I'm curious if anyone has ever found a smash recipe that wasn't good. Assuming you are using base malt and not doing something like a 100% crystal 60 grist.
Awesome, I've been wanting to do something like this but haven't gotten around to it yet. Interested to see how it comes out for you. Maybe I'll mix up some starter wort and try it this week.
I buy my jugs because I don't have a whole foods close to me. They about $6 a piece so it's not the best deal but not awful either. I don't always secondary though.
Hey guys, its been a while since Ive been here. Just wrote this up on my blog and thought you guys would like the read. I'll make it back here more often from now on too, life just gets in the way of internet forums sometimes...
I have beersmith set up to do a no sparge biab, so my numbers will be a little off from what you are wanting, but you'll get the idea.
3# of grain in the mash with 7.5 qts of water, you will need a mash tun volume of 2.14 gallons. (if you do less water than that, then less volume and just...
Buy a gallon of apple juice, add some kind of sugar if you want it stronger than 4% (table sugar, brown sugar, molasses, honey, agave nectar, maple syrup, etc.) add yeast and some nutrients and wait. Backsweeten it if you like it sweeter.
Feels like a while since I've had a chance to sit down and post something here. Been keeping fermenters full though, just bottled two single hops ipas using some of the exp hops from farmhouse, have an arrogant bastard inspired beer ready to bottle and put together a smoked porter, rebrew of my...
I have a small little list of recipes I've done here http://www.brewtoad.com/brewers/1248/recipes There are a couple 5 gal batches there from work, but most are 1 gallon.
The other issue with that is for the person at the homebrew store, if someone comes in with a % grist recipe I either have to pull out some paper and figure it out or pull up a recipe calculator. 90% of the time I am happy to do it, but when there are 3 other people that need help it slows...
There are a bunch scattered through this thread, there is some on my blog below and my brewtoad. But mostly, just divide a 5 gallon recipe by 5 and its the same thing. The ones I have I optimized for 1 gallon, so there isn't 6.53oz of some malt, I just round them out and make the recipes from...
Teaching a brewing class today at a library, its fun watching peoples expressions as they walk by and I'm heating up wort in the middle of the childrens section.
If you are boiling down to 3 then add 2, you have 5, not 5.5. But that should make your gravity higher, not lower.
Extract or all grain? compensating for temperature? mixing well?