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   1. Trying to make a sweet stout

      by monkeyman, 12 years ago in Creating Your Own Recipes

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      Hello all, thought I would give a try at making my own recipe for a stout. The base for the recipe is from BCS, the Triple-X recipe. I have brewed that one twice so far and liked it but was hoping to make some changes. I find I like my stouts a bit sweet with nice chocolate flavor but with the least amount of bitterness possible. I also like a thick, chewy beer as well. I posted my attempt at the BIABACUS with this recipe as well. Please feel free to shred it apart. Thank you for the help.

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      Bottles this recently after steeping about 100g of cacao nibs and about 10 chopped red chilies in about 200mL of vodka for 5 days. Has added a bit more chocolate flavour but more important ya bit of the burn I was looking for. Can't wait to see how this comes up!
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      Contrarian
      12 years ago
   2. NRB Amarillo Ale

      by monkeyman, 12 years ago in General Chit-Chat, Nonsense & Rambles

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      Just cracked one of these open. It has been in the bottle for 2.5 weeks. This is a really good recipe! My wife even liked it and she usually only goes for dark beers. This is my first use of Amarillo hops and they are incredible! What a completely unique flavor and aroma profile. This will be a regular brew for me for sure. :champ:

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      Sounds nice. I bottled mine last weekend and hopefully turns out good as well. Can't wait.
      
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      nosco
      12 years ago
   3. brew day review help

      by monkeyman, 12 years ago in Intermediate Brewing

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      I have been working on an American Amber Ale. This is version 3. It is basically the BCS recipe with Special B in place of the Crystal 120. The predicted pre boil gravity was 1.041. I ended up with 1.047 so I added 1200 ml of RO water to the sweet liquor prior to the boil. That dropped the gravity to 1.044 ( I wanted to add more but was out of RO water). The OG ended up pretty close to the predicted 1.052 ( 1.051 as best as I could tell with my equipment). My question is, how do I put my final...

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      No banana - lol!!!
      
      majorphill - Sorry major, I missed your post #5 above somehow. I'm guessing that monkey's VIB included his 1200 ml top-up. This plus a GIB of 1.044 gives him an EIB of 97.9% which is pretty possible on a small batch size where the bag can be squeezed a lot easier thatn a larger bag.
      
      monkey - Sorry mate, I forgot to add the file in above but basically, assuming what I wrote to majorphill above is correct, then your EIB and EAW were pretty close to each other which tends to...
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      PistolPatch
      12 years ago
   4. Unit conversion

      by monkeyman, 12 years ago in Measurement, Mathematics and Records

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      Not sure if this was already mentioned but I tried using the unit conversion page for gallons to liters and it was giving me a wrong value. I entered 3.57 gallons and it gave me 16.23 Liters. It was supposed to be 13.51 Liters. Not sure if this is an actual error or an operator error.

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      NP :)
      
      I know how that feels, i love the Edit post function, have helped me no end :)
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      Yettiman
      12 years ago
   5. Positive feedback

      by monkeyman, 12 years ago in BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members

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      Hello, I am new to brewing, started at the beginning of the year with a one gallon kit from Northern Brewer, courtesy of my wife. Instantly fell in love with brewing but had one problem. I move every 3-6 months for work and everything, including my wife's stuff, has to fit into a Hyundai Santa Fe. I was really bummed bc I wanted to jump into AG brewing. Luckily I found this site and gave BIAB a try. I make small 1.5 to 2 gallon batches on the stove. I am on batch # 7 right now. Took your advice...

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