What is "Adjunct" in a recipe.

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  1. ao125

    ao125 Initiate (0) Dec 1, 2010 Virginia

    Agreed. Adding table sugar will just dry your beer out.
     
  2. VikeMan

    VikeMan Grand Pooh-Bah (3,067) Jul 12, 2009 Pennsylvania
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    Substituting sugar for other fermentables will dry the beer out. But adding sugar will not.
     
  3. mnstorm99

    mnstorm99 Initiate (0) May 11, 2007 Minnesota

    If this was a liquid, could it have been candi syrup of some sort?
     
  4. Timmush

    Timmush Pundit (931) Jan 5, 2008 New Jersey

    IPA Recipe, 5 gallons
    6 lbs pale liquid malt extract
    1 lb carapils
    1 lb crystal 40
    x lb table sugar

    Working on the hop addition now.
    was thinking
    1 oz Chinook and .5 oz centenial at 60 min
    1.5 oz cascade and .5 oz of centennial at 15 min
    1 oz of cascade and .5 oz oz of centennial at 0 min
    Dry hop with 1 oz of Cascade and .5 oz of centennial.

    was hoping for a sierra nevada Celebration-ish taste.
    Please let me know if I am totally off .

    Thanks
     
  5. Timmush

    Timmush Pundit (931) Jan 5, 2008 New Jersey

    The silence has worried me. ha
     
  6. pweis909

    pweis909 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,250) Aug 13, 2005 Wisconsin
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    Since when is a dry IPA considered bad? Besides, the beer is only going to be dry compared to a recipe in which the ingredients are the same but the points from the sugar are replaced with malt. Adding sugar does not magically hide the residual sweetness and dextrins derived from crystal malt and carapils.
     
  7. pweis909

    pweis909 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,250) Aug 13, 2005 Wisconsin
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    I made a mistake earlier and plugged DME into my software, not LME. With LME, the recipe as I suggested would only have an OG of 1.055 or so. 55 Gravity units is pretty low for an IPA, at least in this country, but where I like it. More sugar for more alcohol, your call.

    The type of hops looks great for a classic west coast IPA. The amount of hops may need tweaking

    Your hops calculate to >80 bittering units. With a low OG, this would be a very aggressively bittered IPA. I would take your 60 min centennial and move it to 0 min to get you down to 67 BUs. This is still a fairly high BU:GU ratio. It will still seem an aggressive beer to me, I think, but your mileage may vary. In my own IPAs, which to be honest, is not my favorite style, I try for a BU:GU ratio of ~one.
     
  8. Timmush

    Timmush Pundit (931) Jan 5, 2008 New Jersey

    Thanks everyone. So, If I use the recipe mentioned I should be ok. Or should I just get rid of that "adjunct/Sugar" or should I add a pound of DME in its place.
     
  9. Timmush

    Timmush Pundit (931) Jan 5, 2008 New Jersey

    ok. I am kinda assuming now that the "Adjunct" was probably corn Syrup. That is a weird recipe because it looks like its only going to come out to be around 1.046 o.g. and we can't have that.
    I plugged some numbers into a calculator
    http://powersbrewery.home.comcast.net/~powersbrewery/mastercalculator.html
    I think I am going to do this.

    IPA Recipe, 5.5 gallons in the style of SN Celebration.
    6.6 lbs pale liquid malt extract
    1 lb carapils
    1 lb crystal 40
    2lb Light DME
    1LB Dextrose

    1 oz Chinook at 60 min
    1.5 oz cascade and .5 oz of centennial at 15 min
    1 oz of cascade and .5 oz oz of centennial at 0 min
    Dry hop with 1.25 oz of Cascade and .5 oz of centennial.

    This puts me at about 1.061 o.g. , ABV 6.4%, IBU of 66. Pretty close to SN Celebration.
    Please let me know if you think it looks like its horribly bad. I dont want to mess this one up.
    Thanks for your help!
     
  10. pweis909

    pweis909 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,250) Aug 13, 2005 Wisconsin
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