Thanks for giving the water chem additions. Just starting to look into BIAB and wondered how to mess with water profile for Cream Ales. Best to start with distilled water as a baseline? Only brewed 1 extract kit of Cream Ale using tap water and it turned out kinda bitter and meh. Could of been due to not having a chiller or just my unrefined knowledge/palette. (Edit for typo)
@TroubleBrewing
2 жыл бұрын
Hey Jordan. Unless your testing your tap water it’s almost impossible to measure your water chemistry since your tap water already had a bunch of minerals and salts added to it. Id suggest using distilled or RO water and build up from there, or get your tap water tested to see what’s in the water and build from there. If it’s too bitter then you can adjust the amount of hops in the beginning of the boil or change up the hops to have less alpha acid so they don’t impart as much bitterness. The lack of a chiller can pull more bitterness from the hops (If the hops are in kettle) if you are not going to add a chiller I would recommend a way to remove the hops from the wort before chilling like with a hop spider so you dont throw your ibu out of wack.
@CarlPapa88
2 жыл бұрын
@@TroubleBrewing Good to know. I like nerding out before getting deep into a hobby, so I figure starting from a 0 base with distilled water and making adjustments from there would be easier and more repeatable. Distilled water isn't pricey anyway.
@PatrickSandy78
2 жыл бұрын
Have a wonderful new year and looking forwards to your 2022 content.
@ronzimmerman9591
2 жыл бұрын
Keep on brother. Fellow michigander, do it to it. Where are you located at in the state?
@TroubleBrewing
2 жыл бұрын
About an hour north of Detroit!
@r-pats
2 жыл бұрын
Sparging will definitely help with efficiency, but if you really want to avoid it, try vorlaufing the wort back through after raising the malt pipe, that should gain you a few extra points.
@TroubleBrewing
2 жыл бұрын
Interesting... That would be a good experiment actually. Can take a reading before and after I do that since there is no water added. May make a video on that LOL.
@kebest1
Жыл бұрын
Hi Matt, I have been enjoying your channel. I also have a Clawhammer 120V. I have a comment I would like to suggest based on how we brew differently on our Clawhammer units. I thought once you started to track and adjust pH that would help your efficiency a bit more than it did. I think you typically mash for 60 minutes or less based on the videos I have watched so far. I typically mash for 75 minutes and then go for a 15 minute mash out. I also set my mash temperature bases on what it is at the top of the mash bed. I'm normally very close to my target efficiency. Just as a side note, I also boil a little different on my unit. I have two separate circuits in my garage. One I run for the Clawhammer and the other I use for a small 1800 watt induction plate that I sit the Clawhammer kettle on. This helps in speeding up temperature increases and the boil. The induction plate has ten settings. I set it to the number 4 setting and boil about 1.4 gallon off in 60 minutes. I'm looking forward to enjoying the rest of your videos.
@TroubleBrewing
Жыл бұрын
Hey Kurt thanks for checking out the videos and thanks for taking the time to write this up! So your right I do typically mash for around 60 minutes and mash out for around 10 minutes. For me I found that made the biggest impact was adding a sparge with just 1 gallon of cold water. Its super low effort and my efficiencies are were I would expect them to be.kzitem.info/news/bejne/qGyZlmFta4ZpmX4
@TroubleBrewing
Жыл бұрын
Also I would love to know what induction plate you have! Im looking at larger controllers and this may be alot cheaper.
@kebest1
Жыл бұрын
@@TroubleBrewing
@kebest1
Жыл бұрын
The induction plate is a Burton Deluxe, Model Number 6200. I have had it for many years. I think it was only $40 when I purchased it.
@TroubleBrewing
Жыл бұрын
@@kebest1 Awesome ill look into this: Have you timed how much faster heat up is? Time with/without induction on? I'm super curious if it cuts the time in half? Also are you able to have a vigorous boil without the lid on? Because that would be super cool.
@dlknight35
2 жыл бұрын
I triple crush my grains always. I also use the claw hammer system.
@TroubleBrewing
2 жыл бұрын
Yea you can really get crazy with the crush with BIAB! Thanks for checking out the video.
@mustyditch4703
2 жыл бұрын
Did I miss something here? 1.035 minus 1.032 equals 0.003 not 0.007?
@TroubleBrewing
2 жыл бұрын
I was not very clear in the voice over, I measured 1032 and after temperature calibration it measured at 1035 - my target was 1042.
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