Recipe Ideas Please - First Extract Brew

[brewin_bear]

Well am about to take the plunge into extract brewwing. Have just made and tested my home made boiler (two Tesco Value Kettle elements in a Young's FV).

Have already got the following ingredients (building up the store cupboard see );

4Kg Light Dry Malt Extract
Crystal Malt
Fuggles
Cascade
Challenger
Goldings

Can anyone recommend a recipe using some of the above? Was thinking of a speckled hen type maybe.

[RichardG]

Personally, I'd keep it simple early doors. How much Crystal do you have? I might use the DME plus crystal (depends on what you have, but say, 250g?), Challenger for bittering (something like 30g for 60 min boil), then Goldings for flavour and arome. How much of each hop do you have?

[brewin_bear]

500g of Crystal. 100g of each hop.

[brewin_bear]

OK, I've been playing with Beer Tools and how about this;

3000g Dry Light Malt Extract
250g Crystal malt (steep)
50g Challenger Hops (60 mins)
10g Goldings Hops (20 mins)
10g Fuggles (15 mins)

Should give 51.4 Bitternes and 5.1% ABV

Reckon would be nice?

[RichardG]

It's the sort of thing I'd do. What's the volume of the brew?

[brewin_bear]

23 L. Reckon I'll go with that then

[RichardG]

Agreed. the only suggestion I'd make is to use one hop or the other for flavour/aroma. Next time do the same recipe, but reverse the hops. So, if you use goldings this time, use fuggles next. That way you can get an idea of the taste difference between them. BTW, you haven't mentioned yeast. Which one do you intend to use?

[brewin_bear]

Good idea on keeping the hops simple. I'm going to be using Safale 04.

[RichardG]

Good choice of yeast at this stage; it's what I use. Always reliable, attenuates well, and really good flocculation. I reckon you're good to go!

[brewin_bear]

Just put the brew to bed ended up with;

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
2.00 kg Light Dry Extract - Muntons (12.0 EBC) Dry Extract 61.54 %
1.00 kg Light Dry Extract - Brupacks (7.5 EBC) Dry Extract 30.77 %
0.25 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (118.2 EBC) Grain 7.69 %
50.00 gm Cascade - Brupacks [7.60 %] (90 min) Hops 30.0 IBU
20.00 gm Fuggles - Brupacks [5.00 %] (20 min) Hops 5.0 IBU
5.00 gm Protafloc Powder (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04) Yeast-Ale

Batch Size: 22.00 L
Boil Size: 15.00 L
Estimated OG: 1.050 SG
Estimated Color: 15.9 EBC
Estimated IBU: 35.0 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: - %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ended at OG 1.050 - exactly as predicted and the sample tasted rather nice

[floydmeddler]

Looks great. I would also dry hop some fuggles when you rack it. Did this recently and the results were

Let us know how it tastes in a load of weeks time!

[brewin_bear]

Might just do that - how much fuggles did you use - 5g?

It was rather fun doing my first extract - almost a real brewer Butdon'tt have time to mash etc....

[RichardG]

Don't worry, I can't mash either yet... but I will! And I'm sure you will as well. It's a disease; now I've started down the brewing and recipe design road (in however simple a form) I won't be satisfied until I'm AG. Hopefully towards the end of this year. We'll see.

[brewin_bear]

OK... That brew seems to be fermenting very nicely.

I've got my next few brews planned based on some of the JBK Prize Winning Recipes Sticky that I have adjusted for my setup etc:

BeerSmith Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: Cat's Pajamas
Brewer:
Asst Brewer:
Style: American Amber Ale
TYPE: Extract
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
--------------------------
Batch Size: 23.00 L
Boil Size: 15.00 L
Estimated OG: 1.053 SG
Estimated Color: 29.3 EBC
Estimated IBU: 30.3 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: - %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
------------
Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.00 kg Amber Liquid Extract - Brupacks (25.0 EBC)Extract 92.38 %
0.25 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 30L (59.1 EBC) Grain 5.77 %
0.08 kg Chocolate Malt (500.0 EBC) Grain 1.85 %
32.00 gm Centennial [10.00 %] (60 min) Hops 23.5 IBU
15.00 gm Cascade - Brupacks [7.60 %] (15 min) (AroHops -
15.00 gm Centennial [10.00 %] (15 min) (Aroma Hop-Hops -
15.00 gm Centennial [10.00 %] (10 min) Hops 4.0 IBU
15.00 gm Cascade - Brupacks [7.60 %] (10 min) Hops 2.7 IBU
1.00 gm Protafloc Powder (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs Nottingham (Danstar #-) Yeast-Ale


THEN -

Recipe: Foxhunter Amarillo IPA
Brewer:
Asst Brewer:
Style: English IPA
TYPE: Extract
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
--------------------------
Batch Size: 23.00 L
Boil Size: 15.00 L
Estimated OG: 1.053 SG
Estimated Color: 23.8 EBC
Estimated IBU: 49.5 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: - %
Boil Time: 75 Minutes

Ingredients:
------------
Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.00 kg Amber Liquid Extract - Brupacks (25.0 EBC)Extract 94.12 %
0.25 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 30L (59.1 EBC) Grain 5.88 %
15.00 gm Northern Brewer [8.50 %] (75 min) Hops 9.8 IBU
15.00 gm Centennial [10.00 %] (75 min) Hops 11.6 IBU
15.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (75 min) Hops 9.8 IBU
10.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (45 min) Hops 5.7 IBU
10.00 gm Northern Brewer [8.50 %] (45 min) Hops 5.7 IBU
10.00 gm Centennial [10.00 %] (45 min) Hops 6.8 IBU
40.00 gm Northern Brewer [8.50 %] (30 min) (Aroma Hops -
30.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (30 min) (Aroma HoHops -
40.00 gm Centennial [10.00 %] (30 min) (Aroma Hop-Hops -
1.00 gm Protafloc Powder (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
2 Pkgs Nottingham (Danstar #-) Yeast-Ale

THEN -

Recipe: Stiff Squirel
Brewer:
Asst Brewer:
Style: Special/Best/Premium Bitter
TYPE: Extract
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
--------------------------
Batch Size: 23.00 L
Boil Size: 15.00 L
Estimated OG: 1.046 SG
Estimated Color: 21.1 EBC
Estimated IBU: 34.9 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: - %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
------------
Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.50 kg Amber Liquid Extract - Brupacks (25.0 EBC)Extract 95.89 %
0.15 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 30L (59.1 EBC) Grain 4.11 %
70.00 gm Fuggles - Brupacks [5.00 %] (90 min) Hops 30.4 IBU
20.00 gm Challenger - Brupacks [5.10 %] (20 min) Hops 4.5 IBU
15.00 gm Challenger - Brupacks [5.10 %] (0 min) Hops -
1.00 gm Protafloc Powder (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
15.00 gm Elderflower (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04) Yeast-Ale

[floydmeddler]

Might just do that - how much fuggles did you use - 5g?

It was rather fun doing my first extract - almost a real brewer Butdon'tt have time to mash etc....

I went for 20g.