Just wanted to let you know that Denny wrote a great article about creating homebrew recipies in the latest Zymergy. Thank you Denny!!! I enjoyed reading it and learned a lot. I am deffinently going to start making teas out of grain and hops after this weeks trip to the LHBS.
I do have one question out there for all of you guys. Denny was writing about a particular Porter he made and stated that the pH was low. Does anyone know what the “notmal” pH range for beer is?
Yeah Denny, that was a great article! Something I see a lot from newer brewers is the “malt soup” recipe, where they add a bunch of ingredients with no idea of what they do, and they end up with muddled flavors. I know I did that for a year or two when I started making my own recipes. Hopefully some people will read your article and make better beer.
Same here - the descriptions of all the malts sounds so enticing - why not use ALL of them TOGETHER?
I didn’t really ‘get it’ until I started taking copious notes on the malt flavor (not just ‘malty’, etc.). I still go off of (limited) experience - Denny’s article gave me something to think on while writing recipes!
I just started brewing this past summer and have tried my hand at my own recipes with some moderate success, the beer taste good to me. But I have noticed that my first batches always need improvement. After reading the article combined with what I am tasting from my own beers I need to research more of what I put in the beer and how it melds together to create what I want.