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Get her pregnant, that'll stop her.
GENIUS! I also get to have some fun doing it
Get her pregnant, that'll stop her.
This beer gets my vote without hesitation, It was on tap at the swap day at my place last year and after that i wouldn't give Smurto his keg back until it was empty i then managed to get another keg off him which lasted a grand total of 8 days in my special care
AWESOME hop flavour, the bitterness was just to my taste as well. I brewed this the other day and I'm very much looking forward to kegging (and drinking it of course) so I can make some more Going to be on tap at my place for the foreseeable future.
edit: spelling
Yeah, that's what I'm going with too. Thanks.What's your pre boil volume set to? What does it say the OG will be? That is more relevant than the pre boil gravity.
Edit: if it's saying 3.3% Abv then it's definetly coming in low, those grains are all fine, i use the same when using weyerman malts in beer alchemy. You can adjust the OG and it will automatically increase the grain bill accordingly.
Last Friday I racked to secondary for my cold conditioning stage. I set my stc1000 to 1c, however my fridge is rather old and is sitting at about 4.5deg. At this temperature is it still doing its thing?
Also, come Friday, should I set my fridge back to 18c so I can bottle at a warmer temp? Or is bottling at 4-5c ok?
Thanks in advance!
One more thing, when mixing up my bulk priming glucose mixture, how much water should I be mixing it with? I'm aiming for about 2.2 vol co2, with a 24L batch - used the online calculator.
I've been browsing around for quite a while in the hope of not having to ask this question...i so hate being a newbie at something. But here goes:
The recipe database on this forum confuses me a bit...for example Dr Smurto's Golden Ale recipe page lists all the grains and hops necessary to make this beer. But it doesn't say "how". Let me explain...given my newness to all of this, and having done a few kit beers, i'd like to try DSGA as my first full extract brew. It's great that the recipe has an extract version, but i'm keen to know some missing info. For example:
1. How much water do I put in the pot to steep my Crystal grain?
2. What temperature should I be steeping at, and for how long?
3. I plan on using a grain bag, should I sparge the grain, and if so, with how much water?
Do I just follow something like John Palmer's How to Brew? Section 2 suggests steeping 500gm of grain in 4 litres of 70'ish degree water for 30 minutes in a grain bag (which I have). It doesn't suggest sparging though, rather just squeezing the bag after you remove it.
Oh and lastly, the crystal grain i've purchased says it's "cracked". Does that mean it's ready to go as is into the grain bag? Or do i need to mill/crush it some more first?
I've been browsing around for quite a while in the hope of not having to ask this question...i so hate being a newbie at something. But here goes:
The recipe database on this forum confuses me a bit...for example Dr Smurto's Golden Ale recipe page lists all the grains and hops necessary to make this beer. But it doesn't say "how". Let me explain...given my newness to all of this, and having done a few kit beers, i'd like to try DSGA as my first full extract brew. It's great that the recipe has an extract version, but i'm keen to know some missing info. For example:
1. How much water do I put in the pot to steep my Crystal grain?
2. What temperature should I be steeping at, and for how long?
3. I plan on using a grain bag, should I sparge the grain, and if so, with how much water?
Do I just follow something like John Palmer's How to Brew? Section 2 suggests steeping 500gm of grain in 4 litres of 70'ish degree water for 30 minutes in a grain bag (which I have). It doesn't suggest sparging though, rather just squeezing the bag after you remove it.
Oh and lastly, the crystal grain i've purchased says it's "cracked". Does that mean it's ready to go as is into the grain bag? Or do i need to mill/crush it some more first?
I've been browsing around for quite a while in the hope of not having to ask this question...i so hate being a newbie at something. But here goes:
The recipe database on this forum confuses me a bit...for example Dr Smurto's Golden Ale recipe page lists all the grains and hops necessary to make this beer. But it doesn't say "how". Let me explain...given my newness to all of this, and having done a few kit beers, i'd like to try DSGA as my first full extract brew. It's great that the recipe has an extract version, but i'm keen to know some missing info. For example:
1. How much water do I put in the pot to steep my Crystal grain?
2. What temperature should I be steeping at, and for how long?
3. I plan on using a grain bag, should I sparge the grain, and if so, with how much water?
Do I just follow something like John Palmer's How to Brew? Section 2 suggests steeping 500gm of grain in 4 litres of 70'ish degree water for 30 minutes in a grain bag (which I have). It doesn't suggest sparging though, rather just squeezing the bag after you remove it.
Oh and lastly, the crystal grain i've purchased says it's "cracked". Does that mean it's ready to go as is into the grain bag? Or do i need to mill/crush it some more first?
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