Help with recipe plz
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Actually, you made a "British mild", from the OG it looks like! A good mild is always a winner.
It does sound like a good beer, and that is the important thing in the end!
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BrewerBaj
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So this turned out pretty bad... besides the fact that it's Only 2.5%ABV,which was very disappointing, the samples I have taken have not tasted good at all. I don't even know how to describe it besides bland. It's been in the primary for 14 days and I am coming to a point where I need to make a decision. Rack to a secondary or bottle. My question is, does anyone have any recommendations for an adjunct to add to it if I choose to rack to a secondary. I was wondering how it would be if I did something like raspberry or anything that will give this beer another dimension. All suggestions appreciated.
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What were your gravities again?
OG 1.036
FG ????
I can see a "mild" coming across as bland at first. My first all grain was a mild and I also thought it was bland; that is, until I kegged and carbonated it. Then it came into it's own and got some legs; nothing too big or robust, but definitely picked something up in the aging/carbing. Carbonation alone will add dynamic to a beer. I actually turned into a nice drinker because I could have a couple without feeling much effect from it at all.
I don't know if _I_ would add anything to it. If I did, I might think about a small hazelnut extract addition but you'd really want to keep it SUBTLE. What you DON'T want to do is open a bottle and say to yourself "that smells like hazelnuts" (then you know you'd have added too much). But again, I would probably just bottle and let carb. It should get better with age and carbonation.
OG 1.036
FG ????
I can see a "mild" coming across as bland at first. My first all grain was a mild and I also thought it was bland; that is, until I kegged and carbonated it. Then it came into it's own and got some legs; nothing too big or robust, but definitely picked something up in the aging/carbing. Carbonation alone will add dynamic to a beer. I actually turned into a nice drinker because I could have a couple without feeling much effect from it at all.
I don't know if _I_ would add anything to it. If I did, I might think about a small hazelnut extract addition but you'd really want to keep it SUBTLE. What you DON'T want to do is open a bottle and say to yourself "that smells like hazelnuts" (then you know you'd have added too much). But again, I would probably just bottle and let carb. It should get better with age and carbonation.
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