Creating Your Own Recipes

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Creating Your Own Recipes
1. Belgian Strong Dark Ale, work in progress. Advice?
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  First post by Dski, 13 years ago
  
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  It's the first time I've brewed a beer of this style, and my first higher gravity BIAB. Any advice would be appreciated.
  
  I am using a crown urn, 33.5 diameter by 49cm height, 40L total volume.
  This batch is intended to make 17L volume into fermenter.
  
  I intend to add the candi sugar and cane sugar later on during fermentation. I'll be using whatever Belgian type yeast I can get my hands on.
  
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  Brewer: Dski
  Style: Belgian Dark Strong...
  
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  Dski,
  While I have limited experience brewing Belgian strong ales, I offer some information I have collected in my research.
  I agree with your information about rising temperatures, brew like a monk - Stan hieronimous?) discusses this in some detail.
  Also the addition of candy syrup should be done during fermentation when the Sg has gotten lower than the OG by the amount of Sg that the sugar will add. OR, once fermentation has begun, add the sugar bit by bit.
  Adding it into the kettle will...
  
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2. BIABabacus scaling?
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  First post by James, 13 years ago
  
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  Hi all,
  
  Sorry still pretty new to the Abacus spreadsheet which seems to be very good. I thought I'd try the NRM's Amarillo APA as a starter but can only see a recipe using a 70l vessel - I've got 50 and was hoping to bottle about 23/25l. How should I set about scaling this in the spreadsheet - is there a user guide I've missed?
  
  Thanks
  James
  
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  Ah, thanks. I'll try that later.
  
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3. BIAB #2 advise requested
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  First post by BungBrew, 13 years ago
  
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  I am planning my 2nd BIAB and would like to put down an American Brown Ale.
  
  Looking at Beersmith I found a recipe I have based mine on but would love some feedback from the experienced brewers out there.
  
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  Bungendore Brown Ale - Batch 1
  
  Recipe Overview
  Brewer: Bungbrew
  Style: 10C American Brown Ale
  Source Recipe Link:...
  
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  WOW! I'm very impressed with your BIABacus there BungBrew. Everything is filled out to the tee.
  
  I would go for it and let us know how it goes.
  
  The only thing I see is the Whirlfloc should be added with 5 mins. left of the boil.
  
  :peace:
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4. Three in One
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  First post by shibolet, 13 years ago
  
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  now i realize that i might get virtually stoned (or actually get a rock thrown through my window all the way from Australia to Israel) because this recipe does not conform to forum standards at all but i'll put this out there anyway,
  
  Unfortunately, i don't have as much time to brew as i would like to have. so i try to get more than one beer out of every brew day. my plan for my next brew is to get three beers out of one brew. i'll brew 60 liters and split it three ways to get 1 English, 1...
  
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  i am planning on adding kettle hops. noble hops like Perle or Hallertauer.
  i usually do sugar additions in the fermenter, at least for Belgians. i does help to dry them out.
  
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5. Working backwards with grain bill.
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  First post by BrewBagMan, 13 years ago
  
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  Hi everyone,
  
  I recently messed up when ordering grain for a recipe from Mitch Steel's IPA book.
  
  What I have is exactly 4KG of pale malt. So the question is; with this amount of grain how do I work out my water volumes in the BIABacus if I wish to achieve an OG of 1.057?
  
  Sorry for the silly (and hopefully not too annoying) question.
  
  Great to be back on here after a little hiatus.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Lee
  
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  I wouldn't be embarrassed Lee as nearly all other brewing programs are set up the reverse... You type in the quantity of your ingredients and it tells you what OG that will give. The BIABacus uses a more a more practical/sensible approach. It says what OG do you want to achieve and then displays what weights you need to purchase.
  
  The latter approach works really well in nearly all real life situations. Yours is one of the few exceptions but is pretty easily fixed as you have found.
  
  And......
  
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6. Simcoe recipe required
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  First post by Brendandrage, 13 years ago
  
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  Hi all,
  I have a heap of simcoe I purchased with some other bits and am looking for a suggested recipe.
  I believe it should be similar to northern brewer if that helps
  Anyway I look forward to hearing your recipes
  Cheers
  
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  Simcoe does okay by itself. Weyerbacher's Double Simcoe is a pretty good showcase for the hop characteristics, but it's an imperial IPA. It's good, but not great. I can find it everywhere, but of course I also live near the brewery. Not sure if it's avail down under, but I'm sure you could find a decent clone if you looked.
  
  If that's the only hop I had, I'd SMaSH it like mally says.
  
  Something like this ...
  
  Original Gravity (OG): 1.067
  IBU's (Tinseth): 75
  Bitterness to Gravity Ratio: 1.12...
  
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7. First BIAB!
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  First post by the-erl, 13 years ago
  
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  Hi, this is going to be my first BIAB so I thought I'd better post it to see if anyone could see any glaring mistakes? I've put the recipe together myself using extract experience and looking at other recipes.
  
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  Pan Galactic Smash
  
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  Brewer: The Earl
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  Original Gravity (OG):...
  
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  Thats a great tip, cheers PP :salute:
  
  I'll grab one before my next brew! I'll let you know how it goes :thumbs:
  
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8. LINKS TO BIABacus RECIPES
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  First post by PistolPatch, 13 years ago
  
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  Good idea Josh :peace:,
  
  A few annoying problems though :sad:. In the new site structure, recipe files will have integrity levels. In other words, they will have been through a process. The first part might seem ridiculous but it involves simply having the file name written in a certain order...
  
  BIABacus Version Number / Beer Style / Recipe Name / Brewer / Batch Number / Modifier
  
  Once that is done, then the recipe would be looked at for basic faults or errors. Corrections or suggestions would...
  
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  It'll be fine Josh but if I want to place a good recipe how will I find it in a year? Or,if I am a reader here, how will I find the best APA recipe? Or, if I want to improve a recipe, how many posts is that going to take up in this thread?
  
  Unless you are willing to constantly categorise, edit and change the first post here with the most up to date recipes, in some sort of structured order, then it could be a problem. See what I mean?
  
  I do like the way you are thinking though ;),
  PP
  
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9. New to recipe design - your feedback wanted please :-)
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  First post by Algernon, 13 years ago
  
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  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? There are three in total. Should I have posted them separately?
  
  The Pacifist – Pacific Pale Ale (EDIT: Length 23L)
  Grain Bill:
  4kg MO
  500g Pale Wheat Malt
  Hops:
  60 mins --Pacific Jade 20g 12.5%aa &...
  
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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 caused your woes. Firstly for the reason you gave and secondly, it is quite probable that the 5 L containers aren't even 5 L. You'd be surprised at how inaccurate labeling and markings are. The...
  
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10. Saison
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  First post by Brendandrage, 13 years ago
  
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  Hi all,
  in thinking about my next brew and following pistols advice i thought i might for once in my life do some preparation first :headhit:
  Anyway im thinking id really like to try something different and came across this saison recipe and thought id ask for some ideas and also how can i scale this to my system???
  I appreciate any comments or another suggested recipe version.
  
  Saison Du Mont All-Grain
  Big Brew 2009
  
  For a 5.5 gallon (21 L) yield
  O.G.: 1.056
  F.G.: 1.008
  IBU: 21...
  
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  Thanks for the replies and advice, ill report back on this one. :shoot:
  
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11. Q on using the BIABacus to design your own recipe
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  First post by metalhophead, 13 years ago
  
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  Hey guys. I know that the biabicus is for scaling down recipes, but as long as you plug in your O.G. it will figure the correct amount of grains No matter what you have in the original grain bill design right? Like I just used the biabicus from a recipe I scaled down and plugged in the grains I wanted to use, but the amounts on the left are almost the same as the right, but the original recipe had a eobv of 6 gallons. I think I'm making sense?
  
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  Urgh. I didn't mean to attach my biabacus....My bad Pistolpach.
  
  Admin Edit: The Biabacus file has been moved to the Use this thread to convert recipes to suit your equipment... Thread Here
  
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12. All Galaxy IPA
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  First post by metalhophead, 13 years ago
  
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  Hey guys. I've done a couple successful mini biabs and I thought I would give my own recipe a try. I know that I like Galaxy hops and that I want a beer with 65 ibu's and 6.5 abv. I used another biab recipe as a template and came up with this. How does it look? My only question is about the crystal. I know there are many different levels of them. I want a nice hoppy beer but with a hint of sweet in the malt. If you could give me any suggestions I would love to hear them.
  
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  Hey guys. I keep reading that using citra for bittering will give you some funky flavors. If you don't use a bittering hop and add everything in the last 20 min what will happen? I do have some left over Chinook could I bitter with Chinook.
  
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13. Brett primary fermentation
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  First post by thughes, 14 years ago
  
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  Has anybody done a pure brett (brettanomyces) beer, no normal beer yeast (sacchromyces) used? Brett is supposed to work just like sac for primary fermentation, producing some nice fruity and tropical esters but not the funk it's normally known for when used as a secondary fermentation yeast. The only real concern is very dry beer because brett will eat sugars that normal sac can't.
  
  Chad from Crooked Stave Brewery (who use brett as a primary in almost all of their beers) wrote a fantastic...
  
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  I didn't say that was the ONLY brew I had going..... ;)
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14. SMaSH combos
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  First post by thughes, 14 years ago
  
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  Vienna malt + Styrian Goldings hops = Yummy!
  
  That is all.
  
  ---Todd
  
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  thughes
  
  Last year at the local competition. The brew master split open a 50 lb. sack of Styrian Goldings hops. They were giving away as much as you could carry! I got about 10 pounds of it! I have been using it everywhere I could. So now I have to get some Vienna and give it a whirl! Sorry you weren't there!
  
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15. White Rabbit Dark Ale clone
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  First post by Aces high, 14 years ago
  
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  I designed this recipe on friday night and brewed saturday morning. Australians my know the White Rabbit dark ale. Ive pieced together the recipe from a few other places and while its not exact it should be interesting attempt at a clone.
  
  Ive guessed that its similar to a Northern English Brown Ale, but i may be way off here. Different websites call it everything from a ale to a porter and their own website doesn't call it anything other than a dark ale, so Im not exactly sure the style...
  
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  I made the wife taste this out of the fermenter the other day. She said it tasted medicine-e. Which I can understand now that she has said it.
  
  I reall reckon its that wyeast ringwood ale yeast that has done the damage.
  
  I did a search on medicine taste in beer and its apparently due to something in the yeast reacting with bleach cleaners (according to John Palmer) But I use sodium percarbonate & then idophor on my fermenters, so i dont know.
  
  If the white rabbit clone is a bit off then you...
  
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16. Getting that clean crisp hoppy taste ...
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  First post by Gyro, 14 years ago
  
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  Can anyone give me some sort of guide or indicator on how to get a clean hoppy crispness to a beer?
  
  The last few recipes I've made have been heavily hopped, but they turn out more marmalade-y / fruity that hoppy. Most of the time, this has been using Cascade, but no way are they like a Little Creatures or Sierra Nevada !
  
  Have I been putting too much in for too long and not enough at the end, or is it dry hopping that REALLY helps ? Any tips/suggestions on how much, when, and what sort of hop...
  
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  got it.Thanks.
  BTW, Todd, i'm looking at brewing a 100% Brett APA...
  
  I'm thinking the same thing! I had a bottle of Brooklyn Brewing's Matilda (100% Brett) and harvested the yeast when I was done. I've got a nice big starter built up and thinking about pitching it into a simple Pale Ale, just for fun. :thumbs:
  
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17. Accidental Hopping Experiment
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  First post by non.operational, 14 years ago
  
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  Hi, just thought I would ask you guys about an error I made when brewing this weekend.
  
  I was brewing an english pale / golden ale, loosely based on a recipe for Deuchars IPA, and I got my hop additions wrong.
  
  The recipe was:
  OG1.042
  Yeast: White Labs Burton Ale
  79% Maris Otter
  7% Light Crystal
  5% Wheat Malt
  9% Demerera Sugar
  60 Minutes: 16 IBU of Willamette
  5 Minutes: 3.7 IBU of Willammette, 3.3 IBU of Styrian Goldings
  0 Minutes: Same as 5min addition
  Total IBU: 30
  
  The recipe I used was...
  
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  My mistake - 5 UK gallons is 22.75L, my pot is 19L, so I usually end up with about 13L.
  
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18. Recipe suggestions for leftovers
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  First post by jamesp, 14 years ago
  
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  hey new BIAB brewer here...I have some ingredients leftover from steeping/adding to extract brews. Any ideas for a recipe using my leftovers?
  
  Malts.. I have Crystal 40L, 120L, Special B 140l & Pale Chocolate 200L. About 400g of each (just under 1 lb)
  This might be the wrong thing to say... but I also have some pale DME that I don't mind adding if that helps.
  Hops... Willamette, EKG, Fuggles, Cascade. about 50g ea (just under 2oz).
  
  No yeast, have to order that.
  
  FWIW, I'll be using a small 15l...
  
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  jamesp,I'm not sure what is available in your area(Cranbrook?) but Hopdawgs in Vernon has great service and selection of all things brewing!
  Welcome
  
  I'm actually in Invermere. there are a couple of wine making UBrew stores here but they don't do beer & don't seem very interested in ordering beer stuff. I've ordered from Hopdawgs & they seemed good - good range & quick.
  
  Not sure what's down in Cranbrook, but its nearly 2hrs drive so its easier & cheaper just to order & pay the shipping from...
  
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19. Holgate Hopinator (American IPA)
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  First post by stoutgirl5, 14 years ago
  
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  Hi all,
  
  I've never really tried to come up with my own attempt at a clone before but want to give the legendary hopinator a go.
  
  Pretty sure they use Vienna malt and as hops go im thinking amarillo, centennial, citra and chinook but i could be way off :think:
  
  Any ideas/suggestions?
  
  Bek
  
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  I hope you will have this bottled by the 19th Bek :drink:.
  
  AS I've said before, I'm not skilled at designing recipes. I'm wondering though why the proportion of Vienna malt is so high? I have no idea if that is a right or wrong thing to do but it was something that I hadn't noticed before in an IPA.
  
  Looking forward to the book club, sorry, beer club meeting on the 19th :lol:.
  
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20. Adjusting Efficiency for Big Beers
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  First post by nu_brew, 14 years ago
  
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  Thanks to all the help here I've managed half a dozen BIABs or more... so now that I'm completely hooked and am always planning a few brews ahead (I've got a couple fermenting and a couple cubed).
  
  I wanna go big!
  
  I'm planning a Russian Imperial Stout about 1.100 OG.
  
  My efficiency is usually about 79-82% let's call it 80 average.
  
  I understand that efficiency drops with bigger beers,so, should I drop it down to 65?/70?75?
  
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  This is a really grey area nu_brew. Basically there is not enough real data around on this. Most of the formulas we have are extrapolations of what happens at normal gravities.
  
  Some weird stuff can happen at high gravities. For example, a few weeks ago we tried experimenting on this side of things. We had two identical grain bills of 15kg each.
  
  Batch A was mashed in with 38 L of water
  Batch B was mashed in with 32 L of water
  
  You would think that the gravity of Batch B would be higher right?...
  
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21. Citra hops
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  First post by thughes, 14 years ago
  
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  I love Citra!
  
  That is all,
  
  ---Todd
  
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  thughes,
  
  I just finished a Amarillo/Citra APA. It was wonderful. It was my all Chinook IPA that I normally use to substitute hops in for testing. (SMASH) I did a all Citra (Citra ass down) it was super. I then did the same recipe with both Citra and Amarillo just using up odd packages. Again it was superb! I made a Citra hops vodka too! Good Stuff!
  
  Same here I usually do a M.O./Vienna or Munich/Crystal 60 Chinook APA dry hopped with cascade...but I prefer the Citra dry hop.
  
  Really I have...
  
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22. Northern Brewer hops
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  First post by Gyro, 14 years ago
  
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  Suggestions for use; ie. what type of beer do they work well in?
  
  Could I use them in an IPA/Blonde Ale...?
  
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  After fermentation is over (two weeks?) Use some for dry hopping. One ounce is good!
  
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23. Converting extract to BIAB
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  First post by Gyro, 14 years ago
  
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  ..or in my case Mini BIAB...
  
  So, one of the best beers I've brewed this year was an extract Weizenbock. I did a pre-boil tea for half an hour with malts, and then a 10 litre boil using extract. This was topped up with water in the FV to make 20 litres.
  
  I'll dig out the recipe, but is there a formula/percentage way to convert this to all grain...?
  
  Cheers,
  G
  
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  Cool, thanks. I'll hava jig around when I can and then come back and post what I think would be the grain version. Have been at a beer festival for the last two days mind, so need a bit of recovery time .... !
  
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24. Increasing sweetness to balance bitterness - help please
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  First post by jakethesnake559, 14 years ago
  
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  Hi fellow brewers,
  
  Was looking for some advice for improvements to the following brew...
  
  Maxi-BIAB APA
  
  Grain Bill (5900g)
  4800g (76%) Simpsons Ale - Maris Otter
  1000g (17%) JWM Light Munich
  300g (5%) Weyermann Carahell
  100g (2%) JWM Malted Wheat
  
  Mash in at 65C for 90 mins.
  2 x dunk sparge (progressively added to the boil).
  90min boil.
  
  Hop Schedule
  20g Chinook 60min
  20g Cascade 10min
  20g Citra (hop tea into fermenter with dilution water)
  10g Citra (dry hop after primary ferm...
  
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  Thanks Stux and Todd!!
  I will replace the carahell with a slightly stonger chrystal and see how it goes.
  
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25. Feedback on my first BIAB
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  First post by Snews Brews, 15 years ago
  
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  Style: Pilsner
  Name: Pilsner
  Yeast: SAF Lager 34/70
  Fermentation Temperature: 11˚C
  Original Gravity: 1.047
  Total IBU's: 38
  Efficiency at End of Boil: 81.6%
  Mash Length(mins): 90
  Boil Length(mins): 90
  Your Vessel Type : 25L Pot (32cm diam, 31cm height)
  
  Grains - Colours - Percentages and/or Weight (g or oz)
  3000.00gm Premium Pilsner Malt (Weyermann) (2.5 EBC) 50%
  1400.00gm Bohemian Pilsner Malt (Weyermann) (3.4 EBC) 23.3%
  1400.00 gm Pale Malt (Barrett Burston) (3.9 EBC) 23.3%
  200.00 gm Cara...
  
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  LOL! Snews did you bottle today or drink all the bottles today? :lol: Great to hear it is coming along nicely :thumbs:.
  
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