Posted: 1/17/2012 7:48:46 PM EDT
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im going to use: 1 can Black Tower Porter HME 1 can Creamy Brown UME going to steep Muntons Crystal 60L Malt Chocolate Malt and MAYBE Danstar Nottingham Yeast my question is what amounts for the grain for 2.5 gallons?  either way, the ratio will be 75% Muntons Crystal and 25 % Chocolate Malt unless some suggests something to go with it(like a hops to throw in at 15-20 before flame out). the idea is to crutch the flavors that will already be there. so... wht do u think oh beer gods?  ETA: i bought a bag of corn sugar and im wondering if i can go 1:1 with the "corn syrup solids" booster that the mr beer is |
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Go plug your info into beer calculus and play with the amounts. There are general rules of thumb for how much adjunct steeping grains you can add. I think you want to keep their totals to less than 15% of the fermentables. I could be wrong about that percentage. Recommendations can be found by googling. |
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Quoted: Go plug your info into beer calculus and play with the amounts. There are general rules of thumb for how much adjunct steeping grains you can add. I think you want to keep their totals to less than 15% of the fermentables. I could be wrong about that percentage. Recommendations can be found by googling. FUU, i didnt realize steeping and partial mash were synonymous  |
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Quoted: They're not. Some adjunct grains don't require a mash. They just require you to throw them in some water and bring the temperature up to 170. Then you're done. Add the malt extract and boil. Quoted: Go plug your info into beer calculus and play with the amounts. There are general rules of thumb for how much adjunct steeping grains you can add. I think you want to keep their totals to less than 15% of the fermentables. I could be wrong about that percentage. Recommendations can be found by googling. FUU, i didnt realize steeping and partial mash were synonymous Mashing is required for lots of other grains like 2 row. Mashing requires you to mix strike water and grain such that the resulting temperature is 148-160. You then hold it at those temps for an hour. What you will want to do, is pick some steeping grains, put them in a strainer, add them to cold water, bring the water to 170, dunk the grains a bit, and discard them. Now add your malt extract and hops and boil. Since your using hopped malt extract, you won't want to boil that. You may even want to consider adding more hops since you seem to have a lot of malt compared to hops. |
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Quoted: steep and remove, bring to boil, add extra hops 20ish minutes..maybe half hour before flame out, add extracts.Quoted: They're not. Some adjunct grains don't require a mash. They just require you to throw them in some water and bring the temperature up to 170. Then you're done. Add the malt extract and boil. Quoted: Go plug your info into beer calculus and play with the amounts. There are general rules of thumb for how much adjunct steeping grains you can add. I think you want to keep their totals to less than 15% of the fermentables. I could be wrong about that percentage. Recommendations can be found by googling. FUU, i didnt realize steeping and partial mash were synonymous Mashing is required for lots of other grains like 2 row. Mashing requires you to mix strike water and grain such that the resulting temperature is 148-160. You then hold it at those temps for an hour. What you will want to do, is pick some steeping grains, put them in a strainer, add them to cold water, bring the water to 170, dunk the grains a bit, and discard them. Now add your malt extract and hops and boil. Since your using hopped malt extract, you won't want to boil that. You may even want to consider adding more hops since you seem to have a lot of malt compared to hops. i realize what the 2 are, i just thought the steeping was simply a "mini-mash" and not tea baggingi think 1/2-3/4oz of UK fuggles will do it. so.. with 2lbs 6oz of extract (38oz), i should steep ~1/2lb of grain? but if the sugars added arent all fermentable, doesnt that change the math to be used? i was thinking of using as much as a full lb of grain. |
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Quoted: i got the hops fuggles and kent goldings, 1oz of eachQuoted: Quoted: They're not. Some adjunct grains don't require a mash. They just require you to throw them in some water and bring the temperature up to 170. Then you're done. Add the malt extract and boil. Quoted: Go plug your info into beer calculus and play with the amounts. There are general rules of thumb for how much adjunct steeping grains you can add. I think you want to keep their totals to less than 15% of the fermentables. I could be wrong about that percentage. Recommendations can be found by googling. FUU, i didnt realize steeping and partial mash were synonymous Mashing is required for lots of other grains like 2 row. Mashing requires you to mix strike water and grain such that the resulting temperature is 148-160. You then hold it at those temps for an hour. What you will want to do, is pick some steeping grains, put them in a strainer, add them to cold water, bring the water to 170, dunk the grains a bit, and discard them. Now add your malt extract and hops and boil. Since your using hopped malt extract, you won't want to boil that. You may even want to consider adding more hops since you seem to have a lot of malt compared to hops. 1/2 oz of one about 30 minutes then the other at flame out sound good? ive been searching for people that have made a similar recipe, but oddly... nothing. hence all the questions..lol. would i boil the Creamy Brown since it is unhopped? i want to make sure i get this all right  heres what i think ive figured out: 19.4 oz HME 19.4 oz UME 4-8 oz Muntons 60L 4-8 oz Chocolate or Pale Chocolate .5 oz Fuggles .5 oz UK Goldings at 16 oz of grain, itd be ~30% of the total but they wouldnt all be fermentable sugar. i may just use one type of hops and add half oz during the boil and the rest when its turned off. |
| I do a mini mash now days. When I do a hybrid brewing session. Bring the water to about155oF. I dunk the grain bag in the water & put a lid on it. Let it sit for 30-60min. I then take the bag of grain out. Put it in a colander. Run 2+ cups of boiling water over the grain bag in the colander. Strain the bag a little & your done! Make some bread with the spent grains or add to a compost pile, etc. |
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Quoted: heres my finalized recipe Quoted: AR-Josh, thanks for the help OG is about 1.043 w00t! It's beer...HOORAY beer!!!  http://hopville.com/recipe/1116743/home-brew/creamy-brown-tower-porter# |
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Quoted: Quoted: for aeration, i used a sterilized whisk and whisked during cooldown then for 10 minutes in the fermenter before adding the yeasties. That's what I do. I take one of the whisks from the kitchen and whip the hell out of the wort before pitching the yeast. by the way, that nottingham ale yeast is some POWERFUL stuff. |
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Quoted: I do a mini mash now days. When I do a hybrid brewing session. Bring the water to about155oF. I dunk the grain bag in the water & put a lid on it. Let it sit for 30-60min. I then take the bag of grain out. Put it in a colander. Run 2+ cups of boiling water over the grain bag in the colander. Strain the bag a little & your done! Make some bread with the spent grains or add to a compost pile, etc. damn.. never thought of the bread making idea. thats genius really.. |
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I do a mini mash now days. When I do a hybrid brewing session. Bring the water to about155oF. I dunk the grain bag in the water & put a lid on it. Let it sit for 30-60min. I then take the bag of grain out. Put it in a colander. Run 2+ cups of boiling water over the grain bag in the colander. Strain the bag a little & your done! Make some bread with the spent grains or add to a compost pile, etc. damn.. never thought of the bread making idea. thats genius really.. My friend does pizza crusts with them. I think he adds about a cup of grain to the rest of the crust mix. It's very good. |
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I do a mini mash now days. When I do a hybrid brewing session. Bring the water to about155oF. I dunk the grain bag in the water & put a lid on it. Let it sit for 30-60min. I then take the bag of grain out. Put it in a colander. Run 2+ cups of boiling water over the grain bag in the colander. Strain the bag a little & your done! Make some bread with the spent grains or add to a compost pile, etc. damn.. never thought of the bread making idea. thats genius really.. My friend does pizza crusts with them. I think he adds about a cup of grain to the rest of the crust mix. It's very good. Allot of brewpubs us spent grains in Bread. |