What can I brew tomorrow

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Wez

What can I brew tomorrow

Post by Wez » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:53 am

What should I brew, any ideas, help appreciated.

The good lady has just signed off another brewday for me for tomorrow but I have been caught short on the hops, I have:

Oregon Fuggles 100g 4.9%
Challenger 55g 6.5%
Styrian Goldings 41g 3%
Northdown 74g 6.5%

I have loads of Pale and Crystal malt also have flaked Barley, Carafoam, Roasted Barley, Black & Chocolate malt.

I thought about doing a brew I've done before 'Grumpy Bum'

4130.00 gm Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) Grain 91.0 %
410.00 gm Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L (19.7 EBC) Grain 9.0 %
80.00 gm Fuggles [4.90%] (90 min) Hops 40.2 IBU
25.00 gm Styrian Goldings [2.00%] (15 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops

But I did this recently and wanted to try something a bit different, what do you think?

Oh, 23 or 25 L batch at 75% eff.

Cheers in advance! Wez. :D
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delboy

Post by delboy » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:04 am

What yeasts have you got handy wez?
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Wez

Post by Wez » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:07 am

Only Safale s04 and Gervin English Ale
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J_P

Post by J_P » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:16 am

Why not try making one of your own up? What I did was to use some of Marc Ollossons recipes as a guideline (IBU's:OG ratio for the various styles), then took some advice from SteveD, Steve_Flack and Vossy and just went for it. The Result? Lucky7 is my best beer to date.

Tip From Steve F if you're going for a pale ale then use the Gervin as the Safale can overpower the delicate flavour.
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Wez

Post by Wez » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:20 am

Yesterdays brew was one of my own and it smells lovely already 8) , I'm just on my arse for time today so won't have time to sit down and work one out :cry: so i'm hoping one of the guys here can see what I have and help me out. Good tip on the Gervin 8)
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delboy

Post by delboy » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:25 am

What about chucking some dark crystal about 300g and about 130 g of chocolate malt in with about 5Kg of pale malt.

Get about 30 IBUs from either the challenger or northdown as the bittering hop (I'd probably go for the northdown).

Bung about 20g of styrians in at 15 mins and the rest of them on flame out

ferment with the gervin.

Edit call it wez's wicked ale (its similar to petes wicked ale)
Last edited by delboy on Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:33 am, edited 2 times in total.
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J_P

Post by J_P » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:27 am

Lucky7 Replace the goldings with the Oregon Fuggles or Challenger
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prodigal2

Post by prodigal2 » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:43 am

Wez you could join the all challenger party :lol:

Why don't you flick through Norms almanac, it may fire off some inspiration :wink:
Its one of the great resources of this forum :=P
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Wez

Post by Wez » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:01 pm

I'm going to have a go at Delboy's suggestion (but i'm using a bit more crystal)

5000.00 gm Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) Grain 90.3 %
410.00 gm Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L (19.7 EBC) Grain 7.4 %
130.00 gm Chocolate Malt (886.5 EBC) Grain 2.3 %
49.00 gm Northdown [6.50%] (90 min) Hops 30.1 IBU
20.00 gm Styrian Goldings [3.00%] (15 min) Hops 2.6 IBU
20.00 gm Styrian Goldings [3.00%] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -

at 75 eff that should give an OG of 1049 and then an EBU of 32.

In line with todays beer naming in Delboys honour this one will be called:

Hookey Street
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delboy

Post by delboy » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:56 pm

long live hookey street :D
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Vossy1

Post by Vossy1 » Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:30 am

Enjoy the brew day Wez :wink:
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J_P

Post by J_P » Sun Aug 26, 2007 8:50 am

delboy wrote:long live hookey street :D
Unfortunately it probably wont live that long, not the way Wez drinks :lol:
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Wez

Post by Wez » Sun Aug 26, 2007 8:52 am

:flip: :beer:
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louthepoo

Post by louthepoo » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:06 am

Have a good day mate, i'll be back brewing with you once swimbo pushes the bump in her belly out :D
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