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  1. Jmio

    Belgian ale fermentation finished after three days

    Hi guys! We brewed this last Sunday, following this recipe for a 10L batch: - 1.7 kg Maris Otter (68%) - 400 g Abbey Malt (16%) - 400 g CaraMunich II (16%) - 14g East Kent Goldings (5.5%AA) 60m - 5g East Kent Goldings (5.5%AA) 20m - 21g Saaz (2.6%AA) 0m - 1/4 Protafloc 10m - Half package...
  2. Jmio

    Are these the correct malts for a Belgian Abbey Ale?

    We brewed this last Sunday, following the recipe I posted above. After a lot of activity in the first three days, where the room temperature was around 21°C, yesterday it almost stopped. The room temp also dropped to 19 ish. OG was 13.6%brix at 20°C (1.052, corrected (1.04)) and since...
  3. Jmio

    Are these the correct malts for a Belgian Abbey Ale?

    Awesome! Thank you, guys!
  4. Jmio

    Are these the correct malts for a Belgian Abbey Ale?

    I really like this approach. But all of them have to be removed when transferring the wort to the fermenter, after cooling, right? I don't remember seeing any mention to it in the books I have read, and I had my doubts during our first brew. It just didn't make sense to me that all the hops...
  5. Jmio

    Are these the correct malts for a Belgian Abbey Ale?

    Thank you for your comments, guys. Really appreciate it. We only have 1.7kg of MO, so I have adjusted the recipe like this (for a 10L batch): - 1.7 kg Maris Otter (68%) - 400 g Abbey Malt (16%) - 400 g CaraMunich II (16%) - 14g East Kent Goldings (5.5%AA) 60m - 5g East Kent Goldings (5.5%AA)...
  6. Jmio

    Are these the correct malts for a Belgian Abbey Ale?

    Hey guys! We're planning to brew the 'Very Good Abbey Ale' from Brew Better Beer this weekend, but we have some doubts with the grains we bought for this recipe. Firstly, we have the Weyermann Abbey Malt (EBC 50) from TMM which we are not sure if is the Pilsner malt required by the recipe. The...
  7. Jmio

    English ale fermenting for 3 weeks

    I was referring to 1.8 volumes of CO2. I boil the sugar in about 250ml of water and mix it with the beer before bottling.
  8. Jmio

    English ale fermenting for 3 weeks

    Thank you! Got the feeling that it was too much. We'll go for 1.8 (29.6g) as it'll be bottled.
  9. Jmio

    English ale fermenting for 3 weeks

    Regarding carbonation, the app suggest to use 48.4g of sugar (regular table sugar) in 8 litres to reach 2.4 vol of CO2. Would that be ok to get the carbonation level we usually have here in tap ales?
  10. Jmio

    English ale fermenting for 3 weeks

    Thank you, guys!
  11. Jmio

    English ale fermenting for 3 weeks

    Hi guys! Three weeks ago, we brewed our second batch, following this recipe: BIAB Full Volume (No Sparge) 10 L batch (fermenter) Grains Maris Otter 6 EBC 2.000 g Crystal Extra Dark 240 EBC 200 g Hops East Kent Goldings 6% 15 g - 60 min (boil) Fuggle 4.2%...
  12. Jmio

    Hola from London!

    Awesome! Thank you!
  13. Jmio

    Recipe volumes check, please

    The problem was an incorrect equipment profile in the app I did use to get the water and grains quantities, which ended with only 1.5kg of grains in almost 14l of water for the mash. It's drinkable, but without much body, as expected. We will let it age for a some weeks anyway.
  14. Jmio

    Hola from London!

    Thank you guys for this really nice welcome! Cheers everyone! acheers.
  15. Jmio

    Hola from London!

    Hey @Obadiah Boondoggle! Lol! Probably both will be true at some point 😅 We left it 2 weeks in the fermenter (after just 5 days the SG reached and remained at ~1.008, but read that wouldn't cause any harm leaving it until the end of the second week), then conditioned and bottled for, now, 3...
  16. Jmio

    Recipe volumes check, please

    @Jim Brewster, I didn't know about the efficiency drop of a thin mash. As this will be our second brew only, we don't care much about efficiency, but for sure we will try sparging in future brews. @foxy, I read in some forums that a common grain absorption rate value is 0.08 gallons per pound...
  17. Jmio

    Recipe volumes check, please

    Awesome! Thanks a lot! - I think the water / grist ratio comes from the calculator... I will check if I can edit it and if any of the other values change - Yes, I meant Strike water... Still mixing up the terms... - After the first brew, I posted my measurements somewhere else and was told that...
  18. Jmio

    Recipe volumes check, please

    Hi all! Made a mistake with the volumes on my first recipe due to an incorrect equipment profile in the recipe calculator tool. This Sunday we want to brew it again but with the correct quantities to try to learn from the differences between both beers. I would appreciate your review of the...
  19. Jmio

    Hola from London!

    Hello everyone! My wife told me last January -Hey, why don't we try to brew beer? 5 weeks ago, we brewed our first ever beer! A simple English Ale with Maris Otter and Crystal 240 malts, East Kent Goldings and Fuggle hops and Safale S-04 yeast. Living in a small flat, we went for the BIAB...
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