Old time IPA recipe sought

[oblivious]

Why on earth would you want to add hot water to raise the mash temperature? Surely you'd just change the setting on the PID controller and go have yourself another beer

/Phil.

With your system you could brew beer for everyone!

[Andy]

The thick mash is so that there's enough headroom in the mash tun to be able to raise the temp to 77c for mashout by adding hot liquor

Why on earth would you want to add hot water to raise the mash temperature? Surely you'd just change the setting on the PID controller and go have yourself another beer

/Phil.

Or get some extra Banj* practice in ?

[Seveneer]

[SteveD]

The thick mash is so that there's enough headroom in the mash tun to be able to raise the temp to 77c for mashout by adding hot liquor

Why on earth would you want to add hot water to raise the mash temperature? Surely you'd just change the setting on the PID controller and go have yourself another beer

/Phil.

Flash git! I was talking about the rest of us mere mortal brewers.

[SteveD]

The thick mash is so that there's enough headroom in the mash tun to be able to raise the temp to 77c for mashout by adding hot liquor

Why on earth would you want to add hot water to raise the mash temperature? Surely you'd just change the setting on the PID controller and go have yourself another beer

/Phil.

Or get some extra Banj* practice in ?

Hmm there's no :slit-eyedsharpintakeofbreathoverteethsmiley:

So close, Andy, so close..... I've got to endure two days of the accursed instrument at the Bude Jazz festival this bank holiday

They should all be destroyed by controlled explosion - except Bela Fleck's

[slim34]

it say in the beer drinkers bible that the original ipa's were 'a whopping 7.5-8 percent'

if thats what you want to brew it's going to be preety strong isn't it?

[Seveneer]

it say in the beer drinkers bible that the original ipa's were 'a whopping 7.5-8 percent'

if thats what you want to brew it's going to be preety strong isn't it?

It certainly is strong but tastes great. You don't need many of them anyway

/Phil.