slayer021175666
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Hello everyone.
I started buying 2 row malt from a local farmer/ maltster (instead of the local home brew shop because it's not really local. 25 MI away!) and now, my numbers are low. It was at about 1.065 and now, it's at 1.055. His malt must have a little less extractable sugar in it, I figure. But, what I'm trying to do is get my beer back up to the alcohol level and flavor that I liked it at. That is another problem is, it's not as malty as it used to be. I tried mashing at a higher temp and that didn't help. My recipe has 10 lb total grain in it and 6.5 lb of that is the two row. To get my numbers from 1.055 up to 1.065, how much more of the two row should I add? And, if anybody knows of one, I was wondering if there's a calculation or formula for this. I will definitely take anybody's advice or rough figures or whatever that may help though as well. At this point all I'm thinking is, bump it up by 1 lb and see what happens but, that could take a recipe after recipe to figure out just by bumping it up here and there. I like to hit the number the first or second brew if that's possible.. This was for a five gallon recipe.
Thank you everyone. Cheers!
I started buying 2 row malt from a local farmer/ maltster (instead of the local home brew shop because it's not really local. 25 MI away!) and now, my numbers are low. It was at about 1.065 and now, it's at 1.055. His malt must have a little less extractable sugar in it, I figure. But, what I'm trying to do is get my beer back up to the alcohol level and flavor that I liked it at. That is another problem is, it's not as malty as it used to be. I tried mashing at a higher temp and that didn't help. My recipe has 10 lb total grain in it and 6.5 lb of that is the two row. To get my numbers from 1.055 up to 1.065, how much more of the two row should I add? And, if anybody knows of one, I was wondering if there's a calculation or formula for this. I will definitely take anybody's advice or rough figures or whatever that may help though as well. At this point all I'm thinking is, bump it up by 1 lb and see what happens but, that could take a recipe after recipe to figure out just by bumping it up here and there. I like to hit the number the first or second brew if that's possible.. This was for a five gallon recipe.
Thank you everyone. Cheers!