help with a brew idea

[Highlander]

I'm hoping to get a brew on this weekend. SWMBO has snuck a quick trip away, but I only have bits and piece's left over. If i post my current stock I wonder if any one could recommend an idea for me to brew. any help would be appreciated.

Pale Malt 10kg, Crystal 1450g, lager Malt 750g, Munich 700g, Caramalt 500g, crushed wheat 300g, torrified wheat 200g Pale crystal 180g

Cascade 56g, Northern brewer 50g, EKG 60g, Challenger 20g, Citra 20g, Chinook 40k.
WLP 001 (going into a 1.5L starter)

I'm looking to make a 40l brew length

Thanks in advance

[Dave S]

I'm hoping to get a brew on this weekend. SWMBO has snuck a quick trip away, but I only have bits and piece's left over. If i post my current stock I wonder if any one could recommend an idea for me to brew. any help would be appreciated.

Pale Malt 10kg, Crystal 1450g, lager Malt 750g, Munich 700g, Caramalt 500g, crushed wheat 300g, torrified wheat 200g Pale crystal 180g

Cascade 56g, Northern brewer 50g, EKG 60g, Challenger 20g, Citra 20g, Chinook 40k.
WLP 001 (going into a 1.5L starter)

I'm looking to make a 40l brew length

Thanks in advance

You could do a nice Draught Bass - ish brew. Not sure about the the WLP001, but you more or less have the rest. For a 23l brew I use 4.5 kg Pale, 250gm Crystal and a mix of EKG and Challenger to 32 EBU.

Hope that's food for thought.

[killer]

With that yeast I'd brew an american pale ale.
Pale ale malt and add about 5% Crystal/ Light crystal, 3% Torrified wheat. I'd aim for about 1050.
I'd bitter it up to about 35/40 IBU's with all the challenger and some Northern brewer and add the Citra, Chinook and cascade as late additions.

[seymour]

With that yeast I'd brew an american pale ale.
Pale ale malt and add about 5% Crystal/ Light crystal, 3% Torrified wheat. I'd aim for about 1050.
I'd bitter it up to about 35/40 IBU's with all the challenger and some Northern brewer and add the Citra, Chinook and cascade as late additions.

+1

[Highlander]

Thanks for the thoughts guys, I'm thinking about this, can anyone see any issues?
might though some torrified wheat in with it to.

Fermentable Colour Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 8240 grams 94%
Caramalt 30 EBC 525 grams 6%

Hop Variety Type Alpha Time grams Ratio
Northern Brewer Whole 8.2 % 60 mins 40 grams 22.2%
Golding Whole 5.7 % 30 mins 30 grams 16.7%
Cascade Whole 5.7 % 5 mins 50 grams 27.8%
citra Whole 15 % 5 mins 0 lbs. 20 grams 11.1%
Chinook Whole 11.5 % 5 mins 40 grams 22.2%

Final Volume: 40 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.049
Final Gravity: 1.012
Alcohol Content: 4.8% ABV
Total Liquor: 55.8 Litres
Mash Liquor: 21.9 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 38.9566160346266 EBU
Colour: 11 EBC

[seymour]

Mmmm, I can almost smell it already! Though the WLP001 (Chico strain) is 100% true-to-style, it's so very boring. I can't help urging you to at least split some wort off to ferment separately, even with a cheap dry English ale yeast like Muntons, Coopers or Windsor. A side-by-side comparison later may be very illuminating.

[Highlander]

gonna have to break away from it, only ever gone for 04 and 05 before and the WL super something. Only got the wlp001 with me at the moment so thats going to have to do for this brew.

[seymour]

No worries, the malt and hops will do the talking.

[killer]

Looks good to me highlander.
Grain bill wise I'm brewing something similar next weekend.
Though gonna throw in some Nelson Sauvin/ Amarillo/ NZ Cascade for multiple late additions.
Made it before twice, once with Nottingham, once with S05 - was the best beer I ever made when mini-kegged with
the S05 - not the most complex admittedly. This time I want to throw WLP001 at it and see what happens.

Was debating splitting it in two and throwing an english ale yeast in one as Seymour suggests. In the end I think I'll also do a 10L extract
version on the side, with a 30min soak with some Crystal and the same hop schedule, but with Windsor ale yeast - just for the hell of it.
Jimp2003 did something similar with a 15min boil which got me thinking...

Good luck with it !

[seymour]

...In the end I think I'll also do a 10L extract version on the side...

Any brewday when you're doing an all-grain batch and an extract batch, I highly recommend sparging your finished mash tun one more time and dissolving your extract into that "small-beer" or "second-runnings" (instead of plain ol' water.) You've already done the work of real grain complexity, might as well put some of that mojo in your extract batch too, you know? It'll provide extra fermentables, fresher flavors and aromas, yeast nutrient, fuller mouthfeel, etc.

[killer]

@ Seymour

That's a good idea - I hadn't thought of it. I'm actually BIABing but it shouldn't be too much hassle to do what you're suggesting as I usually sparge the bag anyway.