Recent content by Starchild

I don't have a clue what I did wrong... Everything went well... I did a Munich smash: 2.7kg about 7 liters water at about 152F and my sparge water was about 10 liter at about 170F It was the first time I didn't screw up the temps and then I got an efficiency of 48% What could have been...

I don't have a refractometer so I'll just do the latter, thanks for the info.

Thanks for the reply, yeah think to know when to add the hops will probably only come with experience! And about the Fuggles...have never brewed with them, the majority of recipes are just insist it has to be a uk hop and fuggles is the way to go!! so I will know by the end of this if I'm a...

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thanks...and if I do a mash efficiency test I need to take into account the temp right? Which efficiency to I compare to my presumed/expected efficiency?

Quick question... When do I check my efficiency? Before or after the boil? And how do I know if all the starch has been converted?

O sorry didn't even think of that thanks. How does the recipe look? Will it yield an ok beer? Should I change some things? One other thing how do you work out you hop profile, I kind of just grabbed it out of the air... how do you decide what % of the hops to put in on 60min and rather putting...

Is that the whole formula? 1.044 x 0.32 = 0.334...what am I missing?

So I'm ready to brew this weekend and would love some input on my recipe I'm using metric so please bear with me... I decided on an OG of 1.044 (don't really know why) IBU of 35 (My IBU/OG ratio is 7.9) L should be 8 but my predicted color is about 5.5L, I cant really correct it because it's...

So is AG boiling time only dependent on ingredients? what will happen to a 1 hour recipe if I boil it for 2 hours?

Hi everyone I am in need of some help again! Probably a simple question but non the less one I can't seem to figure out... How do you determine your boil time? most recipes calls for about an hour but still how do you determine that? O yeah and is there any way of predicting final...

Thanx a lot everybody I will be brewing my smash bitter next weekend.

That's a very cool chart. But is it IBU/OG, or IBU/(OG-FG)?

Thanx for all the input. I want to see if I can stick with with a pen, paper and a calculator haha. But if it gets o tricky I'll definitely check out beersmith's calculators. Think I'm going to try and make a smash bitter...if that's even possible.

So its all based on style guidelines? And with smash brews? What do you base it on?