Recent content by jpm92

Thanks for the reply Ed! I don't think the crushing is alright, actually it's the mashing the factor that I modifed. I thought having less infusion water and more sparge water would increase the efficiency, but apparently it's not the case. I will stick to a 1.5:1 wtq ratio and will use whatever...

Hello guys, third attempt at this recipe and this time I missed the OG big time. For this batch, I used BeerSmith and changed things a bit to match my malts. I scaled up to a 6.5L batch (1,72gal) which is the maximum I can have in the fermenter. Also I changed the mashing so that I used a...

Wow! That was fast! This is my third batch ever, but the last one I managed to hit the OG using the same procedure. I read into brewhouse efficiency just now, so I can't really help you there :/ I can tell you that the maximum volume I can boil is 5L since that's the pot I have (and it will be...

And here I am 6 years later trying to reproduce this recipe :) I didn't hit the OG, I reached only 1.048. Could you guys help figuring out where I messed up? I stepped everything down to a 5L batch (1,32 gal). I mashed the grain in 5L in a mash tun and then collected the wort, sparging with the...

So is it only the colour of the malt what matters? Should I just match EBC's of the grain bill with whatever malt I find on The Swaen? Anyway Spain has been just shutted down, so I have to stick with the malts I mentioned earlier... - Swaen©Ale as Pale Malt (6-9 EBC vs 2.0 SRM) -- > Not bad -...

Well, I finished it a couple weeks ago and it indeed went "different" than expected. It has definitely a bigger Stout flavour than anything else. BMC drinkers didn't like it much, and I can't blame them. Where I live, Covid-19 is screwing things up a bit, so I thought maybe it's a perfect time...

Well, I used the substitution chart (attached) I found online as a guide to get the malt, and just now I noticed I screwed up. I used: - Swaen©Ale as Pale Malt (6-9 EBC vs 2.0 SRM) -- > Not bad - GoldSwaen©Light as Carapils (10-20 EBC vs 2.0 SRM) -- > Almost ten times darker! - GoldSwaen©Munich...

This is the second brew I ever attempt and I think it went quite good considering I scaled it down to a 5L (1,3 gal) batch. I have some questions though: - Mashing temperature was 64ºC-ish (~148ºF), I didn't calculate well the strike water temprature. Should it have a noticeable impact in the...