That certainly sounds interesting...Are the extra recipes worth buying the new edition for do you think?
It depends what you want. All the old recipes are there unchanged and most of the new recipes are so exotic that you might wonder whether you'd want to try them: strange combinations of fruits, milkshake IPAs and a Brett recipe. Not the stuff I'd like to drink even I made a successful batch, but others obviously like that sort of stuff. I'm glad the old favourites are completely unaltered. It's for us to experiment with adjusting these standard recipes, I think. Apart from that, the book is as solid and well written as the earlier edition.
So you can. But I understand the bag contains fermentable sugars to make the yeast numbers multiply. Might be wrong, though.
I’m not dry hopping, this is my first brew and I’m trying to follow the recipe as closely as possible....that said I’m supposed to condition this at 12 degrees for 6 weeks (I don’t have that long though). I’m going to keg it rather than bottle and have no way of regulating the temperature at the moment. Hence was going to drop it down in the conical for a few weeks and keg it in time to get it carbonated ready for Christmas.....
I did think of that, only I wasn’t sure if a consistent temperature was still required at this stage? It’s gonna range from anywhere between freezing (possibly colder) and the 12 degrees the book says to condition it at out in the shed?
Ok thanks. If I go this route then how long and at what temperature should I cold crash in the fv to clear it up before I keg it and shed it?
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. I aim for about 4.5%ABV, 40ish IBUs, with plenty of late hops and a dry hop and end up with something not too far off Summer Lightning back in the day. I guess it depends if you like that sort of thing.
