Making a caribou slobber extract kit w/ specialty grains from northern brewer. I Read the directions and am wanting to increase gravity in hopes to increase to a rough 6%-7% beer. How would I accomplish this, or is there even a way.
third batch, how should I brew it?
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You could always add some additional DME, if you do that though I would also correspondingly adjust your hops upward to maintain your BU/GU ratio.
Ok so I went to brewtoad and input the recipe exactly how northernbrewer says to then I proceeded to adjust accordingly by adding 4 more lbs of fermentable sugars bringing OG to 1.083 and FG to 1.026. Now I also adjusted my hops adding 1 more oz. of my 45 min. hops. Bringing IBU to 41. End result, 7.5% ABV and .5 BU/GU however its definitely not a traditional brown ale. Any tips or suggestions, should I brew it?
Original is 5.5% abv and an IBU of 38. I increased IBU to 41 and abv to 7.5% by adding 1 lbs LME and 3 lbs DME. What do you think.
flars
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What numbers would Brewtoad calculate if you brewed the CS as 4 gallons?
chickypad
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I think it's going to seem very sweet. You essentially haven't changed the IBU's and are adding over a third more extract to the beer. If you're going forward with the changes I would at least swap out some of that extract for a little sugar to bring the FG down. Realize that will raise the ABV even more so you may want to compensate. It's definitely a different beer now.
Edit: actually it's more like 50% additional extract given you're using more DME
so do you think i should ad a 30 minute hop addition to try and increase IBU? or should i change the 60 minute hop addition to a higher AAU hop to balance it out?
i did add 1 more oz. of my 45 min hops which is liberty hops.
ok for some reason i am not getting a difference if i lower it to 4 gal. OG is 1.083 FG is 1.026 with IBU still sitting at 41, SRM is 12 which i like, not to dark to light. and ABV is still at 7%-7.5%
my expectations are to have a "slightly" higher ABV than normal CS. without having to make it to malty. im a fan of higher IBU.
chickypad
lupulin shift victim
I haven't make the CS recipe but I have brewed styles like it and I've had the commercial version. I agree it's not either sweet or very malty IMO. The BU:GU ratio on the recipe as written is .73. If you want a beer more like the original I would try to aim for something like 1.070, keep the BU:GU ratio the same so about 51 IBU, and then try to get it to finish lower like 1.015 or 1.016 giving you about 7.1-7.2% ABV. I don't think you'll get there with that recipe without some simple sugar. Maybe something like adding 1 lb light DME, 1 lb cane sugar, and bumping up one of the bittering additions to hit about 50-52 IBU. Also if using liquid yeast I would be sure to pitch the proper amount with a starter and oxygenate your wort.
GASoline71
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You'll also need to make a yeast starter... or pitch at least 2 packs of yeast.
Gary
Gary
Thanks for the tips everyone I will be sure to post the results.
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