A quick rant.

• Mash doesn't know if it's in a recirculating system. 
• Enzymes don't care if they're running through a pump. 
• Recirculating is to keep temperatures perfect and free the sugars into solution, it does not put more grain in contact with enzymes.   The
  
  enzymes are in the grains already.  
• Having said that I really want a Colorado Brewing System, or a System from Brau Supply.
• A mash paddle,  can easily keep your temperatures consistent and your sugar in solution.  
• Better gear only makes sense if it means your brewing gets easier and better.  
• Knowing your gear is way more important than new gear.  
• Fermentation control and proper yeast pitch are way way way more important than recirculation of mash.  
• when you wash yeast , you actually want the stuff from the bottom.  Head over to woodland brew and read up.  In fact get Steve's book and read up.  
• Yeast slurry is way more viable than a starter.  
• You don't need a Kabillion yeast cells,  viability is more important. 
• You can not clean enough.  repeat.  
• If you can't brew a near perfect 1.045 cream ale,  your process needs work.  
• If you buy a home brew system that costs thousands of dollars, and you don't have a college fund for your kids,  you missed the point... of life. 
• If you buy or build a home brew system,  before you can control fermentation temperatures,  you missed the point. 

• North Carolina Home brew... great fermentation chamber 
• Meat does not go in beer. 
• 6 is your friend,  6 malts maximum, 6 hops maximum,  1.06 target.  
• Not all beer should be royal or imperial.   Enough already with the 1.09 beers.  Again I say if you can't brew a nearly perfect 1.045 cream ale, you need work on your procedures.  
• You don't just  "go pro" running a brewery is not the same as making home brew.   Unless you're a great business person,  and a truly
  
  great brewer, focus on getting better and having fun.  
• Any one,  yes any one,  can make a dipa that tastes pretty darn good,  anyone, yes anyone, can make a ris that comes out bold and malty.   Learn to make beers where you can't hide flaws behind huge hops and malt.    Then will you truly be a brewing jedi!
• If you can't lager,  don't spend money on a new brew system.  
• Several of the  AHA NHC award winners, won the award with a turkey fryer,  a voile bag, and a big pot.   They all had fermentation temperature control.  
• Electric brewing means more cleaning than stove top or simple 3 v gravity brewing.   You have to clean the elements and the valves, hot boiling water is not enough.  
• Rims brewing is even more cleaning.  Especially 3v rims.
• The only easy to clean recirculating systems are recirculating biab systems. from brausupply, colorado brewing systems,  high gravity, brewboss, and brewha.  In other words the RIMS eBIAB systems. 
• A clean brewing system is paramount to sudcess in brewing.
• Well modified grains don't generally contain very much dms precursors.   You can't create dms precursors,  they already existi in your grains (S-Methylmethionine) you can only break then down completely and avoid DMS or fail to break them down completely and create some DMS.  S-Methyl-Methionine is a complex methyl, in the boil you can break it down to DMS or past DMS.
• A 60 or 90 minute boil is not necessary,  but it often improves clarity. 
• A Rigorous boil of 15 minutes is required to avoid DMS.
• This was inspired by a guy at a LHBS who shared with us that his daughter was taking a semester off college due to family finances being tight, but he had just purchased a $5000 brewing system...  his beer... kinda sucks... his priorities definitely do.
• Tomorrow Ill be my normal happy go lucky brew enthusiast self.