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Strong beer at 3%?
How are you measuring gravity? I would double-check your gravity readings. If you are using a refractometer, you'll need to correct your reading because they are not meant to be used after ...
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Is malt + wheat still a SMaSH?
I would think not. SMaSH means single malt and a single hops. The point is simplicity and purity, where emphasize the flavor of a single malt and single hops. Adding additional ingredients will change ...
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Caramunich 1, 2, and 3 vs. Munich 1, 2, and 3
As the other answers have stated, the malts are indeed different. As with all malts, they can vary between malt companies but these varieties are different regardless. Perhaps more importantly, ...
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What are these insects in my malt?
They're possibly weevils. The one in the middle looks like it has a long 'snout' that weevils tend to have.
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Question about steeping time for making your own Malt?
A question akin to "how long is a piece of string?" I hope knowledgeable readers will forgive me rehearsing the "received wisdom". Malting is the process of causing the barley seed to sprout and in ...
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What malt should I use to get a red beer?
In first place it's very hard to get a blood-red beer. The beers that are said to be red are actually ruby, copper or reddish brown in color. Just to make it clear because you are probably aware of ...
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Step mash and under modified malts
It can help head retention and other aspects of the beer with the right grain bill, but fully modified malts don't benifiet from it.
Typically a acid / protein rest is applied to release the amino ...
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Using malt past its best before date - dangerous?
There is certainly no danger in using them. If you have kept them dry, the worst thing that could have happened is that their enzymatic activity (certainly of the crushed ones) has diminished or ...
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What malt should I use to get a red beer?
All those answers above used to be the way to go. Since then, Best Malz has introduced Red X malt. It gives you the reddest color I've ever seen, especially if you use it as 100% of your grist.
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First brew - OK to substitute malt/hops, and how much water should I be boiling?
Your recipe look completely fine to me.
Your malt bill looks OK. Your OG will be ever so slightly higher, and color may turn out very slightly darker but not enough to care about.
"Finishing hops" ...
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How would I know if a malt was under modified?
The article you linked to states anything less than 78% extract dry basis fine grind (DBFG) is substandard or under modified.
There is also this paragraph:
Grind difference (% FG/CG). The fine grind/...
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How would I know if a malt was under modified?
Modification is the process of barley becoming malt. It happens naturally by adding water which activates enzymes which break down a starchy endosperm inside the barley husk into carbohydrates. This ...
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How coarse should I grind the malt?
The grain should be crushed, with a roller mill, not ground. This will leave the husks mostly intact, but the starch should shatter into fine, white particles.
These fine particles will become your ...
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Recipe simply calls for caramalt
No Caramalt is its own thing:
https://bsgcraftbrewing.com/simpsons-caramalt
https://bsgcraftbrewing.com/crisp-cara-malt-15-25-kg
It typically comes in around 15°L, so any crystal/caramel malt in ...
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Mosaic Hop Issue
If you're comparing to a beer produced in a brewery, it could be difference in types of hop used and freshness. Are you using whole hops or are you using pellets? Most homebrewers I know (myself ...
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home malting equipment
I've done a bit of home malting. Nothing automated except the drying process in a dehydrator. Some people have created rotary malting machines that rotate the grain. That is so you don't have to turn ...
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home malting equipment
I know this is old but if anyone still interested it should Google 'sprowt labs malting acro'. They make some automated home malting thing that malts enough grain to make triple batch of beer. They ...
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Malted vs unmalted flaked oats
Let's start with the difference of malted and unmalted and what flaked is.
Malted is the process to allow a seed to begin germination then stopped when the seed has a specific amount of enzymes, ...
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How do I create, dry or roast my own barley malt for beer?
You need to soak the grain for 2-3 days first. Just put it in some kind of tub of cold (!) water, and change the water once or twice a day to provide oxygen.
Once that's done, lay the wet grains out ...
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Malt bills - Potential extract weight per volume of wort required for target gravity
Pounds extract per barrel is actually quite straightforward to calculate. Here's my method:
First you begin with the density of water. Water is ~8.34 pounds per gallon (depending on the temperature). ...
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can you suggest a recipe for these hops and fermentables?
As long as you have an oven, you can make that pils malt into toast/roast specialty grains and go wild. See some suggestions by John Palmer to start and take it from there.
http://howtobrew.com/book/...
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can you suggest a recipe for these hops and fermentables?
With only pilsner malt*, your options are pretty limited, but you are not helpless.
Pils, of course
What else would you brew if you have only malt designed for it? If you can keep low temperatures, ...
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Need some carification on my ingredient choices and hop boil timing
This question isn't easy to answer - at best it's subjective as to whether it will be the result you want or not. I don't know the final gravity or IBUs that this recipe will produce - I could find ...
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How coarse should I grind the malt?
Mill size is really dependant on the brew system. Sounds like you BIAB, so I won't go into to much. I would encourage you to look a other topics here about Mash Tuns.
To answer. I like to have the ...
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Crushing malt without a mill
One of my earlier attempts was to use a manual pasta maker in place of a crusher. First, I took out rollers and roughed and knurled them as much as possible using a couple files. Then I screwed it ...
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Can I cook/eat milled barley malt?
Post mashing you've actually removed much of the nutritional portion of it and put that stuff in your wort. The primary component left then is all that fiber.
Even using the unmashed malt for the ...
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Can I cook/eat milled barley malt?
You don't want to eat the husk. You can, but it's about like eating a wood toothpick. But we need husks in the mash as they work as the filter for lautering.
As for using a spent grain. After a mash ...
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What does it mean "Lager Malt" in this recipe (FreeBeer)
To understand this malt you need to put it into perspective with other malts and the region it comes from; the UK.
Historically, lager malt is a malt made from popular English strains of barley that ...
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First brew - OK to substitute malt/hops, and how much water should I be boiling?
Basically you just have a 5.73% change. The difference in these malt types and weights.
To scale your batch up so you use the 2.8kg of extract. Simply increase water and hop additions up 5.73%.
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