Recent content by Chenzo

Germelli, Thanks for the suggestion, I will do that. Yooper, maybe it is, this is my first time putting one together myself. I wanted to keep the IBUs below 40, and I wanted lots of hop flavor, which is why I made it like I did. But from your comment and AZ_IPA's comment, I have modified it to...

Thanks for the replies. I think I might do a mini-mash with the specialty grains then (0.5 lbs each flaked wheat, munich, crystal 40L) and adjust my LME accordingly to reach target gravity. I will post my final recipe when I brew, and of course will post results in 5 weeks.

This is my first time making my own recipe. I'm going to be serving this to a lot of people, so I'm going for something that is pretty drinkable. I want a bittering/gravity ratio to be 0.7 - 0.8, and I want a light, clean tasting pale ale with lots of hop aromas, like a dry-hopped Sierra Nevada...

Thanks for the replies. I'm definitely going to try to add more hops; I'm not sure I want a non-bitter Belgian. I'm a hop head as is. The "hot French Randall" method described in rocketman's post definitely looks interesting. The problem is the HFR method adds hop aroma more than bitterness...

We just brewed a Belgian Strong Dark ale recipe. It calls for Magnum hops with 15.4% Apha Acid @ 1/2 an ounce, or 7.7 AAUs... Our beer store was out of Magnum hops, so we bought Golding instead at 5% AA, and even wrote a note on the recipe to use 3 times as much to get up to 7.7 AAUs. You can...