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This beer has been 8 days in keg at 12psi and by far the best beer I️ have made to date!!!
Oats don't increase head retention. In big numbers, they even decrease it. There are some well documented experiments on this available via Google search.
Not sure I’d bother with carapils. I don’t think you’ll have any issues with head retention with this grain bill. The brown malt would be good and within style IMO.Yea, you're right, I meant mouthfeel and body and not head retention.
So then I should keep the carapils?
Not sure I’d bother with carapils. I don’t think you’ll have any issues with head retention with this grain bill. The brown malt would be good and within style IMO.
Are you correcting your mash pH at all? This could be a factor.Mine is missing something to be perfect! I have only been brewing since Aug but this Nut Brown AG is by far my best beer!
I’m learning more and more each brew! What can I do to give this beer more head? Look at this pic, looks flat. Taste better than it looks. Any suggestions ? I haven’t even kicked this keg and already looking to brew this again.
You can see above when I pour from the keg it has a nice head.
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Are you correcting your mash pH at all? This could be a factor.
That could be why you have no head retention. It happened to me before I managed pH.Not yet! This was my first AG.
I finally got around to tasting this beer. I have to say that this beer is GREAT! thanks @lilsparky.I brewed an adaptation of this recipe today. I live outside of the USA and I'm not too familiar with the resources where I live yet so I had to make changes when I didn't have the ingredient exactly.
For example my maltster uses wyeremann malt so I used crafa 1, melanoiden, and caramunich 3 for the specialty grains. I also had to us S-04 since I don't have access to Nottingham.
But the beer looks and smells great so I hope it will do this recipe justice.
I'll update when I finally taste the beer.
For those that substituted 2row with Maris Otter how is this different? I’m not experienced enough to know the difference between the two. I would imagine the Maris Otter is fuller mouthfeel.
Deciding on brewing this up tomorrow. Only changes I'm going with are Warrior for the 60 min hops, Northern Brewer for the 15 min hops and using some washed WY1272 for the yeast.
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