BIAB Recipes

1. How to Post a BIAB Recipe

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   BIABrewer.info aims to make things as easy as possible for new all-grain brewers. To make your recipe of the greatest use to these brewers please use the template provided here .
   
   You will notice that the topic title begins with the beer style. Following this format will make it easy for others to search and find your recipe. A list of beer styles can be found here courtesy of the BJCP.
   
   The descriptive part of the template allows for both metric and U.S. units. ( The Calculator part is only...
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2. BIAB Recipe Template

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   OVERVIEW
   
   Style:
   Name:
   Yeast:
   Fermentation Temperature:
   Original Gravity:
   Total IBU's:
   Colour (EBC):
   Efficiency at End of Boil:
   Mash Length (mins):
   Boil Length (mins):
   Your Vessel Type (Pot/Keggle/Urn):
   Source/Credits:
   Notes/Instructions/Comments:
   
   Note that The Calculator download below is based on this recipe.
   
   Volumes etc.
   
   Your Vessel Volume (L or gal):
   Your Vessel Diameter (cm or in):
   Water Required (L or gal):
   Mash Temperature (C or F):
   Volume at End of Boil (L or gal):
   Volume into...
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3. La Muerta Imperial Stout clone

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   First post by alanwbrown, 5 years ago

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   I'm attempting my first brew and I've chosen an Imperial Stout as this is one of my favourite styles and the recipe I'm following looks fairly simple. I've based my biabacus on the below recipe and attempted to scale it down to fit my 33l kettle. This is my first attempt at using the spreadsheet and while I think I'm getting the hang of it, it would be good to get some feedback to let me know if I'm doing things correctly. Thanks!
   
   Batch Size: 5.00 gal
   Style: Specialty Beer (23A)
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   BIABacus PR1.3U - Imperial Stout - La Muerta clone - Batch A0 (Updated).xlsx alanwbrown There are a couple issues with the recipe as you've entered it. The first being the size of your kettle, I may be wrong but I doubt it has the same dimensions for height and diameter. BIABacus is going to use these numbers to, among other things, help you determine if your desired grain bill will fit into the pot without spilling over. The 2nd issue is the empty cell in section D labeled VAW. The Volume of...
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4. Russian River Consecration Clone

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   First post by Am33106, 6 years ago

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   Happy New Year's everyone. I'm looking for some help double checking my work on a clone recipe. The kit is from MoreBeer ( but lacks any real useful information about the recipe itself. The majority of what I learned was actually in the description of the recipe itself where they quote Vinnie's advice. After some searching around the internet I found an actual recipe with ingredients listed on a BeerSmith forum post ( Again we don't learn much about critical factors that give a recipe...

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   Thanks for the vote of confidence. It definitely does look like a challenging recipe and will be both my first sour and my first oaked beer. Good catch on the mash volume :clap: , I did intend to maximize the yield so I'll adjust that before I brew it. I do feel like I'm more comfortable with BIABacus after having used it quit a bit since being a member. The one that I haven't come across yet is fermentables in the fermenter and how/whether BIABacus accounts for this in some way. With this...
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5. Scaling a recipe using BIABacus

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   First post by brew.noob, 6 years ago

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   I've had my first successful (at least, so far) BIAB brew day and I'm looking for my next recipe. I decided I would go with a clone of a beer I like, and found this recipe:
   
   (PDF attached if link isn't viewable)
   
   It seems like it's not too much to take on, as in it's not an overly complicated recipe. However I'm currently only doing mini-BIAB with just a 19L pot so any recipe I find will need to be scaled down. I'm trying to learn how to utilize BIABacus to do this, and have attached my...

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   Top job Bob on your replies :thumbs: to brew.noob . (More below for brew.noob)
   
   One more thought. I do not know whether or not the BIABacus does account for water added to the boil when it compares GIB and OG to tie them to efficiency calculations. If it does, then it’s another great thing about it.
   
   Yes it does account for that so all good :salute:
   
   @b brew.noob ShorePoints talked about Section D. On the first two lines, you should only put one number. The best one to use is the Volume of...
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6. German Rauchbier Recipe

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   First post by Scott, 7 years ago

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   Has anyone else ever had German Rauchbier and discovered they love it? Schlenkerla has an awesome Maerzen Rauchbier, and we can get it in bottles here in the USA. It's very good stuff...!
   
   My wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary in late June of this year, and celebrated by going to Europe for two weeks. Spent 3 days in Bamberg (home of most German Rauchbiers)… Went to Schlenkerla's brewpub twice. Love their beer!!!
   
   I put together a recipe over a year ago to brew it myself and it...

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   Awesome Greg! Nice to hear. Let me know how it turns out.
   
   A couple guys at my homebrew group thought it good but slightly harsh... Not my opinion, theirs. Kind of like a person having their first IPA, but this is not “over the top” at all, in my opinion. If brewing “for the masses”, perhaps I would drop the Rauch a percentage and add it back in more Munich malt. But I like how it turned out very well.
   
   Just poured a glass... :drink: Very good to my taste. Anything I would try different?...
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7. Grapefruit Pale Ale

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   First post by JayP, 7 years ago

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   Hi, I would like some help with converting this recipe for BIAB. Apologies if the post is in the wrong spot. Thanks !!
   
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   Style: American Pale Ale
   Name: Grapefruit Pale Ale from Mad Fermentationist
   Yeast: US-05
   Fermentation Temperature: 20 C
   Original Gravity: 1.055
   Total IBU's: 46.8
   Colour (EBC): (dont care)
   Efficiency at End of Boil:
   Mash Length (mins): 60
   Boil Length (mins): 60
   Your Vessel Type (Pot/Keggle/Urn): 19l Stovepot
   Source/Credits:
   Notes/Instructions/Comments:
   
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   JayP - I would be just guessing, but maybe pull hops out before you put in your no-chill container...? :scratch: Think you already came to that conclusion.
   
   (EDIT - below adds more to PistolPatch’s Hop conversation...)
   
   On hop testing and research, yes PistolPatch has much of it right, and it is hard to make it exactly a science regardless of how hard I try. I developed a spreadsheet to track decline of hops’ AA over time caused by age and other storage factors. Worked pretty well except I...
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8. Indeed Brewing Co. - Day Tripper - Integrity?

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   First post by uvmnick, 7 years ago

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   Hey guys,
   
   Found this pale ale recipe on Indeed Brewing Co. website and plan to brew it this weekend. Hoping the recipe can be reviewed for integrity. I've attached the excel spreadsheet as well.
   
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   Style: Pale Ale
   Name: Day Tripper
   Yeast: Safale - US-05
   Fermentation Temperature: 67 F
   Original Gravity: 1.054
   Total IBU's: 45
   Colour (EBC): 12
   Efficiency at End of Boil: 81.5% ???
   Mash Length (mins): 60
   Boil Length (mins): 90
   Your Vessel Type (Pot/Keggle/Urn): Kettle...

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   Thanks uvmnick for the below and apologies for the slow response. Busy days :dunno:
   
   Had a quick glance over your posts and all looks good/great. I'll go through them slowly now...
   
   No worries on the transferring everything. Just don't make it a habit. Some people do and, on many styles and systems, it may not cause any problems but, it would not be regarded as best practice as a general rule. (In reality, there are probably some styles that benefit from it? We really don't have enough...
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9. American Rye Brown Ale - Integrity?

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   First post by uvmnick, 8 years ago

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   Hello everyone,
   
   I'm getting ready for my first BIAB and I'm trying to create this recipe. I completed the biabacus, which is attached. I was informed that I should try to get this reviewed for integrity, so I hope I've followed this process correctly. I was confused a bit on some items in how it relates the biabacus. For example, the original recipe calls for 13 lbs grain bill. But based on 'What I should Use ' the total is 8.75 lbs. Listed below I've used the figures that biabacus calculated...

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   Thanks for the follow up! Good stuff.
   
   Or I could just get a larger kettle!
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10. Rogue Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout - CYBI with John Maier

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    First post by BDP, 10 years ago

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    Hi,
    
    With deference to Mad_Scientist's thread on Rogue's Dead Guy ale, I thought I'd start a similar thread on their Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout, an American Stout style ale.
    
    The podcast is referenced in the attached BIABacus:
    BIABacus PR1.3T - American Stout - Rogue Shakespeare - Batch A1.xls
    
    I also referenced this link for some details of the recipe:
    
    Note that this recipe is scaled for my setup, so be sure to adjust to your own requirements, especially kettle dimensions & section X....

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    Hi Steve, yes I think so. But it's a bit like cooking I suppose. No two dishes will taste exactly alike. At least, that's the way I see it.
    
    Cheers!
    
    Thanks!
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11. Saison receipe

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    First post by mj05, 12 years ago

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    I’m thinking about brewing Saison next time (my “privet label IPA” is finishing secondary right now) and I was wondering if anybody could share BIABacus with me?!

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    Streamer - I stink at dry hopping. :idiot:
    
    For the Saison, I used hopsocks made of voile, same as the BIAB bag, but smaller. They were only in the secondary fermenter with 40 gms each of Amarillo and Simcoe on , then 10 gms each again on . The bag capacity was about 3 liters in volume, not packed tightly with expanded pellets. On removal for packaging day, I did let the bag drain back into the beer and compressed it a bit.
    
    I have also tried paint strainer bags and found too much stuff in the...
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12. Mac 'n' Jack's Amber clone (supposed to be close)

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    First post by SeattleVet, 11 years ago

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    Just kegged this batch. Tasted what was in the hydrometer vessel then drank the whole thing - it was good already, before conditioning/carbonation. Looks to be a pretty good batch. Initial and final gravity were right on the button. Quite an easy brew day too. (Maybe this one will help to make up for the 5 gallons I just dumped due to some type of nastiness getting in.)
    
    Hope I'm adding this right - added the recipe report and attached the file.
    
    BIABacus Pre-Release 1.3T RECIPE REPORT
    BIAB...

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    Yep. Bought a cabin on a river in the NW Georgia mountains. Little town called Ellijay. Nice little cabin with a 3-car garage! Lots of brewing room!
    
    I am brewing an Irish Red next week (same one I did a few years ago while traveling. I will follow up with the M&J as soon as I free up my fermenter. I still have only the one. I am working on building up my brewing tools again. But I have decided to stay with BIAB, even though I have the room to go bigger...
    
    I will post with results on both of...
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13. Hoegaarden clone

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    First post by mickspangle, 9 years ago

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    anyone got a good recipe for one? I'm going to try and put a recipe together, but if anyone has got a tried and tested one, I'd be very interested :-)
    TIA

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    well, this is what I did in the end. A friend lent me a Braumeister to play with, so I did it in that, but no reason why it wouldn't work with any other BIAB method.
    
    turned out nicely. certainly hoegaarden-ish. about to make it again, so it obviously worked :-)
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14. First biab attempt

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    First post by El Vagabundo, 8 years ago

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    Here is what I am looking at for my first biab. I am planning on following Ralphs guide to mini-biab. It looks like exactly what I'd like to do. I have played around with biabicus and have the file posted. I'd love to know if the numbers look alright. I was wondering what I would do if I wanted to use a different recipe. Let's say I wanted to make a porter. Would I assume that I would use around 5 pounds of grain (I am using 4.77 for the Pale Ale)? Could I just create a recipe of...

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    El Vagabundo,
    The latest info/advice I have seen on whirlfloc use is 1/4 tab in the final 5 minutes of the boil.
    You will not do harm using a half tab.
    In the past I followed advice that changed over time from an entire tab in the final 15 minutes of the boil, to 10 minutes, then half a tab at 10 minutes, then 5 minutes.
    At least it keeps going down, instead of up. :think:
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15. Making sense of BYO recipes

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    First post by Inconceivable, 8 years ago

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    Hi to all
    
    I've been trying to get to the bottom of the low integrity recipes on byo.com which has loads of impressive clone recipes I'd like to brew.
    
    I wanted to let the forum know my findings and see if anyone has any suggestions or revisions.
    
    So I want to brew these Fullers recipes here
    
    Scouring this and other forums, and the BYO site, the most credible evidence I can find to get close to determining water volumes is the answer from Jamil Zainasheff to Bundy in post #19 of this thread...

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    Thanks, Zoner! I thought it was confusing but I was hoping someone else might understand. C'est la vie :sad:
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16. Belgian Pale Ale. What do experts think?

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    First post by Juaolla, 8 years ago

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    Hi guys,
    
    After the summer stop, I go again with my stove-oven or mini-biab brewings.
    
    This season I have bought some new equipment, such as a bigger kettle, with 20 liters and a better thermometer, principally. I have some more different malts and hops and I am planning to do some Belgian beers. I also will be able of doing pure-biab. (I used an 8 liters one)
    
    So, I attach and I ask you to review my Biabacus file. I have adapted a brew from the book Brewing Classic Styles, with some free...

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    Hi again,
    
    I did the recipe and it is already in the fermentor. I got 1.050, what is almost the target. I think I still have to drop my evaporation rate a little more.
    I guess I am pushing my gas stove to the limits, but I started the boil with 12 liters and I managed a strong enough boiling.
    
    Anyway, I am planning to do a dubbel belgian beer, concretely, the recipe from Brewing Classic Styles, called Black Scapular Dubbel and drop it on the yeast cake of the Belgian Pale Ale.
    I would like...
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17. anyone got a good SMASH recipe using MO and EKG?

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    First post by mickspangle, 9 years ago

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    Hi all, I fancy doing a simple smash brew - nothing fancy, just an English style best bitter.
    
    I've got a fairly friendly brewer near me who is happy to supply malt, hops and yeast depending on what he's got in. He tends to have a lot of Maris Otter and a fair amount of EKG hops, so thought I'd use those...anyone got a recipe they'd like to share?
    
    thanks in advance.

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    just finished off the last bottle at the weekend. it was a good crisp brew. not huge amounts of subtlety or complexity in the flavour but a good brew nonetheless, and another notch on the belt in terms of brewdays. it fed well into the next brew which was a hopback summer lightning clone - much the same but more varied hops and more MO malt. I'd certainly recommend this recipe for someone who needs or wants to make a british bitter style SMASH. cheers all
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18. Basic Stout

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    First post by Muggy Dawson, 8 years ago

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    My first attempt at using the recipe template, it's for one I've brewed a few times now without much thought to accuracy of water quantities. I've plugged it into the BIABacus (also first time to use that with intent) to see what the water quantities really should be and my next brew day will follow the BIABacus, not the seat of my pants as all previous batches I've done of it. This kind of marks my transition from pissing about into taking things more seriously.
    
    This brew managed a first...

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    Thanks Scott. While I've repeated this a few times now I haven't put enough focus on water amounts, something BIABcus helped to pin down. Now I'll start playing with different hops and timings.
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19. Irish Red Ale Recipe

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    First post by OldGoat, 11 years ago

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    Anyone...
    
    I have been trying to adapt an Irish Red Ale to BIAB and I am hoping someone can take a look at my recipe to see if I am on the right track. I made some adjustments to attempt to place all the characteristics of an IRA approximately in the middle (average) for the style.
    
    Please let me know if this is a beer you would brew. This is only my second BIAB....don't want to screw it up.
    
    I have attached the BIABacus file as well. Please let me know if it appears that I am using the...

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    Yes, I did. Brewed it with an Irish friend of mine and both he and I were very pleased with it. Drank it all at his graduation party a couple years ago. I haven't had the opportunity to try it again, but it will be on the top of my list...
    
    Let me know what you think if you give it a shot. Cheers...
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20. two American Brews

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    First post by Brew4me, 9 years ago

    

    Here are two American style brews that I just completed.
    On the first brew, I was looking to do a pre-prohibition cream ale so I looked around learned some history and came up with this recipe. I also wanted to max out my 8 gallon pot so I did a variation with water added at boil and in fermenter. I usually don't do a volume variation but it is nice to know if you are willing to sacrifice a bit from pure BIAB (there are some great write ups on variation on the site) to gain a gallon or two you...
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21. Brewdog's Citra IPA - IPA

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    First post by tizoc, 9 years ago

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    I plan to brew this on Sunday 22nd. It is based on the recipe from page 55 (65 in PDF) of 
    
    Edit: New version changes (among other smaller things) the hop schedule (10, 5 and 0), and adds Columbus (75mins) for bittering.
    
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    In the PDF it says it has an IBU of 70, but BIABacus says 32 (also, 70 is what I got from their Chinook IPA, using double the amount of hops, with similar AA%), so what BIABacus says makes more sense to me.
    
    I changed mash and boil times to 90 minutes...

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    Jmstroup - See this link for another version of DesChutes Fresh Squeezed recipe - it isn't perfect, but it might help.
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22. I Heart Me - IPA

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    First post by Mad_Scientist, 13 years ago

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    Brewing my competition beer atm. What happens when you walk away from a boil with 9 1/2 ounces of first wort hops? A near boil over of course. :lol:
    I am slowly raising my hop spider, and the bag gives way from my flange. Into the boil she goes...
    
    Good thing I'm no chilling. I just won't be squeezing this hop bag, it is going nuts in the kettle.
    
    This is for a club IPA showdown and the best of show goes to represent our club ECHO at the ECBF homebrewers competition.
    
    Wish me luck ya'll....

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    Just finished my 1st 5 gallon keg, so here is a photo of a 3 ounce draw from the 2nd keg.
    
    Outside on the porch railing
    1st LODO I Heart Me ale.jpg
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23. recommendation for recipe books

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    First post by mickspangle, 9 years ago

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    not sure if this is the right place to put this topic, so please move it if you think it ought to be elsewhere.
    
    I was after recommendations for a book of recipes. I've got the Graham Wheeler book already, which is great, but it does tend to focus on classic british styles. Can anyone recommend a book with viable recipes for some of the more exotic or modern styles? eg wheat beer, saison, lagers etc.
    
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    One of my early influences in brewing was a book that has been updated called Clone Brews. It has a lot of beers from around the world in a lot of styles. He also has a few charts that are helpful. Biggest part of this book I liked was the recipes are in extract, minimash and all grain.
    I moved on from that book and bought a few books on styles of beer I like, One was just about Marzens, one on Pale Ales, etc.
    After that I crossed referenced the information I was getting about individual styles...
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24. Raison D'Saison

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    First post by blu_afro, 9 years ago

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    G'day, I'm almost at end of this brew (from Brewing Classic Styles p207), have just dry hopped.
    
    Question: The original recipe called for 1.056 OG and actual was 1.070 (did a pretty fine crush) my understanding is that I should have added 5.0L at into fermenter at beginning of fermentation (as per calcs derived from Section N) to bring the SG down, would love if someone could confirm this approach. By the way, I didn't do that and will just put up with higher ABV, as have just tasted it as I...

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    Question: The original recipe called for 1.056 OG and actual was 1.070 (did a pretty fine crush) my understanding is that I should have added 5.0L at into fermenter at beginning of fermentation (as per calcs derived from Section N) to bring the SG down, would love if someone could confirm this approach.
    
    Yes, that's correct. 5L in Section N does dilute to 1.056/7 in Section O.
    MS
    
    Thanks MS
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25. Brewdog cook book

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    First post by rickoles, 10 years ago

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    Brewdog has released a PDF with 215 of their own beer recipes... This is amazing and I hope we see other breweries doing the same thing. See the link below:
    
    Have a good weekend :)

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    FYI the 2017 version has been released by the scots :D
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