Recent content by abacab666

Since day 1 I've worked from the stick on thermometer on the outside of my fv, and never had a problem. Fv always sits in the same place and, with the exception of the disaster with the heat belt, temp has been consistent in that corner. There's no heaters or radiators anywhere to impact it, so...

Calling the hive mind. I'm having an issue with unpleasant esters in my brews. First time it happened I put it down to the temperature...house was a bit cold, so I put the heat belt on, evidently wasn't cold enough, so fv was too warm. This time I left the belt off, temperature has been fairly...

Not come across this before, but I suppose it's not much different to cold brew coffee? Could be worth a go...

Yes, being in the UK, i tend to work in Celsius, but can think in both when I'm working. Liking the idea of splitting the batch, might give it a go for comparison purposes [emoji481]

The IPA recipe is 8oz of each Your brew looks great, hoping mine turn out to just not be a total failure [emoji1787]

Not yet, the black IPA will be my first "big scale" attempt, so prepared for it all to go a bit Pete tong to be honest, but it's all a learning curve. My first steeping experiment is gonna be oats to add a pastry kinda flavour to a gallon of raspberry donut porter I'm trying out as part of a...

ok, simple question (i hope) I'm an extract brewer, due to space more than anything else, but have recently been sent a recipe for a black IPA which involves steeping midnight Wheat and caramel malt at 65degrees for 25 minutes to impart the colour. question is...i've got some grain left over...

if anything it'll be in the fv, as it's a kit with no boil. what i'm looking for is a way of trying different flavor variations using the same base, hence my theory of adding to different carboys of lower volumes than the base kit - don't mid wasting a gallon if a particular flavour bombs, but...

Morning brew gurus Looking through these forums there seems to be a massive wealth of knowledge, sometime for me to tap into that methinks I'm relatively new to the brew game - last 6 months - mostly extract kits, although I've had a go at a couple of the Brooklyn brew shop grain kits for a...

Good point. Picked that recipe cos it's single malt... Start simple then work up to steeping was my theory

Maximise? As in more grain, less extract? Sorry to sound thick, but I'm still on the extract kit end of the brewing hobby [emoji13]

Ah right. So mash part (half?) of the grain, and substitute the rest for extract?

Not familiar with that process..?

Cheers fella. So shorter boil, or add the DME in batches?

Ok, so I know that it's possible to convert an all grain recipe to extract by replacing the main grain with either LME or DME, but is it really that straight forward? Example. I'm a bit partial to the brewdog beers, and have a copy of the recipe book from their website. The original punk IPA...