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   1. New brewer with a few problems

      by Slaw07, 11 years ago in BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members

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      Hello all,
      I've done a whopping 3! brew days in my life, and have run into some problems that I'm hoping you all have suggestions on.
      
      1) my first two brews came out tasting rather bitter. I carbon filtered the water for both brews. From what I've read, it seems like an astringency issue. The first brew (oatmeal stout) had major temperature issues, so it's easy to attribute that one to sparge temps above 170 (yes, I sparged). The second (American amber) however, was just about dead on temp...

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      Thanks, PistolPatch. I appreciate your feedback and will definitely be using BIABacus for my next brew. Hoping to brew this weekend so I will sit down and spend some quality time with the resources mentioned above. From everything I've read about BIABacus, it seems like it should give me a lot more structure. You're absolutely right that the kit recipe is fairly useless for anyone that is new to brewing.
      
      I may be back with questions about putting my recipe together in BIABacus, but after...
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      Slaw07
      11 years ago

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