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Not using a calculator,but some rules of thumb: - 1 liter liquid absorption for a kg of grain - total water added is 30L, and around 6 kg of grain, so you lose around 6L to the grain? - Leaves around 24L of liquid You then have to factor in losses from the boil, and anything you lose just in...

Was it a 60min boil? (just trying to work out the water losses)

Right, I have all the ingredients I need for about another 5 brews, so here's the next one I will be doing Blue Lunacy This is based off a recipe from an original brewer of Blue Moon - I've made some changes and added some Caramunich to try and hit the colour of the current Blue Moon, and...

How much water did you add at the various stages (mash/sparge?)?

This was bottled a couple of weeks ago - carbonation is good. Coffee-like taste, but a little odd bitterness in the background aftertaste. Might need a couple of weeks to condition out? Next post will be forthcoming blue moon clone 'Blue Lunacy'

Yes, I've read that thread. Was very informative in many ways but I think I'll try one of the recipes from the chap at Coors. Maybe I'll try just using what I can get and see how it works out. Was just interested in what others were using

So maybe bung a fair bit in, then tweak on subsequent batches? I think blue moon has a pretty subtle orange anyway - unless you've dunked an orange slice in it!

What counts as a sweet orange that I can peel though? I'm no good on what counts as a sweet orange😐

Thanks for the replies - has anyone used this one from Malt Miller: https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/sweet-orange-peel-500g/ I will check out those other links - just trying to get it right, as without a good orange flavour, I'm not sure how the batch will taste!

I've been prepping a blue moon clone and found some great recipes. One ingredient everyone seems ovsesed with is dried sweet orange peel, but specifically from Valencia oranges. If you are in the US, looks like you can get these ground fro a brand called McCormack's, but this isnt available in...

Tastes great and is really clear. Loads left and hoping to enjoy slowly- new intertap with a spring is guarding against me losing the whole keg! Only thing is that the first half pint tends to have a good head on it, but if I immediately pour a second then it's a struggle to get one to form...

It has very slowly drifted down to 1.018 and flattened off so I think I'm done. Going to leave it in there and then crash it down to 4 (all I can manage), then I'll gelatin fine it and bottle as this is a shared batch and my Helles is still on my only keg

So I emailed WhiteLabs, and they've come back and said they know of brewers making gluten reduced witbier and hefeweizen so it seems feasible. They offered me the chance to use their services to test for gluten if I wasn't sure! But that did make me also wonder if there's a cheap home kit or...

A day and a half on, and it's dropped to 1.022! Very active airlock yesterday, which has slowed down quite a bit. Rate it is going, I'll hit FG sometime this evening, but will probably let it sit for a couple of days once it's stopped fermenting

Now I'm settled in, I'll just post my brews into a single thread unless I'm doing anything odd/new! Oatmeal Stout Yesterday did a Jon Finch Oatmeal stout, but with the addition of 50g of Carafa Special II because I wanted it to be a bit darker. So the ingredients were: 4kg Crisp Pale Ale Malt...

I've mentioned a couple of times elsewhere, but my wife is intolerant to gluten and has been for a couple of years. This was a bit of a downer because she loved beer. She's able to drink gluten-reduced beers (labelled gluten free but still made with barley etc.) and she's been able to drink...

That's the spirit - and it really will be. Though Mrs Fritz thinks I can't have a single brew without at least one mishap. At AG brew #5 she's not wrong yet!

despite the disaster, I had also bottled a few of these. They came out pretty well and made me regret the keg loss even more!

Just make sure you don't lose a keg to a dodgy tap! :D look forward to seeing what you manage!

Oh, and I finally got my conical fermenter transfer kit working for the occasion. This is it mid-transfer: