MTate37 said:
Took a gravity sample and I'm at 1.011. Holy cow this tastes good...really nice floral notes. If the sample is any indication this just might be my first great beer.
Did you follow the recipe for the hops? I was thinking of delaying the 20 minute addition to 15 minutes? What was your OG?
MTate37 said:
This was my first BIAB experience and I really liked the process since I don't have a complete all-grain setup. The beer tastes incredible. The hop profile is very floral, which is very different from what I typically drink. It has nice body, but I may have mashed a little too high. Unfortunately every bottle I've had so far is WAY underdcarbed. I added the priming sugar after moving to the bottling bucket so my first thought is that I didn't mix well enough, but it seems if that was the case I would have inconsistently carbed bottles and so far they are all at the same level of not carbed. I moved the beer to another room in my house that is a couple of degrees warmer so we'll see what happened. Despite the undercarbed beer, I will definitely be brewing this again. I may even double the batch next time since it took a while to make.
About how long did your brew take? I am going to be doing this same recipe this week. My first BIAB as well!
Ogri said:
I'm liking your description of how it tastes. Any chance of posting up the recipe?? just got a 45lb bag of Pilsener malt and looking at a few different ways to use it up. What were the ambient temps of the environment you had it carb-ing/conditioning originally?
Here is the recipe for ya, they say OG should be 1.060 but they must assume about 65% efficiency to get that. From what I have read most BIAB brewers get at least 70% if not better. Since I have yet to do any BIAB I can't really say what my efficiency will be. I plugged this in from the instructions NB provides into iBrewmaster. They also have a liquid yeast suggestion: Wyeast #3942
De Belge Farmhouse IPA (NB BIAB 3gal Kit)
Style: American IPA OG: 1.066
Type: All Grain FG: 1.020
Rating: 0.0 ABV: 6.03 %
Calories: 218 IBU's: 82.33
Efficiency: 70 % Boil Size: 4.64 Gal
Color: 4.9 SRM Batch Size: 3.00 Gal
Preboil OG: 1.046 Boil Time: 60 minutes
Fermentation Steps
Name Days / Temp
Primary 7 days @ 68.0°F
Bottle/Keg 14 days @ 77.0°F
Grains & Adjuncts
Amount Percentage Name Time Gravity
8.00 lbs 94.12 % Pilsner (2 Row) Bel 90 mins 1.036
0.50 lbs 5.88 % Wheat, Torrified 90 mins 1.036
Hops
Amount IBU's Name Time AA %
1.00 ozs 47.67 Brewers Gold 60 mins 8.00
2.00 ozs 34.66 Hallertauer 20 mins 4.80
Yeasts
Amount Name Laboratory / ID
1.0 pkg Safbrew T-58 Fermentis T-58
Additions
(none)
Mash Profile
BIAB No Sparge 90 min @ 149.0°F
Add 22.00 qt water @ 156.6°F
Mashout 10 min @ 168.0°F
Heat to 168.0°F over 2 mins
Carbonation
Amount Type Beer Temp CO2 Vols
1.71 oz Table Sugar - Bottle Carbonation 75.0°F 1.90
Notes
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