BYO Vermont Recipes from Oct 2013 Issue

[JJ900]

Hi all,
I'd be curious as well to hear how it goes for others...
The Double Sunshine Extract with Grains version in post #15 looks straightforward enough for me to try as one of my first attempts not straight from a kit. Could I do a partial boil in my 5gal kettle with this and add say 1/3 light LME at start of boil and 2/3 of the light LME with 15 mins left in the boil, but otherwise keep the recipe the same? I'm thinking I'd be boiling 3+ gals or so in addition to the 2gal of water that goes into the mash. Thanks for any thoughts.

 

[Weezy]

Hi all,
I'd be curious as well to hear how it goes for others...
The Double Sunshine Extract with Grains version in post #15 looks straightforward enough for me to try as one of my first attempts not straight from a kit. Could I do a partial boil in my 5gal kettle with this and add say 1/3 light LME at start of boil and 2/3 of the light LME with 15 mins left in the boil, but otherwise keep the recipe the same? I'm thinking I'd be boiling 3+ gals or so in addition to the 2gal of water that goes into the mash. Thanks for any thoughts.

You can absolutely partial boil with the wash from the mash and some or none of the extract, then top off with water in the fermenter. You could just put all the extract in at the end of the boil if you wanted.

Keep in mind that the Vienna malt must be converted by a mash (it seems like you recognize that but I wasn't certain).

 

[user 190343]

I brewed the HT all-grain recipe back on Oct 5 with some harvested Conan. I got 85% attenuation after 7 days and it was crystal clear by then already. I did the dry hops and am cold crashing now. I did not use Polyclar since it was so clear after fermentation.

I'll be brewing a modified version of the Abner extract recipe from that issue this weekend for Learn To Homebrew Day. I felt using the light liquid extract & caramalt steeping grains would make it way too dark compared to the real deal, so I'm going with 9lbs of extra light DME, .5lb of Crystal 20°L and .5lbs of wheat malt(for nice head). The dry hop schedule is crazy huge and will be awesome.

 

[JJ900]

You can absolutely partial boil with the wash from the mash and some or none of the extract, then top off with water in the fermenter. You could just put all the extract in at the end of the boil if you wanted.

Keep in mind that the Vienna malt must be converted by a mash (it seems like you recognize that but I wasn't certain).

Weezy that sounds great, thanks! I definitely will mash the Vienna malt.

I typed the recipe into Brewers Friend to see what impact the boil size and late extract addition would have and it looks like I would need to drop the bittering hops down to .5oz from .75oz to keep the same IBUs. But if I understand other threads correctly, I wouldn't be able to detect the difference between those two amounts anyway (115 IBUs vs 130IBUs).

 

[Weezy]

Read this with regards to boil volumes and gravities and how they affect IBUs.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/split-boils-488120/

 

[chato]

Anybody tried the Double Sunshine? I've got a pound of Citra in the freezer and am considering making this one.

I just did the DS clone. It's been in bottles for about a week and a half. I tried one at a week and it was still flat, but man, the taste was unbelievable. Really close to Lawson's Sunshine beers. Can't wait for them to finish conditioning. If I were you, I'd use the whole pound of Citra. I didn't have a full pound so I used 12 oz of Citra and added some Centennial and Amarillo in the hopstand and dry hop to get it to a full pound, and I'm glad I did. So much hoppy goodness!

 

[ultravista]

Thank you for the Beersmith file.