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   1. Water added to ferm calculations

      by rickoles, 7 years ago in BIABrewer Old Hands

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      Hi everyone
      
      I've been using BIABacus successfully for a few years now. I've recently been wanting to get more out of my brew days however space and equipement limitations have made it difficult. A Brulosophy experiment looking at full vs partial boil volumes and adding water the to the fermenter prompted me to try brewing a concerntrated wort and splitting it into two beers.
      
      I'm attempting to use BIABacus to do this however when I enter something in section W, water added to fermentor, it...

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      Wow thanks Mally.
      
      I checked this just now by changing the gravity of ambient wort of the full mash to match the partial mash (prior to adding water) and the hop amounts were exactly the same. I never considered hop utilisation reduces the thicker the wort gets... I guess I should've actually studied the tinseth formular...
      
      Based on this I'm considering adding the full amount, or atleast part of the water prior to boil to reduce the amount of hops I'll need so the recipe will be more efficient.
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      rickoles
      7 years ago
   2. Brewdog cook book

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      by rickoles, 10 years ago in BIAB Recipes

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      Brewdog has released a PDF with 215 of their own beer recipes... This is amazing and I hope we see other breweries doing the same thing. See the link below:
      
      Have a good weekend :)

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      FYI the 2017 version has been released by the scots :D
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      caero
      9 years ago
   3. Imperial Stout

      by rickoles, 10 years ago in Creating Your Own Recipes

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      Hi everyone
      
      I'm planning on making an imperial stout this weekend and I need you to give me some input on my recipe :) - details below.
      
      This recipe has been in the works for a month or two. I've based it off information supplied in...
      
      Basically I want to layer my grains for complexity, have a high IBU for balance and hop stand or dry hop for added flavour without being too hop forward. I was thinking Chinook and Columbus although I've seen people also use Cascade. I'm also wondering...

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      Hi PP, thanks :)
      
      It was the stock standard tube you're right. I ended up averaging the two reading to 1.104 (a few points error on a beer this big can't hurt right?).
      
      I never even thought of pics... Maybe in a few weeks when I brew my English barleywine with the same gravity.
      
      It's bubbling away nicely now. I have a good feeling it will turn out well.
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      rickoles
      10 years ago
   4. Your 5 favourite American hops

      by rickoles, 10 years ago in Hops

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      Hi everyone
      
      I love hops! I'm going to be brewing some big hoppy beers in the next few weeks and want a great American hop line up. I don't know all the diiferent hops that well so was wanting to know what your 5 favourite American hops are in decending order.

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      Hey Primavera,
      
      If you think you need to dry hop...which one do you prefer the fragrance of the most? Likely any of them would work... If it's me, I'd probably go Centennial. But the others have good names too and if I had them here to smell and ponder, might make a different decision.
      
      I've never dry hopped my homebrew before, and don't brew IPAs (but sometimes a fairly hoppy APA). That's my two cents, and best of luck to you!
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      Scott
      10 years ago
   5. First ever recipe!

      by rickoles, 10 years ago in Creating Your Own Recipes

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      Hi all
      
      I've brewed about 6 beers now and read a few books so I think I'm ready to create my own recipe. I have a bunch of ingredients I want to use up so decided to create a kitchen sink beer.
      
      Can you please have a look over and let me know what you think? I'm mainly concerned I don't have enough base malt to other malts. I don't know if this will effect the amount of sugars I will get.
      
      The top 3 grains are what I have laying around and wish to use up. I decided to go with Pale Malt and...

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      Rickoles - Have a read through this thread as well here .
      
      Stick with it though as it starts out as a squeeze question but later on explains a lot about FVM vs Sparge.
      I would definitely concentrate on #13, there may be some things there that make sense?
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      mally
      10 years ago
   6. Strange Brett problem

      by rickoles, 10 years ago in Fermentation (Wort to Still Beer)

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      Hi everyone
      
      I'm relatively new to brewing. I started about 2 months ago and have had 5 brew days already. I'm loving it. I jumped straight into BIAB and was eager to brew a wide variety of beer. Although in hind sight I was pretty overzealous...
      
      The problem I have is I brewed up a basic IPA 5 days ago with an OG of 1.060 but the Wyeast 5526 Brett I used isn't starting. The weird thing is I took a sample two days ago to get a hydrometer reading and left the sample next to the fermenter to...

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      Thanks for the replies!
      
      The wort did ferment a day after cranking up the temperature and it stopped at 1.02. I've dry hopped it and am hoping to get it out of the fermenter this week to make room for something new. Currently it has a citrus like sour taste to it. My understanding is it needs time to develop. I don't have any experience with infection but it seems fine to me. I'm going to see what happens.
      
      Thughes - It looks like I'm way out of my depth! I was considering harvesting this and...
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      rickoles
      10 years ago

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