homebrewdad
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This past weekend, I brewed a Christmas ale. One of the techniques I employed was reducing a gallon of the first runnings to a syrup. This post walks you through the process (which is, admittedly, very simple).
Creating Syrup from First Runnings
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The recipe OG is 1074. What was the grav of the 1st gallon of run off?
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homebrewdad
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Can I make an unpopular confession?
I never take preboil gravities. It's been so long since I've missed a gravity by more than a point or two that I just don't worry about it.
This weekend was no different - once I adjusted for temperature, I nailed 1.074 on the nose.
I do this regularly for my Special Bitter. Pulling out the first gallon of running and reduce it down to a syrup, getting that like caramel flavor back into the beer. I suppose you could get that by doing a 120 minute boil but I like the results of doing this.
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