Ready, steady, cook! Come on you Ainsley's....

Discussion on brewing beer from malt extract, hops, and yeast.
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MartialAnt

Ready, steady, cook! Come on you Ainsley's....

Post by MartialAnt » Sat May 10, 2008 12:38 pm

I have purchased this lot and now i havent a clue what to make. Image

Ok cant really see which hops they are in the pic.
They are...

Styrian Goldings
Goldings
Fuggles
Challenger
Halletau
Cascade
Saaz (whats left over)

Its got to be refreshing as the few days of summer are nearly upon us but i want it to have some sort of kick or tang to it.

I have a 50L FV so it can be more than a 40 pinter if need be.

As its going to be my 1st bash at extract brewing my friends will expect something shit hot.

Please help.

Roger

Post by Roger » Sat May 10, 2008 12:45 pm

I hope you bought some yeast to go with that little lot :shock:

I've just bottled my latest batch this morning made with pretty much what you have there.

The recipie I used was;

2x 1.6kg malt extract
500g Spray malt
340g Orange blossom honey (avaiable from CoOp but any light honey would do at a push)
59g Saaz (Bittering)
10g Saaz (Aroma)
Brewferm ale yeast

OG 1.061

I had a "little" taste filling the bottles and it tasted pretty good :D




Roger

Parp

Post by Parp » Sat May 10, 2008 1:59 pm

How about this ;

I zapped it through BeerSmith ;
300.00 gm Dark Dry Extract (34.5 EBC)
3200.00 gm Pale Liquid Extract (15.8 EBC)
15.00 gm Styrian Goldings [5.40 %] (60 min)
15.00 gm Cascade [5.50 %] (60 min)
15.00 gm Challenger [7.50 %] (60 min)
5.00 gm Styrian Goldings [5.40 %] (30 min) (Aroma Hop-steep)
5.00 gm Cascade [5.50 %] (30 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep)
5.00 gm Challenger [7.50 %] (30 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep)
10.00 gm Challenger [7.50 %] (15 min)
10.00 gm Cascade [5.50 %] (15 min)
10.00 gm Styrian Goldings [5.40 %] (15 min)
1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min)
150.00 gm Glucose Powder (0.0 EBC)
1 Pkgs SafAle US Ale (Fermentis #US-05) Yeast-Ale



Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.059 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.010 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.015 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.005 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.75 %
Bitterness: 39.8 IBU Calories: 43 cal/pint
Est Color: 17.6 EBC Color: Color


Carbonation Type: Corn Sugar Volumes of CO2: 2.4
Pressure/Weight: 107.2 gm Carbonation Used: -
Keg/Bottling Temperature: 15.6 C Age for: 28.0 days
Storage Temperature: 11.1 C

Parp

Post by Parp » Sat May 10, 2008 2:02 pm

The cans are 1.6 kg arent they ?

Should have checked first.

Didnt know the AA's on the hops so just used BeerSmith defaults also.

MartialAnt

Post by MartialAnt » Sat May 10, 2008 6:00 pm

Roger,
thanks but i only have about 20g of saaz left & was hoping to use a multiple variation of the hops.
What effect on the end product does using Orange blossom honey have?
As for yeast i have :- Safale 04, Saflager & a Youngs u brew yeast (no idea whats in it). Need a bigger variety to my collection.


Parp,
Thanks and yes they are 1.6kg tins.
Would safale 04 work instead of SafAle US Ale?
How many pints will this make?

Roger

Post by Roger » Sat May 10, 2008 6:30 pm

MartialAnt wrote:Roger,
thanks but i only have about 20g of saaz left & was hoping to use a multiple variation of the hops.
What effect on the end product does using Orange blossom honey have?
As for yeast i have :- Safale 04, Saflager & a Youngs u brew yeast (no idea whats in it). Need a bigger variety to my collection.
The original recipe called for;

Bittering; Golding, 33g
Tettnanger 20g

Aroma; Tettnanger 10g

Maybe you could fiddle like I did and come up with your own take on the recipe.
The Orange Blossom Honey should give a orangey - citrusy flavour

Hope this helps.

Roger

Parp

Post by Parp » Sat May 10, 2008 7:16 pm

Safale S-04 would do fine.

It'll be finished its primary in 36hrs in this weather though! :lol:

The main boil hops may need upping a bit, depending on AA's and how old they are.

Thats a 5 gal/40 pinter.

Would you be boiling the whole 5 gal?

prolix

Post by prolix » Tue May 13, 2008 11:18 pm

Parp that looks bloody good all those hops would make an interesting beer, the one I am drinking is fuggles goldings styrians and is yummy cascade, challenger and styrians I am tempted to brew it just to see. Though I would change the balance to 2/3 bitter in first and 1 third bittering as aroma so drop the inital hops and raise the aroma hops, but thats just something I am doing at the moment.

Parp

Post by Parp » Wed May 14, 2008 8:34 am

I've just discovered something about Beersmith, and the settings I had.

I was using metric units but imperial gallons as my volume.

So everything was in grams and i "thought" the volume was in imperial gallons.

I later went through the options and changed my volume settings to litres.

The batch size was showing as 18.93 litres - which means that beersmith had really given me 5 american gallons.
5 imperial gallons should be 22.73 litres.

It means the recipie is wrong for the stated 5 gallons, it'll still be in balance, although of a more 'refreshing' abv :)

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