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Ah crap you are right. Good spot. I am missing one KG.... ****, I have to email them and try to add it to my order. Thanks!

You are absolutely correct sir. Need to take a breather here and await my ingredients. Also find myself a pot :P Thanks a lot to everyone for all the helpful tips and advice so far! You are making this journey so much more exciting for me :D I will calm down now haha. Thanks again everybody!

Small overall update. Ordered my ingredients earlier today :) I found a slightly cheaper site, saving me about 10€ which was nice. Though the chinook pellets are reported to have slightly lower AA (9-12), so I will have to tweak my recipe a bit. I got a 250g bag as they were out of stock for...

Yeah. I feel like we try to keep it as simple as possible but always get side tracked with the very details :P

Got ya. I guess water is hard to give advice on, especially tap water as it is not really the same unless you live in the same area.

Then it is basically what I thought :) This is because of the lack of malt/dextrose and what not in the boil right. :) And yea, I don't think he paid too much attention to the alpha content of my hops.

Thanks. It's hard to know whose advice to go bye when people have different tips that don't always go hand in hand. I will this time opt for tap water only and see what my results are. I have some friends brewing here in the same city, I could just ask them for what water they use as they...

@Miraculix Sorry to be bothering you once again buddy. I was just wondering what the "official explanation" is to why 13g of hops in my 45min hop tea boil is enough for my IBU and otherwise? My friend and his dad brew from time to time and he said that it sounded way too little, though he admit...

Hmm well this is certainly the first time I am hearing about this. I feel like I get contradicting information really. Some say one thing and some say another.

Interesting! Though I think I will stick to regular water this time, but that's good to know!

Got it. Yea I will keep that in mind for my next one. I will try working with this one for now though. I wish I would have been into this more "custom brewing" than just branded liquid extracts + fermenter before. I guess I would have gotten a better one then. But I hope it will be fine :)

I have a link in the original post but here it is again https://www.amazon.com/Coopers-Inclusive-Hydrometer-Ingredients-Accessories/dp/B004QCXWSA?tag=forumyield-20

Yet another clarification, since I am not boiling the malt extract, the OG will be off? But not too much? If I remember correctly? I will still be taking gravity readings as I am such a newbie, and I wanna know ofc. The stable SG should be fine either way though, to indicate fermentation has...

:mug: I'm lazy too :D Fingers crossed it's fine :)

This is our water at 20C Looks to my eye to be 0.998 I have never tried the hydrometer in guaranteed 1.000 water, so could be that it is not fully on point (calibrated).

I am pretty sure ours is about the same. Untreated. :) And in this case, do you mean bottled water for the boil, and tap for the top off, or everything bottled? Of course everything would be ideal but feels a bit silly to buy water when we have so clean drinking water from the tap. For the...

Okay thanks. That clears it up. I should get fairly similar results, not matter if I use brewferm or Muntons, bottom line? Also, I had a question regarding waters. When is tap water OK and when should I opt for bottled water? For exampel for the hop tea, The IBU is calculated assuming bottled...

Yea that is what I thought, but I could not even save my recipe with the brewferm malt in there lol. I think it is because the PPG is 0 for some reason.... Also it seems to know 2.56 °L vs Muntons at 4.3 °L. What do these numbers even mean? Yes :) I figured I would just add room temp tap...

Okay now I have updated the recipe with some instructions and correct hop amounts. The IBU value is not to be trusted from the recipe, but the IBU calculator rates the hop tea at 35 IBU :) https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1118448/matheos-partial-boil-chinook-smash-ipa...

This is a good point. The real numbers don't really matter as long as you with experience know what calculator you use and stay consistent in using the same. Then you know from experience next time, what numbers to aim for according to your chosen calculator. Great point :thumbsup: