Gooday gents,
I'm looking for an easy sipping session beer recipe. I've been brewing strong beers and lots of ipa's.
I need to buy supplies, but am looking for a dry malt extract recipe.
Has anybody got an awesome recipe they willing to share?
Cheers
Looking for a session recipe
Looking for a session recipe
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DaveyT
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Re: Looking for a session recipe
Hello
Session to me is up to 1.039 on the OG. Use your brewing software with 10% CaraPils and up to 15% golden syrup, with 25% wheat malt extract and 50% dried malt extract. Hops are up to you, but I'd go for 35 IBUs. Any combo or single hop, but getmst in at the end. I'm still not sure about 10 min, 15 min, 5 min, dry hopping, so let me now if you have a favourite schedule I can nick!
You could make your own invert sugar instead of using golden syrup. I had good results with using water from th CaraPlis steep then yeast nutrient instead of citric acid.
The above is for a blond ale which I've used US 05 with, but again let me know if you think other yeasts would fair better. To this you could add crystal up to 10% without any negative effects, or even a handful of roast barley, and some elderflowers. I did the above with loads of Brewer's Gold hops and it's great. I took 5l and added 8% crystal and 6% chocolate malts and that's come out lovely after 8 weeks conditioning.
If you want, you could use the recipe and use a saison yeast. It will need higher temps, though, and will ferment out to 1.000 so you could aim for a lower AG to reduce ABV.
For something dark and sessional, there are loads of mild rcipes that convert really well. Let me know if you'd prefer these. I've just made a great extract 80/- that's session strength. And there's always a session strength Belgium! These tend to be basedon my first recipe with slight tweaks and different yeasts.
Hope this helps.
David
Session to me is up to 1.039 on the OG. Use your brewing software with 10% CaraPils and up to 15% golden syrup, with 25% wheat malt extract and 50% dried malt extract. Hops are up to you, but I'd go for 35 IBUs. Any combo or single hop, but getmst in at the end. I'm still not sure about 10 min, 15 min, 5 min, dry hopping, so let me now if you have a favourite schedule I can nick!
You could make your own invert sugar instead of using golden syrup. I had good results with using water from th CaraPlis steep then yeast nutrient instead of citric acid.
The above is for a blond ale which I've used US 05 with, but again let me know if you think other yeasts would fair better. To this you could add crystal up to 10% without any negative effects, or even a handful of roast barley, and some elderflowers. I did the above with loads of Brewer's Gold hops and it's great. I took 5l and added 8% crystal and 6% chocolate malts and that's come out lovely after 8 weeks conditioning.
If you want, you could use the recipe and use a saison yeast. It will need higher temps, though, and will ferment out to 1.000 so you could aim for a lower AG to reduce ABV.
For something dark and sessional, there are loads of mild rcipes that convert really well. Let me know if you'd prefer these. I've just made a great extract 80/- that's session strength. And there's always a session strength Belgium! These tend to be basedon my first recipe with slight tweaks and different yeasts.
Hope this helps.
David
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