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Denny's Favorite Scottish Ale Nottingham US-05

I was going to be brewing a black IPA and an IIPA back to back, so I wanted to get some extra value and use an entire pound of hops across both recipes. Well, I've learned the hard way - that's just doing it wrong. I used the hop schedule posted earlier in the thread: All hop...

This beer did not turn out well.

Thanks for the advice bobbrews!

Specialty grains + other non 2-row mashables include: 1 # white wheat 1/2 # aromatic 1/2 # carapils 1/2 # honey malt 1/2 # caramel 60 For base grain / DME ratio, was thinking of going with: 4 # Rahr 2-row 8 # Pilsen DME

Ok, hops schedule is planned as follows (I'm certainly open to suggestions for changes to this, however). All hop additions are Centennial: 4 oz @ 60 mins 2 oz @ 10 mins 1 oz @ 5 mins 1 oz @ flameout 4 oz dry hop - secondary

I've got the exact recipe at home, and I'm at work. But I can tell you that the hop schedule is largely 10 minutes left in the boil and beyond, including a dry hop addition. Something like 4 oz. bittering, 4 oz flavoring, and 4 oz dry hop.

Will 1.080 be good enough for a balanced taste? Or should I go closer to 1.100?

I hadn't even considered what boiling the "tea" might do. I was just trying to maximize my base grain / DME ratio. That's interesting. I think I might start doing that too.

Well, it varies from recipe to recipe. Sometimes as little as a pound, sometimes as much as 3. Just trying to use as little DME as possible to achieve better FG.

Do you sparge? I've been doing a max of 6.5 lbs of grain (including specialty grains to this point), and using a 1.00 to 1.33 qts/lb of both mash and sparge water. With a 5.5 gallon kettle, this is pushing the limits sometimes.

That's what I've been doing thus far. But I have a limited mashing capacity as a partial mash brewer because my kettle is only 5.5 gallons. So I wasn't asking in an absolute way whether it was ok to separate, I was asking because separating will allow me to mash more [edit: base grain] and use...

I use a BIAB system. Have a 5 gallon cooler as a mash tun, and only a 5.5 gallon kettle. Usually can only mash/sparge about 6 or 7 lbs. of grain without overfilling the kettle. My question is, in order to mash more base grains (and adjuncts for some recipes), can I leave out any...

My 2nd kit. I've since moved on to making up my own recipes, but this was the best pre-assembled kit I ever did.

Yeast only need the O2 to reproduce, correct? If so, wouldn't it stand to reason that you still just need to pitch at a higher rate? Honest questions...I am looking for some education like the OP.