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Range of 4.7-8.2%, Variety of styles: Pale Ale's, Wit's, IPA's, Porter, Stout.

I think it does it's work while in the boil. You can usually see the clumping already taking place during wort chilling. That's what I've observed.

Founder's Canadian Breakfast Stout (May she rest in Peace) Six point's Bengali Tiger IPA Northampton Brewery's Snow Day IPA (Crisp super hoppy nugget/Centennial IPA) Northampton Brewery's Blue Boots IPA Smuttynose Robust Porter

I did a brew day with my Grandfather. I think he really enjoyed himself. In all these years he's never brewed beer. We did a 3 Gal. AG Belgian Wit. He's a fan of Belgian's and my Grandmother loves a big citrusy IPA.

There are some free beer calculators to use to build recipes and see there IBU's and the ABV etc. Which lets you play and make recipes. You can sign up for free and save your recipes and build them to the specs of some of your favorite styles. If you define the style for the recipe wit will...

Welcome! The more Home Brewer's in MA the better. Cheers :D

when you plan a brew day and tasting with friends on December 21st to celebrate Winter coming... when you plan a brew day and tasting with friends on March 21st to celebrate spring coming... when you plan an extra long brew day and tasting on June 21st to celebrate the beginning of summer with...

Nice man. I felt similarly with my first all grain which was a Founder's Bkfst Stout clone. Enjoy

www.rollitup.org I believe I found a recipe there in the cooking forum. Check in with those guys and you might find something.

Welcome! That's great your wife is into it. Does she like the same beer as you? My wife loves that all grain costs less than store bought beer. She was sold when she saw that lol... Welcome

I agree. I'm hoping to use the meter just to get an overall number and see about how much is entering. I've been doing the calculations and found Calcium Chloride at my LHBS so I'll head over there today. 1.5 grams of calcium chloride per gallon. What about adding some sodium bicarbonate...

after doing some calculations I see I'm going to need that calcium chloride to get it right as you were saying with salts

ppm is "parts per million." I have a parts per million meter so I can essentially measure the amount of whats in the water. Palmer lists the ppm of 1 gram of whatever salt/bicarbonte will add to the water. So I'm planning/hoping on doing the math and taking my preliminary reading and trying...

Would you use the pilsen water profile for an allagash white clone?

I should share the reason I'm focusing on this so much is that I accidentally adjusted my water by using some spring water with a ppm of 30 and then added little gypsum nad it came out great. Did another batch with the town water ppm of 160 and added the gypsum and it came out no where near as...

In a concrete way I should mash in and let it sit for 5-10 minutes and then open up check temps and ph. Then add the appropriate salt up or down depending. Then stir and give it a few minutes to adjust and check again? How quickly with a good stir will the ph adjust?

That is very helpful. I went back to Palmer's book several times and took a little more away each time. Where I was confused was about the starting water profile and then whether or not it would be a huge change to add salts to adjust up and down which would then change the water profile...

I've recently been reading and experimenting over the last two batches with gypsum salt and ph but want to understand the steps to everything. i.e. take distilled water and add gypsum salt to it and take a ppm reading then when I get to around 100ppm use this for mash water? or use...

I checked the hydrometer reading today and it was the same it was quiet all day today. Came out great. I went ahead and bottled it this evening as planned. It's a 4.5% session IPA. I think the dry hopping process kicked it up so it seems something occurred similar to what Mithion is...

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