Greg Hughes recipe advice

[rpt]

I'm all for tinkering with recipes - many of mine have been inspired by that book but I usually change something. But, rather than throwing torrefied wheat into everything, why not experiment a bit? For example, for the 4 recipes you could add 0%, 5%, 10% and 15% and see what difference it makes. But, as already said, there's probably no point adding wheat and carapils.

[cerbera84]

I'm doing his summer ale this Monday. First proper mineral adjusted AG (previously just CRS/DLS).
I'm planning on sticking precisely to the recipe as it is before deciding to "improve" it... I'm doing two sequential Monday brews. Same beer, same yeast etc. Only difference will be the amount of minerals in it- same chloride:sulface ratio, just low vs high mineralisation.

This is another level to me right now - I just take whatever's in the tap !

[cerbera84]

brewed the first one today viewtopic.php?f=24&t=74851 just carapils in this one

[wilfh]

BenB-
"I'm doing two sequential Monday brews. Same beer, same yeast etc. Only difference will be the amount of minerals in it- same chloride:sulface ratio, just low vs high mineralization"

Would be interested in how that turns out if you get round to doing a side comparison.
cheers
Wilf

[Fingar]

I love Greg Hughes book and have brewed several of his recipes, including 3 of the ones you mention:

Amarillo Single Hop Ale (p116) with Amarillo - Done this as a extract and loved it, currently rebrewed as AG and now conditioning

Nelson Sauvin Single Hop Ale (p118) with Nelson Sauvin - Done this as extract, and loved it, planning AG with Wyeast American

60-minute IPA (p132) with Chinook, Amarillo and Cascade - Done this as extract, really smooth, loved it - will consider doing with AG

So, speaking from my days of extract brewing, these produced great beers... just follow the recipes.

Cheers... Fingar

PS - did I say that I love those beers?!