steber

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And as usual, size matters...

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h22lude

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Brewing this tomorrow. Sorry if this has been covered. I tried reading through and search but couldn't find what I wanted.

My brews have been coming out with a weird almost apple taste to it. I want to eliminate my water so I am going to use RO water. What kind of salts should I use? Using EZ spreadsheet, if I do 5.5 grams of CaCl2 I will get 50 ppm of Ca in my boil kettle. I also added 2 ounces of acid malt to bring the pH to 5.54. Does this sound ok?

I also want to try using sugar to carb instead of CO2. Beersmith says almost 2 ounces when I enter it all manually but the recipe I downloaded using Yooper's link it says to use 4 ounces. Which one should I use?

Edit: Went to my LHBS to get the ingredients. He tasted my Irish Red and agreed that it is most likely my water. He recommend I try spring water with some gypsum in it. I will be doing that with this batch to see how it comes out.

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homebrewhaha

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Acetaldehyde is the classic "green apple" off-flavor. Does it taste like that? If so I'd consider the health of your yeast.

Are you using liquid yeast? Are you making a starter?
What's your source and is there any opportunity for degradation during shipping or at the LHBS?
Are you brewing any big beers (high OG)?

maltoftheearth

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Brewed this today but didn't have the amber malt on hand and only wanted a little additional color so I added .4oz of debittered black patent malt. I love the color, kind of mahogany, but that was way too much of the black malt. Probably about .1oz or .2oz would have done the trick.

Still, it smelled fantastic. I mashed low (151F) and had slightly more than 5 gallons so my efficiency was hurt (1.054) but it won't matter if it tastes great. I have a feeling the Pacman yeast I got is going to take this thing down close to 1.0.

Thanks for a great recipe!

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h22lude

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I don't want to hijack this thread but I don't think it is acetaldehyde. I believe it is my tap water. My process is pretty good. I have good cleaning and sanitation. Yeast starter with liquid. Yeast is always stored cold and fresh.

I'm going to try spring water with a little gypsum with this recipe to see how it turns out.

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RoadKing

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Make sure your fermenters are clean. It could be an infection. Give 'em a good dose of bleach.

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h22lude

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It could be but I don't think it is. I'm getting it from all of my buckets and I clean them well. Soak in Oxiclean and sanitize well before use.

I brewed this yesterday and so far I think this was the best AG batch yet.

I hit pre boil gravity to within a few points. I collected the exact amount of wort from my mash tun as I wanted. I did boil off a little more than I thought so I had to top off with 3/4 gallon of boiled water but when I did that my OG was 1.074. I did use 14 pounds of 2 row because my efficiency has been low. We did 3 batches yesterday so I let it sit outside to cool down to pitching temp. I pitched US-05 when I got home. Right now my basement is kind of cold so it is at 57. I'm hoping it goes up during the day. If not I might need to go buy a heater of some kind for my fridge.

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Parkje04

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Brewed the extract version of this recipe last night. I think everything went ok, though I am a novice (third batch ever) so I don't really know quite what to look for. OG was 1.062, and fermentation started after about 18 hours.

Two weird things that didn't happen with my 2 other brews. First - the wort was clear, but when I mixed it, it threw up all kind of sediment that settled back down in a matter of seconds. Not sure if this was because of the amount of hops I used, or maybe the break was different, but it certainly seemed different than the other ipa I brewed, which was a kit from my LHBS. The other weird thing that I didn't experience with my other brews was I tried to use a paint strainer bag to filter out the hops. I clipped the bag to the primary, and poured the cooled wort into the bag. I poured about half the wort into the bag, and the bag got so heavy that it ripped the clips off the side of the bucket. I held the bag up and it had about 5 pounds of sediment in it that just wasn't draining. I had to dump the bag into the primary, sediment and all, which I know won't really be a big issue since I plan on using a secondary anyway. But I thought it was odd that the bag didn't filter out the hops and instead clogged. Should I have poured the top-off water into the primary BEFORE I poured the wort in? Would that have diluted it, and thus allowed the paint strainer to do its job and not clog?

Did I ruin the thing?? Sorry if this is off-topic, but I figured since I brewed this beer it would be a good place to go for either 1) peace of mind, or 2) condolences.

Yooper

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It sounds ok! The paint strainers can clog with pellet hop debris, so don't worry about that. It happens to me too.

I don't use a secondary anymore, but if you do that's fine.

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