Good to see such a nice, simple grain bill with the candi syrups. I am going to try the D90 in my recipe. Also nice to see you had a decent tasting beer without all of the ramping up of temps. Will try to remember to report back.
Here is my final recipe I brewed. It turned out really good! Probably one of my better "experimental beers" The beer was good at 4 months but was better at 6. There was a bitterness that we attributed to the wintergreen but who knows exactly where it came from. The good thing is it went away. It...
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here is my attempt at a sweet potato beer. Couldn't find pumpkin at the time due to some shortage so swapped out for some sweet potato.
I read through half the thread. I have one buring question my infantile mind can not figure out:
What does the PID do? Does it turn off the element when the mash in temp is hit? Does it turn on the element when the temp gets too low during recirculation?
One more thing: the BEST beer I ever made, like the one that I was going to start a brewery with if I could, I used bottle water for. Sorry can't offer more of the chemistry side of things.
I have been having the same problem too on and off. My last beer was good for about 3-4 months or so and at that point it slowly started turning into a gusher. I came across a couple beers that I had for about 2 years and those gushed immediately but I do have a have a belgian golgen strong ale...
4.8% ABV according to http://www.rooftopbrew.net/abv_calculator.php
Adding rum won't change your FG because you didn't add fermentables (i.e.-sugars) you added alcohol, basically water. How much your ABV was bumped up by 16oz of rum I don't know. But if you said your beer is around 5% ABV you'd...
one8tvw- is the above recipe still tasting good. gearing up to do a rootbeer beer here pretty soon and would like to use your recipe as a strong backbone to mine. Thanks!
what is your new recipe? Depending on how much you changed the grain bill (i.e. increased the unfermentables) you may only get to 1.032 anyway. Think about it. The original recipe is 1.086 to 1.023. You went up 9 gravity points for your OG from the original recipe and now you are nine points...
1 tablespoon is fine for my tastebuds but I have seen up to 3 tablespoons and as little as 1 teaspoon. One of those 'take good notes before and after' to dial in your recipe kind of thing. But starting low never hurt anyone.
you could always split up the specialty grains. Like use .5 lbs for the whole mash and maybe throw in the other .5lbs towards the end just to get the color out.