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Extract/Partial Mash Brewing / Honey - add in boil or at flame out?

« on: April 10, 2013, 04:07:04 pm »

I agree with Joe, I brew a honey wheat and all the honey gets added at flame out and retains a nice flavor once packaged and with the honeypot you should be good.

The one thing I'll add is that honey will ferment out and dry the beer quite a bit at 2lbs. You might consider adding in some melanoiden to add back a little body, maybe 4-6oz. Those reuse the beer may be too thin and dry

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Kegging and Bottling / Bottle Labels

« on: April 09, 2013, 06:09:52 pm »

I do this but I assure you if they get wet they become ruined

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Hop Growing / Second Year Hops

« on: April 09, 2013, 05:56:32 pm »

Jealous! Here in the north of Illinois it is still butt cold, daffodils aren't even an inch yet! My hops are still sleeping:(

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All Grain Brewing / Gravity adjusting

« on: April 09, 2013, 05:54:14 pm »

I start by scaling everything equally but if I find something off I'll then tweak individually to try and improve it to my liking

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All Things Food / Hot tip

« on: April 09, 2013, 05:51:41 pm »

Hold the salad please
but bring me a little sugar.   

^^THIS^^

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Equipment and Software / Hydrometer question

« on: April 08, 2013, 10:42:17 am »

There is a temperature conversion chart in Ray Daniel's book Designing Great Beer

Higher temps = lower readings

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Equipment and Software / Hydrometer question

« on: April 07, 2013, 05:11:10 pm »

Are you hitting your volumes into the primary. With the weather changing its possible your boil off rate is changing.

Do you take a pre boil gravity? Is that consistent? If so then the change is coming from the boil forward. If the pre boil is a more efficient reading then you're doing something better with your mash process.

Just throwing out ideas.....

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Equipment and Software / Hydrometer question

« on: April 07, 2013, 03:38:25 pm »

Do you crush your own grain? If not, it's possible the supplier adjusted their mill and you got a better crush

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Equipment and Software / Hydrometer question

« on: April 07, 2013, 02:12:33 pm »

Sometimes the paper will slip:(

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Equipment and Software / hop screen

« on: April 06, 2013, 07:33:43 am »

LOL! Yup, my set up will definitely not handle 100 gallons and 5 lbs of hops!

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Equipment and Software / hop screen

« on: April 05, 2013, 04:34:01 pm »

Not sure if this will work with your set up but it's an in-sinkerator flange for a disposal clipped to the kettle with a 5 gallon paint strainer bag inserted into it and clipped. Works great!

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Ingredients / ACIDULATED MALTS

« on: April 04, 2013, 06:43:33 pm »

Curious to know if you've brewed this yet and which way you went with it

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General Homebrew Discussion / Carbonation

« on: April 02, 2013, 07:00:55 pm »

2-3 weeks at 70f is a good place to start, if not done then add a week.

Assuming you primed properly bottle carbonating/conditioning is a pretty fool proof process and only requires time and temp to do its job.

Patience will reward you!

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All Grain Brewing / Whirlpooling

« on: April 02, 2013, 06:55:39 pm »

Do you use findings like Irish moss? They help coagulate the proteins so they clump up and fall out during the whirlpool.

Also, when siphoning be sure you are not sucking up the trub, keep the end slightly above the bottom of the kettle. You can also use a hop sack as a filter on the end of the cane

Mind you, you won't get it all but a great deal better

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Extract/Partial Mash Brewing / Dry Hop in Primary?

« on: March 28, 2013, 02:52:06 pm »

I dry hop in primary as well and am typically using 2-3 oz for 5-7 days.

If I use more than 3oz I go 3-5 days at most. Then I cold crash a few days and bottle.