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8 years 4 months ago #1864 by stewcooney
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Ok .. so i am now drinking my first ag beer .. i made at least one major mistake. with what i would consider major effects and it still tastes as good as any $80/$100+ case of beer and definitely still better than any extract brew i ever made in my 5ish years of brewing .. My big error was a lack of oxygen so it under fermented leaving a fg of 1.028 . New technique means relearning your whole process.. So ... my big question ... How is extract ever going to be as good or better than grain ..

poke a hive with a stick and see what happens :evil:

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8 years 4 months ago #1865 by Gash
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hahaha well... I have some bad all grain too.. but umm... yeah :)

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8 years 4 months ago #1868 by xenon
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All of the Extract beer I have tasted has had a distinctive home brew taste. I haven't had a temperature controlled extract mind you.

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8 years 4 months ago - 8 years 4 months ago #1869 by stewcooney
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Temp control helped with consistency as you would expect . but yeah . it still always had a hint of " that taste " . something I never tried was using clean none hopped extracts .....

turns out I didn't mess up my first grain brew . for some reason my refracto has become a compulsive liar .. It reads zero with water but reads high on anything with gravity . higher the gravity bigger the error . :S .
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8 years 4 months ago #1870 by Gash
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Are you testing fermented wort with it? I leave fermented wort to my old hydrometer, but everything before fermentation is my refracto, there are equations/programs you can use to use the refrac, but I just find the hydro easier.

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8 years 4 months ago #1871 by stewcooney
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You might be right gash . i didn't know they read fg's wrong . it's kinda new so still leaning its querks

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8 years 4 months ago #1872 by Gash
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yep that would be it, they can be used but need a table or convertor to get a correct reading. Refractometers come into their own while brewing so you can cool a couple of drops and take a test within minutes, where as if you needed to use a hydrometer you'd have to wait a long time for that size sample to cool enough to test.

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8 years 4 months ago #1873 by Gash
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