HELP WITH NORMANS RECIPE ALMANAC

[torchwood brewery]

HI ALL

been taking a butchers at the recipes here in normans almanac and have a question about the hop additions they all seem to be a 90 minutes addition at the start of boil is this correct or are they stepped at 30 minute intervles?

just want to clarify
thanks (twb) richard

[torchwood brewery]

got it

i see said the blind brewer.

what a bout a mash is it 90 or 60 min usually .

just want to get it right

richard twb

[torchwood brewery]

well mate thats what i thought

when i was playing with beersmith it told me this .

mash in 17.47ltr water @77.0c
45 min @70.0c
mash out 6.99ltr@91.5c
sparge with 36.76 ltr @75.6c
then add water to acheive a vol of 44ltrs

now all that for a single infusion full body batch sparge seems to be bloody confusing .
to make a 36 ltr batch .

what would you do and which parts dont mater at this stage.

as i see this above it wouls only equate to a 60 min mash ??

i dont really care for beersmith just though it was iteresting as ppl swear buy it . but for an english ale this sounds a bit under done ./
?

richard twb

[J_P]

Great post Richard I know where you're coming from as I under estimated the water on my first brew.

Based on the above logic I was working out volumes for a 23l batch

23l + 5l =27l (desired volume plus 5l for losses to hops etc.)

(27/85) * 100 = 31.7l (pre boil volume required allowing for a 90 minute boil)

That said if I have a 4kg grain bill that's 10l of mash water so theoretically I need 21.7l sparge water in order to achieve my 31.7l pre boil volume.

Does this sound about right?

Hopefully I'll be firing up the barefoot brewery this weekend and want to see if I can get this one spot on. I'm not sure what I'll be making yet but hopefully my copy of Marc Ollossons Real Ales for the home brewer should arrive by then to give me a bit of guidance

[J_P]

Excellent - Thanks Again.

I'll let you know how the weekend brew session turns out - fingers crossed no more dilution required!

I hope your English Ale turns out tip top Richard

[torchwood brewery]

thanks sooooo much chris i was asleep when you done all this being on the otherside of the pond and at the botom.

but it is all starting to come together now the tutorial is great nice and easy to follow thanks J-P for you input it is good to see that there was someone else out there had the same question .

the water bit always confused me abit as i did not have an average on grain absorbtion .
hope i get it right and hope your brew day is a smooooooth one.

richard TWB

[norman]

All additions at start of 90 minute boil,the almanac doesn,t give any particular hop schedule,but you can of course alter to your own tastes.

[torchwood brewery]

thanks norman

buy the way norman i see your recipes are all on individual posts have you ever got round to condensing them into one file so we can down load them?
i have seen pieopah,s but personally i like yours and would like to download them as one file is this atall possable ?

regards richard twb

[torchwood brewery]

NOW YOUV'E GOT ME THINKING MY BRAIN REALLY HURTS NOW

how do you merge them as you can see i am dumb and even dumber when it come to this bit i just learnt how to put a picture on a post .

so is it a cut and paste routine ?

richard

[torchwood brewery]

ok got it
also how about the signature part i have filled in the text box but it hasnt come up yet . is there anything special that needs to be done ?

forums there is a tut on this someware i am sure but cant find it oh well.

richard

ar poop there it is what a wally brain i am