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   1. BIAB number 5

      by oz11, 15 years ago in Intermediate Brewing

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      Going to have brew day tomorrow to use up some bits and pieces.
      The malt bill will be something like:
      91% Pale Malt
      3.5% Crystal
      3.5% Munich
      2% CaraAmber
      
      Hops will be
      Northdown (8.7% AA) and
      Challenger (7.6%AA) 60min boil for bittering
      
      Northdown late hops at 15 min.
      
      Yeast S04.
      
      The style/ingredients is based loosely on Badger Dorset best bitter (munich and caraamber not in the original recipe).
      
      Mini-BIAB looking for about 10 or 11L into bottles, at an OG of 1041 and IBU about 28 which is a...

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      Tried a first taster of this today from a bottle...it's pretty good, very drinkable looking forward to the rest!
      
      Also have done a 6th brew, based on Hall and Woodhouse Tanglefoot.
      
      Grain bill was MO Pale malt(82%) and white sugar (18%).
      Hops Challenger and Northdown for bittering, and Northdown at 15min.
      
      After 4 days in FV I chucked in about 12g Northdown as a dry hop to use up the rest of the pack.
      
      Conditioning now in bottles and an easy key. OG was 1049 and FG 1009 so pretty much what I...
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      oz11
      15 years ago
   2. 2nd BIAB all done

      by oz11, 15 years ago in Brew Day Stories and/or Pics

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      Just finished clearing up.
      
      Willow (Best) Bitter (based on Fuller's London Pride)
      
      Mini-BIAB 10L Brew
      
      The grain bill was:
      Pale Ale (MO): 2250g (90%)
      Crystal : 250g (10%)
      Total : 2500g
      
      Mash Temp 65c
      Mash Length 90mins
      
      Mash Out at 77c
      
      Boil Length 60mins
      
      Target AA 12.53% 5.5g (60min)
      Northdown 8.7% 5.5g (60min)
      Challenger 7.6% 6.0g (60min)
      
      Northdown 5.0g (10min)
      1/4 tablet protofloc
      
      Yeast safale S04.
      
      Will dry hop this after primary with about 7 - 8g of target.
      
      Mash all went well, was very...

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      Hey Oz
      
      I did the same thing last week, except with a bottle. What to do? Tip 650ml and fish out the bottling rig valve? Nope. Put the bottle aside and drink it first!
      
      BD
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      big dave
      15 years ago
   3. 4th Mini

      by oz11, 15 years ago in Intermediate Brewing

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      I have a non-brewing buddy coming over on saturday so going to have a brew day. Coming to the end of the amarillo APA that was my first BIAB so going to have another bash at this to use up the leftover ingredients. The first brew was way below the target strength for this beer so will increase the ingredients and combine that with what I have since learnt about my set up to get a higher gravity brew.

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      Glad to hear the first recipe was 'perfectly nice.' (I can detect a cockney flavour to that phrase - lol!)
      
      I push the Schwartz because it is a beer that will be 'enjoyed,' (my defintion: provoke joy) by a wide range of people, the most important being you! (In your honour, I just drank a stout while writing this post. It was drinkable but more over-powering than interesting to my palate.)
      
      Using up bits and pieces from your fridge etc should still give you a great beer. We should probably do...
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      PistolPatch
      15 years ago
   4. 3rd Mini BIAB

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      by oz11, 15 years ago in Intermediate Brewing

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      Got some Challenger hops to use so will be trying a single hop beer. Having searched around I find that Coniston Bluebird is a Challenger single hop brew. So along those lines aiming for a final volume of 10L or so:
      
      MO Pale Ale Malt 95% (Weights to be calculated when I check the figures for BIAB #2)
      Crystal Malt 5%
      
      Mash for 90 min including 5 min mash out.
      
      Target OG 1038
      
      60 min boil
      Challenger (7.6% AA) 19g (60 mins)
      Challenger (7.6% ) 10g (15 mins)
      
      Aiming for 39IBU.
      
      A little research...

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      Good stuff oz11, well pleased, eh?! :drink:
      
      I generally don't fuss much over clarity in ales, only for competitive batches do I do anything more than use WhirlFloc in the kettle, with Lagers I also add PolyClar and CC.
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      Ralph
      15 years ago
   5. IBU/EBU

      by oz11, 15 years ago in Creating Your Own Recipes

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      Does anyone know if IBU's and EBU's are the same thing? I was looking at Coniston Bluebird, and according to this post on Jim's it's 37EBU.
      In Protz's book 300 Beers to try before you die he describes it as having 22 bitterness units, and he seems to be referring to IBU's.
      
      Leaves me :scratch:
      
      EDIT: Seems that they are/should be the same thing. Doesn't really explain the difference above though, so I'm still :scratch:

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      Thanks Hashie,
      
      Just been to the Coniston website which should probably have been my first port of call...never mind, found this quote attributed to Protz:
      
      Juicy malt and tart hops vie for attention in the mouth while the finish is tart and hoppy but well balanced by creamy malt. The bitterness rating is a substantial 36-38. The tangy fruit lingers on the back of the tongue until it develops a hint of orange liqueur.”
      Roger Protz - CAMRA
      
      So seems the 300 BTTBYD book is inaccurate.
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      oz11
      15 years ago
   6. Plans for 2nd BIAB

      by oz11, 15 years ago in BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members

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      Attempting to replicate an extract brew I did last year for a comparison. Initially I thought I'd try a stout, but have changed my mind for a best bitter type ale.
      The extract recipe was:
      Brew Length 23L
      2.5kg light spraymalt
      400g crystal
      
      Target 10g (60 min)
      Northdown 10g (60 min)
      Challenger 11g (60 min)
      Northdown 10g (15 min)
      
      Also dry hopped with 15g Target.
      (I know some people are :nup: with target, but I like it!)
      
      OG was 1042.
      
      Is there enough info here to scale down to a 10L mini-biab?
      I...

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      I have never heard the term, spray malt, before. I assume this obviously means dried extract?
      
      PP, as explained to me by my LHBS some years ago, it is Dried Light Malt Extract that has been treated (I guess spray dried) so that it is finer than standard DLME. It absorbs moisture like you wouldn't believe and I found it to be a real PITA when adding it after (K & K) boiling for hop extraction (I hope you get what I mean) before adding the can, as it tends to clump up. Has anyone got a thesaurus...
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      Two If By Sea
      15 years ago
   7. First BIAB attempt

      by oz11, 15 years ago in Brew Day Stories and/or Pics

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      Just finished cleaning and mopping-up after my first go at a BIAB, I followed the recipe for a mini Amarillo APA, aiming for about 10.5L into the feremnter.
      
      My previous brewing history is one kit (wherry) and two 20ish L extract brews.
      
      The quantites I used for my set up were:
      2012g Pale Malt
      406g Munich
      206g CaraAmber
      
      2624g total.
      
      This was dropped into a total water volume of 18.14L (not sure how I got to that figure now, but never mind!)
      
      I was using a Ritchie's Mash/Sparge bag in a...

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      Thanks for the plug PP.
      
      I hold back the steeping grains and add them in at mashout. I do this with all my beers, it improves the complexity of the beer as PP has said.
      
      Basically means you can taste the various grains instead of them becoming homogeneous.
      
      Schwartzbier brewed as an ale is a top beer :)
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      hashie
      15 years ago

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