Graham Wheeler Recipe - When to Add Sugar?
Graham Wheeler Recipe - When to Add Sugar?
I'm not a big fan of the idea of using sugar in a recipe but several of the recipes in the BYOBRA book call for sugar. Does anyone know at what stage you should add this? Do you add it to the mash or put it in at the start of the boil?
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Re: Graham Wheeler Recipe - When to Add Sugar?
Hi
Sugars should be added about halfway through the boil. If you do the full 90 minutes, 45 minutes into the boil should be fine.
Cheers
Jason
Sugars should be added about halfway through the boil. If you do the full 90 minutes, 45 minutes into the boil should be fine.
Cheers
Jason
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Re: Graham Wheeler Recipe - When to Add Sugar?
I did read on another forum about a guy who put the sugar in the mash by mistake and it all turned well!
I always put it in half way through the boil.
I always put it in half way through the boil.
Re: Graham Wheeler Recipe - When to Add Sugar?
Thanks guys. Put it in at 45 mins as suggested and got spot on predicted OG. Very pleased with that. Not so pleased by the plague of fruit flies. Won't be trying an outdoor boil in summer again. Fingers crossed it was hot enough when they fell in not to cause an infection and if I can think past the fly residues in my beer I'm sure it will be fine.
Re: Graham Wheeler Recipe - When to Add Sugar?
If anyone noticed that the first post was by a different person it's because I was posting from my brother's account as we brew together and I was at his house.
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Re: Graham Wheeler Recipe - When to Add Sugar?
Since I started AG brewing I've accepted that the sugar goes in half way through the boil and have done so when the recipe calls for it as does the brew I'm doing today.Fuggled Mind wrote:Hi
Sugars should be added about halfway through the boil. If you do the full 90 minutes, 45 minutes into the boil should be fine.
Cheers
Jason
But why? Why half way through?
Why not with the hops when the hot break is achieved?
Why not when the IC goes in 15 mins from the end?
Why specifically half way through?
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Re: Graham Wheeler Recipe - When to Add Sugar?
Logic suggests that as long as it is dissolved in the boil it should be fine...............it works for kit brewers with less fuss!
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Re: Graham Wheeler Recipe - When to Add Sugar?
trucker5774 wrote:Logic suggests that as long as it is dissolved in the boil it should be fine...............it works for kit brewers with less fuss!
That was what I was thinking.
Why does it have to be half way through and like I said in a previous post I read about a guy who put it in the mash by mistake and it all came out fine!