pwndabear

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terrapinj

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this beer has been a big hit with all my friends - beer snobs and BMC drinkers alike

great flavor profile, great color and really great head and lacing

terrapinj

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has some chill haze - but I just got an IC so hopefully should speed up cooling and help that problem for future batches

JonnyO

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I'm planning on brewing this one up as my next beer. My LHBS only sells the 3.3 lb cans of extract so I was doing a little tinkering on Beercalculus to make sure things wouldn't get too out of whack if I used 6.6 lbs of LME instead of just 6. Looks fine, just a little more ABV, but while I was messing around I noticed that the IBU's that were calculated, were done so using a full 5-gal. boil. When I changed it to a 2-gal. boil the IBU's dropped way down. I had one member on the site tell me that the more concentrated wort yields less alpha acid attenuation. It looks like the software used here takes the 2 gal. boil into account for the final IBU's (20.6), but for this, and future recipes, I want to make sure that I get all the hop action that I think I am. So, any advice or info concerning this issue is greatly appreciated. I'll probably post a thread on the beginners forum as well, but since this beer sounds so good, I wanted to check in here as well. Really looking forward to this beer and want to make sure I get it right. Thanks.

JonnyO

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So I answered my own question regarding the Beercalculus software. I didn't have the settings on the same IBU formula. It was on Tinseth instead of Rager. Interesting that the final IBU's for the recipe (for a 2.5 gal boil) was 20.9 with the Rager formula and about 9.7 with the Tinseth formula. Is there an overriding opinion on the correct formula to use for these things?

Schlenkerla

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Nope, just used the default in pro-mash.

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BS Nano-Brewery

Primary: Irish Red Ale, Dead Ringer IPA
2ndary: Red Zinfandel
Drinking: Irish Blonde, House Amber
Next: SNPA Clone, Cali-Common, Another Amber

|Myeast 50327|Easy Hop Oast|

JonnyO

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But the hop schedule is for a 2 gal boil, right? I know that's what the recipe says, I just want to make sure. I'm excited about this beer and want to make sure I've got it right. Thanks.

Schlenkerla

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Actually, its 2.35gal or 2 gal, 44oz. I believe that was for boil liquid loss. This is what pro mash had calculated.

If you start 2.25 is not going to hurt much.

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BS Nano-Brewery

Primary: Irish Red Ale, Dead Ringer IPA
2ndary: Red Zinfandel
Drinking: Irish Blonde, House Amber
Next: SNPA Clone, Cali-Common, Another Amber

|Myeast 50327|Easy Hop Oast|

Brent_in_Aurora

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Thank you for developing the recipe. I will be brewing it up tonight.

forcabrew

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brewing this tomorrow should i use windsor or notty yeast? recommendations?