muench1
Well-Known Member
Gluten Free Girlfriend Ale
The recipe is linked here. The new version of Hopville still has some problems- it's mixing up my mashed grain with the late boil "extract" ingredients, so the efficiency is all messed up on there. Suffice to say my efficiency was bad, something like 55%. Apparently the 100% efficiency of the D-180, sorghum and honey was enough to, on average, convince the calculator I'd hit my original target of 70%
Mash was pretty inexact; used only endogenous enzymes and held roughly in the low 150s for 90 minutes while watching TV. Some of my Fawcett Oat was kind of old as well (I had some old leftover that I used along with fresh stuff I just got).
First few days of primary were quite vigorous, but then no discernible activity after 7 days, so I racked to secondary today. It tastes and smells like beer, with nothing to indicate that it's gluten free. The hopping seems like it might be a bit off, but I was literally out of hops and just decided to brew up with the Perle and Crystal I had leftover, and hops are easy to adjust anyways. It's pretty darn cloudy still but I'll wait and see if it drops clear, but looks really aren't the point. I'm waiting a few more days to take my FG reading.
The recipe is linked here. The new version of Hopville still has some problems- it's mixing up my mashed grain with the late boil "extract" ingredients, so the efficiency is all messed up on there. Suffice to say my efficiency was bad, something like 55%. Apparently the 100% efficiency of the D-180, sorghum and honey was enough to, on average, convince the calculator I'd hit my original target of 70%
Mash was pretty inexact; used only endogenous enzymes and held roughly in the low 150s for 90 minutes while watching TV. Some of my Fawcett Oat was kind of old as well (I had some old leftover that I used along with fresh stuff I just got).
First few days of primary were quite vigorous, but then no discernible activity after 7 days, so I racked to secondary today. It tastes and smells like beer, with nothing to indicate that it's gluten free. The hopping seems like it might be a bit off, but I was literally out of hops and just decided to brew up with the Perle and Crystal I had leftover, and hops are easy to adjust anyways. It's pretty darn cloudy still but I'll wait and see if it drops clear, but looks really aren't the point. I'm waiting a few more days to take my FG reading.