Brewing Master

Question:

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi all, Broke down at my lhbs yesterday and bought Beers Captured by Mark and Tess Szamatulski. There are very few good recipes on the web, so I figured I’d spring for a recipe book and try my luck. I also looked at their other books, Clonebrews and North America Clonebrews, but Beer Captured seemed to have more beer recipes geared toward my tastes. I have Beer Captured and Clonebrews.  Both are excellent books. I noticed that each recipe calls a 90 minute mash. Is there any reason other than total conversion to mash for 90 instead of 60 minutes? I tried a 90 minute mash today for the heck of it, wondering if I’ll see a difference in my efficiency… You’ll notice that every mash temp is listed as 152F as well.  I’m pretty sure that they created the recipes as extract and "converted" them to all-grain in the sidebars.  I’m not sure how much attention you need to pay to the mash time and the temperatures they list.  I usually try to adjust the mash temp based upon my own experience for what I think that style would call for. Actually, I just checked and many of them have mashes other than 152