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Stopped by to give kudos for a great recipe. Was a big hit at my superbowl party.
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brewed yesterday. .5oz of centennial at 60 min then a pound of fresh cascade in the last 20 mins
just wrapped up my first All Grain brew using the original recipe in the first post. I followed it to a T but it took way longer than expected. I pitched my yeast and put it away for the fermentation process to begin when I realized I forgot to measure the original gravity. I sucked out a sample to test (and made a mess in the process) and it only measured in at 1.040. The falls short of the 1.051 that I was expecting.
What would have caused it to be so much lower? The only issue I had was getting the boil going took longer than expected as I had to use my stove due to a snowstorm outside and not feeling like freezing my ass off. Once the boil got going It went for the full 60 minutes. I started with 6.5 gal of wort and ended with 5.25.
Lots of fun making it, but it's 1:30am on a Sunday and I have to get up in 5 hours to head to work. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Specific gravity after a week is 1.018. With such a low efficiency I'm not sure how it will turn out. I am estimating the ABV will be sub 3%. These numbers are not giving me a positive feel. I'll feed it to a bunch of my wife's friends and see if they comment on it's lack of kick or possibly flavor. It tasted pretty good but then again I can't drink 20 beers to get any effect from it. I'll have to kick off another batch maybe this weekend and see if I can get better numbers.
I want to do the extract version but I can't find the munich LME easily/inexpensively...
What can I use instead to mimic the original recipe?
Thanks!!
The Vienna in the all grain version of this recipe goes a long way into making this ale what it is. I would imagine that a Munich malt extract gets pretty close.
I would think the next closest thing would be an Amber extract.
Count me in as another first timer picking this as a first brew.
I know the mashing temperature ....
....Is it worth drinking the beer or is it going to be like a watered down coors light?
Do you have your equipment profile set up yet?
Importing the file w/ someone else's profile & not adjusting accordingly won't benefit you too much.
Yes, you can scale a recipe in BeerSmith. But, that is based on using your equipment profile.
BS has an easy to understand online tutorial for setting up your profile & other program features.
I'd urge you to go through that process & then you can add/import a recipe and then scale it to your setup.
If you can get that done & pm me your email I'll send you my version of the recipe in BS format.
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