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KB
Joined: 06 Nov 2014 Posts: 334 Location: Virginia
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Link Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 8:43 pm Post subject: One Thing Most Impressive About Our EB? |
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For me it's the smooth beers I now brew. Really unable to think of another way to describe. No harsh flavors, etc.
Others?
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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11121 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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Marc
Joined: 15 Mar 2023 Posts: 28 Location: Upstate New York
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Link Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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I figured I'd post here even though we haven't built the EB system yet. We've hopefully done our last brew using the old propane system. We've brewed the blonde ale, from your recipe Kal, 3 times now and each time it was different. The difficulty in maintaining constant accurate temperature has been the bane of our brewing experience using our current system. The one change I made this last brew was to go through and do the calculations for mash thickness, sparge water, and pre and post boil volumes. Previously we've been doing full volume mashes which leaves very little room to do a real sparge. Thus our efficiencies and OG / FO were not accurate, usually much lower than we were shooting for. Now we come to this last brew yesterday. I tried to replicate the process on your system Kal, using 1 pump and 2 propane burners. this was not ideal by any stretch. There were moments when it looked like that old game Twister, trying to get hoses and kettles were they needed to be. So our results with the change to proper mash thickness and correct sparge volume and time was an OG of 1.058. I never got anything even close to that before with our current system.
I'm at a loss to come up with one thing that I look forward to being most impressive about our EB system, however there will be a basket of great improvements in time, ease of process, accuracy, and being able to consistently reproduce great beer.
Marc
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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11121 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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Link Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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Consistency is definitely a big deal! I wanted extreme repeatability so that if I tweaked one variable a bit between recipes I could actually see what difference that makes. Once a recipe is honed in correctly I'll usually stop experimenting and just brew it over and over and the results are always bang on the same every time, so no surprises. Especially important when I brew the beers my wife likes... she doesn't like surprises. She wants to be exactly like when she purchases commercial stuff that always tastes the same.
Kal
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Walts Malt
Joined: 27 Sep 2013 Posts: 119 Location: Farmington, MN
Drinking: Two Hearted Clone
Working on: Planning my Fall Brewing Schedule
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Link Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2023 1:44 am Post subject: |
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Agree, consistency is key. What I really like about this system is that I can step away for a couple of months and still step back in and make (what I think is) great beer. I always end up brewing most of my beer in the second half of the year, but it's like riding a bike with this system.
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jcav
Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 205 Location: Central Florida
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Link Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, it's the consistency and repeatability that makes this system so amazing. I can brew the same recipe anytime I want and it will come out bang on everytime. I take good notes and once I punch in the mash temp, or temps for step mashes it just comes out the same. I already have my cold side and yeast handling and fermentation temp control down, so this makes things so easily repeatable. I especially appreciate it when I have tweaked a beer to that perfect flavor that I like and I can make it the same next time. Great system and I have been a believer since I started brewing on one in December 2015!
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KB
Joined: 06 Nov 2014 Posts: 334 Location: Virginia
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Link Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2023 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I agree, consistency, repeatability and, at least to me, the wonderful "smooth" homebrews I create.
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