Recent content by tintmaster88

New Belgium's web site says they use honey malt as the base for their mighty arrow but everyone says don't use more than 20% or it will be too much. I tried this recipe but don't taste honey at all. Don't know if I should use more or mash higher. Didn't get enough of the citrusy aroma and flavor...

You nailed that one. I have 2 thermometers both were reading 10 degrees low. I actually mashed at 165. So, now what? I can brew another batch mashed really low so it's nice and dry and mix it with the other one to meet in the middle. Anybody used enzymes to break down the unfermentables?

Beersmith says my attenuation in 58%. That's way low. I don't know if i want to bottle that. I really don't want to bottle the apa like that. It needs to be a little dryer for sure.

The fat tire clone used .5 crystal 20 and .5 crystal 40. I went to mr malty and it said 5% viability I think. So you wouldn't try to make another large starter. You think all the fermentables are gone because of the mash temp. 155 is what the recipe called for. The second beer was jamil's apa...

I brewed a fat tire clone recipe that I got from byo 3 weeks ago. I mashed at 155 and got 83% efficiency. I made a 2l starter with wlp060 the night before. The next day it wasnt doing anything so I checked the slant and saw it was expired by a month. So I went and picked up wlp001 and added it...