My girlfriend loves stouts and has requested I brew a chocolate berry stout of some kind. Thought why not! Here's the grain bill
8 # pale 2 row
1.5# pale chocolate malt
1# flaked oats
4 oz roasted barley
8 oz chocolate malt
1# lactose
Yeast: wlp004
mash at 158
Does this look...
Thanks a ton man! That was a great calculator and it did bring me up to speed. So i hope that i just got done brewing my first successful batch with my own water chemistry. Once again homebrewtalk has come through for me in my time of need.
So I went to my local hombrew shop and asked about using salts with ro water instead of preboiling and dilluting my tap water with ro water. i dont know my waters profile though but know its extremely hard. I live in the Phoenix valley as well. He sold me burton water salts saying "...
Thanks guys, good to know thats about right. Felt like what everyone else was talking about was so much less. Wasn't sure about my setup. I am using a 40 qt pot so sounds like I've been doing it right. Thanks again, I can always count on you guys!
So i started using Beersmith recently and am constantly struggling with the amount of water to use in mashing and sparging. Im using a 10 gallon home depot round cooler and a bazooka tube. Not sure if lauter tun deadspace is negligable because the grains are resting on the bottom. Also does...
K so I did stir really well because of uneven temp I realized from my first mash I did. So I side take care to stir well then but I did only stir the mash twice during the 60 min rest could that effect it?
Also not exactly sure on crush my local store set it for me since I'm new to AG but when I ran it through the mill the Guy there said it was a pretty standard setting because I did happen to ask. Don't know if that even helps.
Can do.
Dough in 3.5 gallons @167
Mashout 1gal @212 (btw not quite enough)
1 batch sparge of 4 gallons
Every time I added water gave 10 min rest before vorlauf, then I only had to add about half gallon to the sort to reached 5.5 gallons. I thought that that didn't matter though because it...
So I've done 3 all grain batches and I got the volume wrong on the first so I can't compare to the last 2. I just brewed a red ale and this was my grain bill:
7lbs 2 row pale domestic
2 lbs white wheat
1 lb caramunich
.5 lb Munich
This is the problem...60 min mash, checked for...
Well hey if its any consolation I. Eventually brewed a simple wheat base beer.
6lbs. Wheat malt extract
1oz hallertau. (Bittering)60 mins
Nottingham dry yeast
4 oz peach extract (added to secondary for 10 days)
5 gal batch
This one came out great and we actually (I know I shouldn't say it)...
Thanks guys appreciate the input looks like ill have to find a good substitute or do a little more research on this one. I've got "who's in the garden grand cru" in primary right now so that will have to do for now. Thanks again!
After much thought and outside influence, I've decided to try and make a peach ale as my next extract batch, Im looking for one that would come pretty close to Four Peaks Peach ale frankly because of several requests. Anybody out there have any recipes that would be close or is there an actual...