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   1. Deuchars IPA

      by dom, 9 years ago in BIAB Recipes

      

      Used to drink this a lot in Scotland. This recipe reminds me of it ... Pretty nice.
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      dom
      9 years ago
   2. Are there plans to create a Biabacus app?

      by dom, 11 years ago in Creating Your Own Recipes

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      Desktop app with a timer would be good with the ability to export recipe to a format for reading on a phone. Or the ability to export from biabacus and import into beersmith so you can use the timer on beersmith.
      
      Just some suggestions. I wondered if anyone's thought about it?
      
      I normally enter my recipe twice. Once in beersmith and once in biabicus. I use biabacus for all my measurements and beersmith only for the timer.
      It would be nice to only enter it once though.
      
      Cheers

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      Apologies for my slow reply hojt and dom.
      
      For me, there are many problems in coding the BIABacus. I have, I think now, naively, spent a lot of hours (and some money) trying to even just begin to get it coded. Unfortunately, Excel online and Google spreadsheets can't handle the BIABacus as can't many other formats. But, that is not what we are after anyway. This constant hope, only to always end in failure, made me look at things from a different angle. Basically, I searched for a program,...
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      Pat
      9 years ago
   3. Fullers ESB Clone

      by dom, 10 years ago in BIAB Recipes

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      Thought it was about time I started some payback. Below is a Fullers ESB clone I've just done. Its just finished fermenting so not had chance to try it yet, but I'll let you know how it goes. Hit the numbers OK so just need to add gelatin and crash and then dry hop - all in time for Xmas hopefully. Cheers !
      
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      Fullers ESB...

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      Got the London Pride Recipe from Graham wheelers book good solid basic recipes you will probably like his Marstons Pedigree recipe I had great success using Mangrove Jacks Burton Union yeast but the best ever when funds allowed was with Thames Valley 1275.
      Remember the Timothy Taylor Landlord from my local in Gloucestershire many many moons ago might give it ago myself one day.
      These beers are so lacking from our supermarket shelves :roll:
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      tingtong
      10 years ago
   4. Panhead Supercharger

      by dom, 10 years ago in BIAB Recipes

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      BIABacus Pre-Release 1.3T RECIPE REPORT
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      Panhead Supercharger - Batch 1
      
      Recipe Overview
      
      Brewer: Dom
      Style: APA
      Source Recipe Link:
      ABV: 4.5% (assumes any priming sugar used is diluted.)
      
      Original Gravity (OG): 1.046
      IBU's (Tinseth): 46.8
      Bitterness to Gravity Ratio: 1.02
      Colour: 9.3 EBC = 4.7 SRM
      
      Kettle Efficiency (as in EIB and EAW): 87.2 %
      Efficiency...

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      Yeah, it's not as high abv as the original (that's nearly 6% which is a bit high for me). I do like their Quickchange too. Lower abv than supercharger. Not sure of the recipe but they do list the hops on the label so you could do a base apa then use their list of hops as a guide. Cheers
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      dom
      10 years ago
   5. Ectoplasm from Kettle Tap

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      by dom, 11 years ago in Brew Day Stories and/or Pics

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      So whilst transferring from kettle to the fermenter I noticed some grey coloured jelly/ectoplasm type thing come out. I fished it out and had a closer inspection only to confirm it was indeed a grey jelly/ectoplasm/snot thing.
      Suspecting my ball valve I unscrewed it and found more of the grey matter inside. I've never flushed out the valve or took it out before, I only used to run water through it. So for all of you with taps and valve and thermometers, make sure you clean it properly or you...

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      Previous posts on cleaning the kettle's ball valve saved my behind. I avoided embarrassment because I thoroughly cleaned the darn thing after reading those and found a threatening color in the deal. It would have been a major failure for me after my line of work involving GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) and CBT (Clean By Test) procedures where it's not clean unless you clean it, and it's not proven clean until you prove it. I much prefer non-GMP work where one can get away with Don't look,...
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      ShorePoints
      10 years ago
   6. Pitching warm rehydrated yeast to cold wort

      by dom, 11 years ago in Yeasts

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      Hi.
      I plan to do a bohemian lager next. The one from Jamils book. I plan to rehydrate 2 packs of yeast according to the instructions in warm water - can't remember what temp now, maybe 24 degrees. But I need to ferment at 10 degrees. Is there any issue pitching this warm yeast into wort at 9-10 degrees? I'm just paranoid about shocking the yeast.
      Cheers.

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      Ah ok. I was thinking about infection whilst reading what you were saying and was glad to see you were too! I think I'll go with the sprinkling method as you say.
      Cheers!
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      dom
      11 years ago
   7. Where do I add Pumpkin in Biabacus ?

      by dom, 11 years ago in Creating Your Own Recipes

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      I've got a Pumpkin recipe attached which calls for 700g pumpkin. I've added it in miscellaneous but I think it might need to go into Section Y. This is because I want Biabacus to try and figure out my correct Mash volume as I imagine it will be affected by the pumpkin going into the mash.
      Whats the best approach for this ? I am unsure of the figures to put in section Y as I think not much sugar will be extracted - but as I say I expect my water volumes to be affected by it.
      
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      Oh nice one Mally I missed that when I searched. Ok I think I will steep whilst heating to strike temp, remove pumpkin and top up water if needed to get the correct TWN.
      
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      dom
      11 years ago
   8. Where do you add the Trub loss in a cube in Biabacus

      by dom, 11 years ago in Intermediate Brewing

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      Hi,
      I've started no-chill and when I rack into the FV from the cube I get approx 1.4 litres left in the bottom of the cube. My current KFL is 2.2 litres (ie trub in kettle) - do I just add the 1.4 to the 2.2 and stick that in as the new KFL figure ?
      
      seems i'll need a little more water to boil with doing no-chill to cater for the extra loss.
      
      Cheers

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      Sounds good/sensible to me Dom :salute:.
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      PistolPatch
      11 years ago
   9. Volume into FV is always too low

      by dom, 11 years ago in Intermediate Brewing

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      Hi,
      
      I've done 3 BIAB brews now and each one I am under when draining into the FV. Sometimes more than others. Todays brew I hit my gravity targets (in fact that hasn't been the problem in all three brews) - its the volume. So I have tried the calculator, Biabicus and Beersmith side by side. Of course all three give me different instructions for starting volumes :-D
      So todays brew I thought I'd give the Biabicus a go after reading a few of PistolPatchs posts on how more appropriate it is for...

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      Great! That is the way you want it. Topping up in the fermentor is much better than ending up with weak wort. Perfect!
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      PistolPatch
      11 years ago
   10. How beer was first made ....

       by dom, 11 years ago in General Chit-Chat, Nonsense & Rambles

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       OK this is a bit of a crazy post and something we were wondering in the office (instead of working - as you do !). I reckon maybe something happened like this......
       A long time ago people used to heat grain to make something edible with it. The leftover water they used to drink by boiling it up and adding spices. One day the village idiot didn't do the washing up and left a pot of said brew out into the open for a long time. Next time he was feeling thirsty he remembered the cold brew left over...

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       Thanks lumpy you inadvertently put me onto the beer hunter. Beer saved the world was really good too. 2 of my favourite things. Documentaries and beer all into 1
       
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       No problem! I saw these links but haven't seen any of the videos yet.
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       Lumpy5oh
       11 years ago

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