Cede
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You can add a few oz of carapils / carafoam for head retention.
Brewed a 1 gallon batch (scaled down using Beersmith 3), of this on Oct. 20th with one exception. I used Crystal 20L instead of 10L. OG taken with my hydrometer was 1.052. I got thinking about the amount amount of beer needed to take 2 final readings from a one gallon batch. So I ordered a refractometer, even though it's not intended for FG readings. I verified distilled water reading. Then using Brewers Friend I made calculations to estimate the general FG here's what I got:
Thanks for the detailed explanation schematix. I pretty much assumed a refractometer at this point in the process wasn't going to get me an accurate abv measurement. I bought it, for this batch anyway, with the intent to get two consecutive equal readings to verify fermentation is complete, without taking a "hydrometer-worth" from my gallon batch to do so. Interesting about running samples through a coffee filter. Seems I have a lot to learn.
Quite honestly, at this point in time I'm not too concerned in measuring for abv within .1% I'm fine to know it's plus/minus 1.0% As a relatively new brewer a ballpark estimate is fine with me for now as I'm still working on dialing in my process.
I brewed a 1.25 gallon batch of this in the fall, and I think I still have a couple bottles left. I'm thinking about brewing 5 gallons of it for my next batch, and move from bottling to kegging. Since it's all cascade hops, if I remember correctly, I'm thinking of dry hopping with more cascade.Hi, after reading almost the entire thread im going to give this a go for my 1st all grain brew in 5 years, I was thinking of dry hopping it
any suggestions? cheers!
I have simcoe,cascade and Chinook but can buy whatever will suit it best
I wouldn’t change anything the first time. Try it as is, great, easy, cheap recipe and then experiment after that. But if you do dry hop, cascade sounds best out of those 3 to me.Hi, after reading almost the entire thread im going to give this a go for my 1st all grain brew in 5 years, I was thinking of dry hopping it
any suggestions? cheers!
I have simcoe,cascade and Chinook but can buy whatever will suit it best
Anyone know how this would go with wlp 001? my HB store is out of Nottingham
Brewed 11g and pitched two dry Nottingham packets without hydrating per the original instructions. Ferm ended at 1.020. Should I pull some settled yeast from the bottom of the conical and reintroduce it to continue ferm?
A quick question for the OP or anybody else who has brewed this... I am plugging the recipe into my BeerSmith and when I add the hop additions exactly as the original recipe I only get 28.3 IBUs as opposed to the OPs 39. I haven't ordered my ingredients so without knowing the AA of the Cascade hops I'd receive, has anybody else noticed this discrepancy? Or am I missing something? To get to approximately 39.5 IBU with 6.6% AA hops my additions look like this for a total of 3oz instead of 2oz...
1.25 oz @60
.75 oz @30
.5 oz @15
.5 oz @ 5
Are these reasonable modifications?
Thanks
I brewed a scaled down (1.25 gallon) batch of this, but kept ratios pretty much the same. Just had one after work today in fact. My opinion - there's not much hop presence at all, more like a blonde than a pale ale, especially now that mine's been in the bottle about 5 months. It's really good as is, a nice easy drinker, but when I brew it again I'll definitely adjust the hops upward a bit, or maybe dry hop it. I think it's a great base beer that can easily take whatever tweaks you like.
I brewed this yesterday with BIAB and finished with 5.75 gallons at 1.062, I changed nothing other than the hops. I usually overshoot the OG but not this much...
Buck - Try pitching more yeast. I followed the rehydration instructions on the Nottingham package and had activity within an hour.
Please keep us posted on how this turns out.A recipe from 2007 and still going strong! I found this recipe via an “Homebrewtalk top 100 recipes” document and thought It would be a good one to try out since I have all ingredients in my inventory. So I brewed up 20 liters of this earlier today. A bit low on the OG (1.047, was some water left in the pump when I turned it on for cooling.. yikes!) but nevertheless I hope it’ll turn out to be a nice beer. We’ll see in a few weeks.
I'm planning an upcoming brew day and since I liked this one so much I 'm thinking giving it another go. But I want to change up the hops a bit and so I reread this thread and your post in particular interested me. I have plenty of Cascade and also some Falconers Flight and was interested in how yours aged. Or did you finish it so fast that it didn't? Overall impressions?Did my third 5g. Batch of this 4 weeks ago and it came out great as always, Half kegged in a 3g. Keg and half bottled. I did a blend of hops this time. Falconers for the 60 minute and a blend with cascade @ 20 and 5. Plenty of folks stuck around to finish the keg in 2 days. Luckily I have the case of bottles carbing for this weekend!
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