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Hi there, I'm a big fan of Indian cuisine and am interested in developing a recipe with some ingredients commonly used in Indian cooking. I wanted to give it a subtle hint of heat and spice, and was originally thinking of starting with a blonde ale base recipe which I have brewed many times...

Hi, I've been doing some reading up on making invert sugar. My plan is to use turbinado sugar and a tartaric acid catalyst. What I haven't been able to find a clear answer on is how much tartaric to use. I'll be using 1 lb. of turbinado. Does anyone have any general guidelines on sugar to...

I have a question regarding batch sparge grain bills, as discussed in Chapter 17 of Palmer. As I understand it, the calculations provided introduce a scale-up factor for the grain bill in order to compensate for lost efficiency during the batch sparge, relative to the higher efficiency one...

Hello, I have a question regarding OG measurements. I just boiled an IPA recipe which, according to my calculations, should yield an OG of 1.071. My actual hydrometer measurement came out to 1.090 (twice). Wort temperature was ~75F, so temp correction should be pretty small. My question...

Hello, I have a question regarding the use of specialty grains for extract brews. Particularly, how do you calculate OG and color contributions for specialty grains? I've seen some other threads suggesting that specialty grains do not contribute to the OG, but this is incorrect since they...