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Hey, Just wanted to say how I got on with this. Managed an OG of 1.097 which was not far off at all. I was having a much harder time keeping the mash at temp than previous brews - I wonder whether this was due to the much smaller amount of liquid than what I'm used to, or the higher amount of grain?...

That's brilliant, thanks! As I said before I've no real experience of putting together RIS recipes so I'm happy to try out your suggestions in terms of grain/hops proportions and see what happens. It is a shame about already ordering ingredients but I couldn't resist saving on delivery (and the sing...

Hi Mally, Coming back to this again now - got this week off work and itching to finally make a stout! Hopefully start tomorrow or Friday, I've got a no-chill cube on the way so if I can get something into that by the end of Friday I should be able to find a few minutes at the weekend (despite having...

I need to place an order now for some ingredients as part of the order will be an extract kit (present for a friend's birthday this weekend) With this in mind, I might just order an approximate amount of malts and hops to match the brew sheet above for Paradox. Would anyone be able to suggest a semi...

Cheers for all the input guys, apologies for the late reply - finally coming back to this now and hoping to get an order placed over the next day or two. Would any of the big stout recipes above be tweakable to allow me to make a 10L final volume and in doing so allow me to skip all of the maxi-biab...

I did an imperial stout last year, that comes in near 9% ABV. I had a Brewdog Psycho Cocoa a few weeks back and it seemed similar to that. I used oak chips, vanilla pods, cocoa nibs and orange peel. Needless to say all that disappears with the strong flavours and aromas of the grain bill, so may be...

Wow thats a big beer :argh: and a big ask going on the info we have :sad: I think the best you could do is find an Imperial stout recipe and ramp it up. See what you can find and post back, in the mean time someone might volunteer a recipe. :salute: Yeasty Cheers. As I mentioned the ABV isn't essen...

Request: Big Imperial Stout recipe akin to BrewDog's Paradox

Hey, I'm looking for advice putting a recipe together for my next brew, either from scratch or by modifying an existing BIABacus file. I love big imperial stouts lately, in fact my favourite by far is the BrewDog's Paradox aged in Isle of Arran whisky casks. They don't have a brew sheet up for this ...

Thanks Bob, I've seen similar lists in the past and have so far failed to fit it into any of the categories. If it wasn't such a PITA I'd suggest sending you a bottle through the post for diagnosis(!) Is there anyone here in the UK who might volunteer to diagnose the source of this mystery unwanted ...

Finally tasted this and while going all-grain hasn't *completely* removed the "homebrew twang" I was trying to get rid of, it is at least 10x better than my can brews :) very happy! It has come out as more of an American Brown Ale rather than Pale but I am putting that down to buying Caramunich rath...

No worries! Thanks for picking up on them. I was worried that there was no real hot break visible as such (I was expecting an immediate boil over as I've seen on various YouTube videos etc) but hopefully all is well. The beer was cooled overnight but as far as I can tell it doesn't seem to have caug...

I have finally got this in a FV, it's been there for a week now. I managed to get the OG to 1.062 which I thought was quite close for my first BIAB (should have been 1.064 IIRC). There were a few hiccups - firstly I didn't experience 'hot break'; I suspect that the boil on our gas hobs (kitchen stov...

Alright, I've had a basic APA recommended to me over in the Recipes thread. I downloaded the pre-populated BIABacus spreadsheet they linked me to and changed the following: Kettle shape: 27cm diameter, 37cm height Desired volume into fermentor: 10L From that it gave me the following grain bill: Mari...

I'd be happy doing an APA for my first brew - anything to be honest, as long as it tasted better than the canned stuff I've made in the past! :) Mad_Scientist, thanks for the link, I may as well try that. Yes I'll give the BIABacus a go - does it work in OpenOffice/LibreOffice? Should return to the ...

New to BIAB, concerns over hob power, batch size & boil time

Hey, I've never brewed BIAB before but looking to start. I have been given a stainless steel pot which is about 20L in size (photos for context: http://imgur.com/a/pRV9V#0 ) Firstly, I filled this with 15L cold water (just a guess as to a sensible amount to use) and on our biggest gas ring on the ki...

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