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Couldn't say for sure w/o knowing the IBU target for the 60m addition, but going from a 60 to 75m and adding a few grams extra (I weigh hops in grams) would cover a good amount of your 3.7 IBU discrepency in the end. As was pointed out, 3.7 IBUs is not something you're going to notice. Just...

to expand on what kh54s10 said about your late additions making a negligible contribution to bitterness, adjusting later additions will alter your flavor and aroma profile more than bitterness. I'd leave them alone. If you don't have enough of your early additions to hit the target IBUs you...

Thanks for the welcomes. I've still got friends in breweries from whom I can easily get ingredients, mixed cultures, maybe a couple barrels, etc. I'd like to start entering some of my work in competitions later this year. It's good to be back.

not worth it. brewers friend is free. Also all of the formulas for process calculations are available free all over the interwebs and with a very basic knowledge of how to operate microsoft excel you can easily put together your own recipe building utilities

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I grew up a lot closer to Louisiana than I did Mexico. There were french and spanish speakers growing up, but unfortunately I didn't pick up much spanish.

I became aware of HBT as a professional brewer. Occasionally if I was looking for information related to brewing with an obscure ingredient HBT was the only real resource that had any information on it. If it's strange, mysterious, and can somehow be used in beer then it's likely a homebrewer...

Hello. I've brewed beer since I was very young. I grew up in on a small farm in southeast Texas where the climate catered to a lot of natural sugar sources so almost everyone had carboys of wild fruit wine growing up. There were also vineyards and wineries all around which were some of my first...

Keep blonde ale blonde. I personally love a blonde ale that captures some maltiness, but retains the lightest color possible. I would recommend avoiding any grains over 10*L. If you're base malt is 70-80% of your grain bill and you fill that remaining 20-30 with things like Rolled/Flaked Oats...

and since you added the roasted/crystal malts at sparge, plan on doing the same thing and adjust the quantities linearly with whatever you figure out for the rest of your grains.

Assuming you took an OG reading for both stouts, adjust your grain bill to target the OG for the coconut stout. No need to make it complicated. Varietal percentages in your grain bill will remain the same. All of this can easily be done on the brewers friend recipe builder w/o doing all the...

Assuming you're brewing a 5 gallon batch, 49oz cans sounds slightly excessive being that after you'd added both of them you'd be around 3/4 of a gallon of puree. Blood Orange is not an overwhelming fruit flavor compared to others, but I've had made beers with more of it than I would've liked in...