Boil or steep

[Thomasmcdaniel9]

Ah gotcha . Yea I hope it turns out good this time. That last batch I messed up. OMG it smelled freaking funky since there was no alcohol content. But I think this one will be ok. I'm hoping

 

[BrewInspector]

It would help you immensely to have a COMPLETE recipe. Listing all ingredients and what to do with each when as well as the expected results of those actions. ie. What is your expected OG, FG, SRM, ABV, IBU...? Not the ranges that describe the style and a batch of ingredients.

Where are you getting your recipe from? An experienced brewer could make a fine beer from it but everyone's would be different without specific guidance to an end goal. If you are attempting to duplicate a beer you had before, this will not be the same without instructions.

Where are you getting your grain, hops and DME? They should have kits for something like what you want. They might be able to offer more direct guidance on how to proceed.

 

[BitterSweetBrews]

I concur with what others have said.

Watch some YouTube videos. There are plenty on Extract brewing, BrewInABag and making all grain beers. Search for extract and all grain brewing instructions. A lot of the mail order supplies have them posted. Read John Palmer's online copy of "How to Brew". You are flying blind and guessing.

It can take a few brew days until you are comfortable with the process, don't get discouraged.

An OG of 1.040 will get you a 4% beer if the yeast works it down to 1.008. Try to get to somewhere where the temp is in the mid to low 60s.

 

[Thomasmcdaniel9]

It would help you immensely to have a COMPLETE recipe. Listing all ingredients and what to do with each when as well as the expected results of those actions. ie. What is your expected OG, FG, SRM, ABV, IBU...? Not the ranges that describe the style and a batch of ingredients.

Where are you getting your recipe from? An experienced brewer could make a fine beer from it but everyone's would be different without specific guidance to an end goal. If you are attempting to duplicate a beer you had before, this will not be the same without instructions.

Where are you getting your grain, hops and DME? They should have kits for something like what you want. They might be able to offer more direct guidance on how to proceed.

See that's the thing this beer I could not find a complete recipe this is the only thing I could find on it . It would have been nice to find a 100% clone recipe but had no luck.

 

[Thomasmcdaniel9]

I concur with what others have said.

Watch some YouTube videos. There are plenty on Extract brewing, BrewInABag and making all grain beers. Search for extract and all grain brewing instructions. A lot of the mail order supplies have them posted. Read John Palmer's online copy of "How to Brew". You are flying blind and guessing.

It can take a few brew days until you are comfortable with the process, don't get discouraged.

An OG of 1.040 will get you a 4% beer if the yeast works it down to 1.008. Try to get to somewhere where the temp is in the mid to low 60s.

Yes I'm hoping the yeast will eat a lot of the sugar this time since I changed the 2 row grain to LME extract and done the specialty grains the proper way. I did utilize YouTube quite a bit this go round. Got water to around 160 F and just soaked the specialty grains for about 30-35 minutes brought my main water to a boil killed the heat let it stand for a few minutes poured in the LME dissolved all of it then proceeded with the boil. Dumped my specialty grain liquid in with the main boil from there added hop additions as needed ..

 

[kh54s10]

Yes I'm hoping the yeast will eat a lot of the sugar this time since I changed the 2 row grain to LME extract and done the specialty grains the proper way. I did utilize YouTube quite a bit this go round. Got water to around 160 F and just soaked the specialty grains for about 30-35 minutes brought my main water to a boil killed the heat let it stand for a few minutes poured in the LME dissolved all of it then proceeded with the boil. Dumped my specialty grain liquid in with the main boil from there added hop additions as needed ..

While this process will probably work it is far simpler to do an extract batch with specialty grains by warming 2 - 2.5 gallons of water to about 160 -170 and steeping the grains for about 20 minutes. You then remove the grains, heat to boiling. Remove from the heat and add your extract. Continue with the boil adding hops at the proper time then top up cool, pour the wort into the fermenter and top up to 5 gallons.

Look at Northern Brewer's extract recipes. Pick one that you find interesting. Scroll down until you see Beer recipe kit instructions. They give a good procedure for brewing an extract.

https://www.northernbrewer.com/

Here is something else to get you going.

https://learn.northernbrewer.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002505093-How-to-Brew-Beer-Homebrewing-101

 

[BrewInspector]

See that's the thing this beer I could not find a complete recipe this is the only thing I could find on it . It would have been nice to find a 100% clone recipe but had no luck.

If it is a clone of a production beer, someone probably has a recipe. Maybe not identical to yours but with more information. ASK. What is it you are attempting to duplicate? Is Bad Penny the actual name of a production beer?

You could also plug the parts you do have into a free brewing software app and get some idea of expected outcomes such as the gravity readings at various stages.

 

[Thomasmcdaniel9]

If it is a clone of a production beer, someone probably has a recipe. Maybe not identical to yours but with more information. ASK. What is it you are attempting to duplicate? Is Bad Penny the actual name of a production beer?

You could also plug the parts you do have into a free brewing software app and get some idea of expected outcomes such as the gravity readings at various stages.

 

[Thomasmcdaniel9]

Yes it's bad penny made by big boss I've searched everywhere looked on beer Smith nothing available that I have found