Amber brown dark styles.
You gotta do what's necessary boil In two pots half your hoppidge into both.
Don't stress on the pollen boiling will sort that.
It's once the wort is chilled you gotta be more carefull.
Alfoil over top or lid will suffice and get a good healthy pitch in.
Cheers don't sweat it enjoy the process
Welcome to the forum. Ben gives good advice. If it’s too hard cut it or use bottled. As long as chlorimine and chlorine are out you are good. Don’t worry about the pollen if you cover once you stop the boil, I also use foil.
All-grain or extract? I do partial boils with extract all the time.
Thank you for the advise. I think I may go with a partial boil then add chilled bottled water to get up to 5 gallons. Then use my wort chiller before pitching yeast.
This will be an extract brew.
Sweet mate nothing wrong with that it's how most extract kits operate.
There is a dilution calculator on the site here that will help diluting partial boil down.
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Tell us some more about your water. I know I'm still on my first coffee but 12.6 pH? Yikes! How's your skin?
Water with chlorine in it is going to make awful beer so RO may be in your future for a lower pH and no additives to screw with the taste.
As far as covers go, Ben is right, foil or a couple of clean dish towels works great during the chill down....that process should not take so long that the pollen would matter.
Water with chlorine in it is going to make awful beer so RO may be in your future for a lower pH and no additives to screw with the taste.
As far as covers go, Ben is right, foil or a couple of clean dish towels works great during the chill down....that process should not take so long that the pollen would matter.
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When I do an extract batch (3 gallons) I heat up about one gallon, steep the specialty grains, if used, mix in 1/3 the extract and bring to a boil unless I'm doing no-boil. After the boil I mix in the remaining extract and add two gallons of ice cold water which brings it down to yeast pitching temperature.
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I use the hell out of this boil off calculator
You can partial cover the pot too. It's been pretty well documented that even just a crack is enough and you won't get the off flavors. Also as others said, I often boil much less and then top it off at the end using the boil off calculator. And I use bottled spring water from the store, but I only brew once a month. I imaged that would get expensive if you brew more often.
I think he means 12.6 grains of hardness. That's about middle of the road, possibly enough to need a water softener for many people but it's not like Burton water
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I'm like you and do mostly extract brewing. A Wards Labs "Brewers" water test was the best money I've spent and improved my beer brewing the most. Now, I know to use mostly RO water for my IPA's and some tap water for my amber and browns (it will be different for you), and some tap water for my steeping grains. Its your beer so play and enjoy. We all make some that are not what we expect but learn the most from those batches. FYI - Ward Labs sends a prepaid kit with the sampling bottle, return postage label, and all. Really easy for the beginning brewer.
