I just read an article about adjusting your recipes for judging. I personally have never brewed the same beer twice but I have only been brewing for a year and a half. I wanted to know some processes or best practices for refining a recipe that you enjoyed. I would like to continue to brew new batches not yet tried but I also would love to learn and get your ideas on how to really make a great beer, a "WOW" beer.
I know that fermentation control and all that, are key and I am not talking about that portion of the brewing; more, I am leaning towards the adjustment of a recipe to make it better. Say you get a beer, enter it in a comp and the write up says, " doesn't have the roastiness I expected with this style". It is still a great beer but I want to tweek it till it is where it should be.
Do you boil 1 gallon batches and change it up till you get it where you want it? Do you do full 5 gal. boils? Do you change the beer already bottle/kegged? I would love to hear some thoughts & ideas on this process.
I know that fermentation control and all that, are key and I am not talking about that portion of the brewing; more, I am leaning towards the adjustment of a recipe to make it better. Say you get a beer, enter it in a comp and the write up says, " doesn't have the roastiness I expected with this style". It is still a great beer but I want to tweek it till it is where it should be.
Do you boil 1 gallon batches and change it up till you get it where you want it? Do you do full 5 gal. boils? Do you change the beer already bottle/kegged? I would love to hear some thoughts & ideas on this process.