Stand
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Hmmmm. So I bought a grain mill and started crushing my own grains yesterday. I ran all my numbers for a recipe I've made before with a target OG of 1.054
Apparently my finer crush has made a big difference because it increased efficiency by 9% giving me a 1.062 OG!
This is great! Except now my beer is going to be 6.7% Alcohol when it finishes instead of 5.9 and I'm concerned the bitterness isn't going to be where it needs to be (currently 40.7 IBU).
I was thinking I might calculate a volume increase that would give me the correct profile, boiling that volume with hops at a schedule that would extract the correct IBUs, and adding them. ANyone ever done this?
Anybody got advice? When to add? If I should?
Thanks,
Apparently my finer crush has made a big difference because it increased efficiency by 9% giving me a 1.062 OG!
This is great! Except now my beer is going to be 6.7% Alcohol when it finishes instead of 5.9 and I'm concerned the bitterness isn't going to be where it needs to be (currently 40.7 IBU).
I was thinking I might calculate a volume increase that would give me the correct profile, boiling that volume with hops at a schedule that would extract the correct IBUs, and adding them. ANyone ever done this?
Anybody got advice? When to add? If I should?
Thanks,