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Howdy Al, Firstly, did you check out the above links? If so, I hope that answered the rolling boil question. If you didn't have a rolling boil going, this could have also contributed to your trub problem which we will get to in a minute. I think the plastic container is about 100% likely to have ca...

Forum: Creating Your Own Recipes
Topic: New to recipe design - your feedback wanted please :-)
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As often happens, thoughts came to me after a good night's sleep. 1. I wonder if my initial measurements of water were out because I "calibrated" my measurements using a 5L plastic container and COLD water. Now I think about it, with the boiler turned up to full heat, the water I was using from the ...

Forum: Creating Your Own Recipes
Topic: New to recipe design - your feedback wanted please :-)
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Wonder if your definition of rolling boil is different from mine. I reckon if a column of bubbles of steam is pushing up over each of the gas rings and the whole lot is churning it's rolling. If it's all just kind of swirling about but not really bubbling then it's a simmer. I will confess to a cert...

Forum: Creating Your Own Recipes
Topic: New to recipe design - your feedback wanted please :-)
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Well, I think BIABacus and I need to have a little chat. Once I have taught it the error(s) of its ways I am sure we will work well together. I am not too cross about it in the end though. Not bad for a first try working together. The 40 litres was way too much. My losses were about 9 litres, so in ...

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Topic: New to recipe design - your feedback wanted please :-)
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I suspect this is getting to be running before I can walk, it being my 8th brew and all. Still, aim high, especially since I harbour a quiet ambition to go part time on my day job and brew beer as a paying hobby one day. So I downloaded the BIABacus files and had a poke about. Then my head hurt so I...

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Mad_Scientist wrote:Why aren't you using the BIABacus?

Still getting used to it. Only been brewing for a few weeks, and only a member here since August.

Forum: Creating Your Own Recipes
Topic: New to recipe design - your feedback wanted please :-)
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Hi PP. Spent a fruitless half hour hunting down this elusive Irish Moss information. All the manufacturers I can find online say 15 mins. A few recipes and blogs say 5 minutes but literally a tiny fraction compared to those that say 15. I did briefly wonder if 5 mins woud be better for a 60 minute b...

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Topic: New to recipe design - your feedback wanted please :-)
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Al, there are two important things missing from your recipe reports - the planned original gravity and volume of ambient wort (this is volume into fermentor plus your planned kettle trub). Most recipe reports lack information on this volume figure even though it its the most critical one. Also note...

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Topic: New to recipe design - your feedback wanted please :-)
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New to recipe design - your feedback wanted please :-)

I am getting into BIAB brewing and trying to have a crack at as many different styles as possible to find out what I like and what I can create. I have come up with the following recipes after lots of reading around. Can anybody see any glaring errors or suggest any tempting modifications to them? T...

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Topic: New to recipe design - your feedback wanted please :-)
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At this point I should probably edit my post to say it has been successfully answered, but you guys keep posting more info, so I will keep it open a little while longer. Links all useful too. I think I will perhaps get a pH meter one day, I can get paper from work, but it isn't terribly accurate for...

Forum: BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members
Topic: Squeezing the bag
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12 years ago
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Thanks guys - appreciated :-)

Forum: BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members
Topic: Squeezing the bag
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12 years ago
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Squeezing the bag

Strictly speaking I don't use a bag, just a sheet of voile, but it's all the same in the end. Anyhow, on my other forum there are many threads relating to not squeezing the bag too much or you get tannins released into your wort. 1. Is there much truth to this? 2. How hard is "too hard" when it come...

Forum: BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members
Topic: Squeezing the bag
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1. Where are you from? Kent, UK 2. How did you stumble across the site? Suggested by my other forum (the homebrewforum in the UK) 3. What you think of it so far? Helpful source of specifically BIAB information 4. Have you brewed at all before. If so, for how long and what method are you currently us...

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Topic: My First Post! - Post here to become Fully Registered
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Registration process? I seem to have missed that part. I signed up and gave details but that took very little time at all. 1. Was the time it took to go through the process worthwhile? Yes, although I don't recall it taking very long (registered a week or so ago) 2. Did you cheat? :) Cheat how? I do...

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Topic: How Did You Find the Registration Process?
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