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The citric acid will make the copper bright and shinny by stripping off any patina that's been happening but unless it's sealed with something the oxidation will just start up again.

1.060 for 2lbs per gal of water sounds about right, you could increase the grain lbs per gal to up your specific gravity. Since I'm only running 5-10 gal batches I'll take it up to 3-3.5 lbs per gal of water without a issue, otherwise it feels like a lot of effort for only a little bit of reward. 19...

It sounds pretty good fairly close to Shineoncrazydiamond's Easy large batch mashing post. I agree grinding will improve yield, you could also up your lbs of grain to gal of water to increase the yield with minimal effort and cost, because they is something so nice about just opening a bag straight ...

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Hello all, I've been lurking around the forms for about 6 months or so and decided I should finally register and say hi :lol: I got into distilling with the Pico Still which worked okay with a few modifications, I have since upgraded to a 8 gallon milk can style still. I'm interested in all kinds of...