davidrgreen
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Hi everyone.
So I'm new to the forum and have only made on batch of all grain beer which is bottle conditioning as i write this.
So I used a book called clone brews and transferred the recipe (fullers ESB) over to brewsmith and followed the instructions.
The beer seems to be OK but I tasted a little when transferring it to the secondary fermenting bucket and it seemed quite week flavoured so I added 2 oz of dry hops (fuggles and east kent gouldings in a cloth bag and dry hopped for 1 week). It is now bottle conditioning but I tasted it before bottling and it seems like its going to be a nice easy drinking beer but nothing like ESB and I would have expected there to be a lot more hoppiness to the beer with that amount of dry hops.
Also the recipe was supposed to be a 5 gal batch but it ended up as less (15ltrs) so I would imagine it should be stronger flavour being more concentrated.
Just wondering what you guys/gals think.. did I do something wrong or is there any advice for next time.
Thanks in advance.
David
So I'm new to the forum and have only made on batch of all grain beer which is bottle conditioning as i write this.
So I used a book called clone brews and transferred the recipe (fullers ESB) over to brewsmith and followed the instructions.
The beer seems to be OK but I tasted a little when transferring it to the secondary fermenting bucket and it seemed quite week flavoured so I added 2 oz of dry hops (fuggles and east kent gouldings in a cloth bag and dry hopped for 1 week). It is now bottle conditioning but I tasted it before bottling and it seems like its going to be a nice easy drinking beer but nothing like ESB and I would have expected there to be a lot more hoppiness to the beer with that amount of dry hops.
Also the recipe was supposed to be a 5 gal batch but it ended up as less (15ltrs) so I would imagine it should be stronger flavour being more concentrated.
Just wondering what you guys/gals think.. did I do something wrong or is there any advice for next time.
Thanks in advance.
David