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   1. Finnish Dark Rye

      by yeriksen, 12 years ago in BIAB Recipes

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      I made a beer from the pieces I had left, and had to find some more grains to get the OG I wanted. I bought malted dark rye from from the grocery shop here in Finland. I would estimate it to be about 400 EBC. It is used to make low alcohol rye beer here.
      
      Anyway, I think this beer turned excellent, it is dark, a bit sweet and spicy.
      
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      Moi, been travelling, so sorry for late answer. Yes the stuff is kotikalja, thanks for the Prisma tips, I will try it.
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      yeriksen
      11 years ago
   2. 4 and a half under the belt, thanks to BIAB!

      by yeriksen, 12 years ago in Brew Day Stories and/or Pics

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      Thought I write up my experience with BIAB so far. It is now close to half a year since I decided to order the stuff needed to make beer, and since I do not like half fabricat I jumped straight into all grain, and BIAB seemed like the way to go.
      
      The 1st brew was a Zwartzbier, it turned out excellent even though I wasted half of it due to bad technique. The beer is now long gone.
      
      The 2nd was a brown ale, this was the first with liquid yeast. The yeast was old and did not make a started and...

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      yeriksen ,
      
      Thanks for the nice writeup. Your experience is typical in that you are having fun and getting great results with BIAB. I can only hope that new brewers have the excellent brewing experience you described. I can't help with the Belgian beer from Palm. I am not nuts about Belgian beers. I am just plain nuts!
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      BobBrews
      12 years ago
   3. Priming sugar not mixing into beer

      by yeriksen, 12 years ago in Intermediate Brewing

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      Hi all.
      
      Yesterday I bottled my 3rd brew, a Belgian beer. Now even dove I thought I has issue with the mixing of priming sugar in my last brew, I went ahead and did it the same way this time. I first poured my priming sugar solution in the bottom of the bottling bucket and siphoned the beer on top.
      
      The last of the beer went into a glass for tasting, and it was sweet. I measured it and it was 1.030. Final gravity of the beer was 1.014 (OG 1.055). I opened one if the other bottles and that was...

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      yeriksen,
      
      I boil a cup of water and dump it on top of the priming sugar to dissolve it. I siphon the beer into the bottling bucket onto the sugar. I stir with a sanitized spoon making sure the sugar and beer are mixed well. It seems to work for me. The only problem I had was by not having a full 5 gallons (19 liters) of beer in the bucket. I had the right amount of sugar each time but it was to little or much beer. The carbonation was either too low or too high?
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      BobBrews
      12 years ago
   4. My first ever brew.

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

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      Over the last week I have collected my brew bits and pieces. Now the time has come to figure out what beer to try to make.
      I found one for Schwartzbier on this site. It is from PistolPatch.
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      Style: Schwartzbier. This recipe can be brewed equally as well as a lager or an ale.
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      Yeast: If brewing as a lager use Saflager S23 (or a German or Bohemian liquid equivalent). If brewing as an ale use US-056.
      Original Gravity: The Calculator = 1.048
      Total IBU's: The Calculator = 23.2 IBU's...

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      yeriksen,
      
      Sounds like you did OK! Remember that the Mouth-feel is effected by the mash temperature. With a little bit warmer mash you might have added that thickness (mouth-feel) that you needed?? Keep us informed on your next brew!
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      BobBrews
      12 years ago
   5. Alcohol level vs taste question.

      by yeriksen, 12 years ago in Intermediate Brewing

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      Hi All.
      
      Does anybody have experience in how alcohol level affect the taste of beer.
      If one had the same recipe but with different water amount, i.e OG of 1.040 and 1.050.
      If both fermented out to FG of 1.010 what would be the difference in taste?

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      Thanks PP
      
      I'll continue brewing, I'm actually watching my 4th brew boiled now. It is a rye/munich beer (the left over from my other brews).
      
      Ihe Schwartz was very tasting and I have to make some more. PS the reason for low alcohol beer is so I can have two bottles before the kids ask why I'm singing. :)
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      yeriksen
      12 years ago
   6. Watery beer

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

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      Tasted my second brew today after two weeks on the bottle. It has nice color and good head, but the taste is watery, but no off taste that I can detect.
      
      It was suppose to be a English Brown ale, and a it has gotten a lot of good review on the net. See Aberdeen Brown Ale on HomeBrewTalk.com.
      
      I have attached the recipe if anybody can see what went wrong. All my numbers was close to what recipe say, only issue was that my liquid yeast did not work and I had to re-pitch it with dry yeast...

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      Hi
      
      The picture in post 1 is from the fermenter before the cold crash. After the cold crash I siphoned the beer on top of my priming sugar (no yeast as I wrote :)).
      
      I guess a issue may may be that warm sugar solution does not mix to good with cold beer.
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      yeriksen
      12 years ago

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