Paleman
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Quite enjoying my partial mash brewing at the moment. Ive given birth to about 6 mini mashes, since my days of K&K. My K&K's were serious stuff, steeped grains, rehydrated Safale yeast's, and so on. I just couldnt get that taste i wanted.
I have stepped up to mashing grains, hopping, adding malt extract and hop flavouring/aroma, and also using liquid yeasts. And my beers have improved ten notches. They actually taste fresh, very nice, no twang, in fact close to premium I will say i am content............but not fulfilled !!
So Allgrain !
How many more notches can i expect to step up, if i decide to rid my beers of extract ? And mash fully.......Im even in thoughts of growing my own hops, and using fresh hop cones/flowers. But on the main, will still use pellets as fresh as possible.
Is there a marked flavour difference. Enough to warrant the outlay of purchasing all the gear from scratch.
To those that have recently stepped up from partial mashing to allgrain, or still do both, what are the comparisons ?
Sorry for the brain pick, But big decisions have to be made. :chug:
Thanks all.
I have stepped up to mashing grains, hopping, adding malt extract and hop flavouring/aroma, and also using liquid yeasts. And my beers have improved ten notches. They actually taste fresh, very nice, no twang, in fact close to premium I will say i am content............but not fulfilled !!
So Allgrain !
How many more notches can i expect to step up, if i decide to rid my beers of extract ? And mash fully.......Im even in thoughts of growing my own hops, and using fresh hop cones/flowers. But on the main, will still use pellets as fresh as possible.
Is there a marked flavour difference. Enough to warrant the outlay of purchasing all the gear from scratch.
To those that have recently stepped up from partial mashing to allgrain, or still do both, what are the comparisons ?
Sorry for the brain pick, But big decisions have to be made. :chug:
Thanks all.