All Grain
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Most all grain recipes don't use sugar - as the name suggests, its all grain !!
Some recipes do add a bit of sugar but most I've seen which include some sugar have been clone recipes of well known commercial beers. Has usually been explained that commercial breweries have used sugar in some part as its cheaper than grain and makes for more profit. Therefore if brewing a clone and wanting a close result to the original commercial beer you would add sugar to replicate the original as closely as possible.
If I was adding sugar (I never have) to an all grain recipe I would add it slowly towards the end of the boil or even just into the fermentation vessel before transferring my wort in on top from the boiler. I suspect if you dump it all into the boiler in one go during the boil you could risk a foaming messy boilover!
What recipe you looking at trying out of interest ?
Some recipes do add a bit of sugar but most I've seen which include some sugar have been clone recipes of well known commercial beers. Has usually been explained that commercial breweries have used sugar in some part as its cheaper than grain and makes for more profit. Therefore if brewing a clone and wanting a close result to the original commercial beer you would add sugar to replicate the original as closely as possible.
If I was adding sugar (I never have) to an all grain recipe I would add it slowly towards the end of the boil or even just into the fermentation vessel before transferring my wort in on top from the boiler. I suspect if you dump it all into the boiler in one go during the boil you could risk a foaming messy boilover!
What recipe you looking at trying out of interest ?
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check out some of the free and cheap brewing software and apps about, i personally use brewmate, http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Miscellaneous/BrewMate.shtml
but there are lots of options, and all should allow you to edit a recipe on the fly click a button and view a projection of the expected results of the addition you made, ie if you added 100g of sugar to the recipe the increase in expected abv will become apparent.
when brewing from grains, your brew house efficiency is important, but start with an estimation circa 75% and just refine with the results from your brews as you progress, the more brews under your belt the clearer the picture of the brewday variables, such as bhe and boil off rate will become and you will have more accurate values to plug into your choice of brewing s/w for more reliable target predictions.
but there are lots of options, and all should allow you to edit a recipe on the fly click a button and view a projection of the expected results of the addition you made, ie if you added 100g of sugar to the recipe the increase in expected abv will become apparent.
when brewing from grains, your brew house efficiency is important, but start with an estimation circa 75% and just refine with the results from your brews as you progress, the more brews under your belt the clearer the picture of the brewday variables, such as bhe and boil off rate will become and you will have more accurate values to plug into your choice of brewing s/w for more reliable target predictions.
