Pale Ale Recipe

[Addled Jim]

Hi

I took this recipe from the marks & Spencer Ultimate Homebrew Book and have put it into a scaling spreadsheet, and when I asked for it to be checked on the BIABrewer Forum it was suggested that the original figures must be wrong for expected result. Unfortunatley the original recipe makes no reference to colour or bitterness, or AA of hops used.
Now being a complete novice (this is my first BIAB) I have every reason to believe this. Could someone have a look and tell me what this original recipe below would turn out like - maybe its printed wrong to begin with. I'm not looking for it to be scaled at this stage just to know its integrity.
Incidently has anyone else got/used this book/had experience of the recpes?

cheers, James

Pale Ale
OG 1049

Water 23 Litres/5 Gallons
90 Min Mash
Boil 60 Min

Grain
Pale Malt 3.6 kg
Carapils 226g
Caramunich 226g

Hops
Northern Brewer 31g 60 mins
Fuggles 17g 15 mins
Goldings 11g 10 mins
Protofloc 1tsp 15 mins

Yeast s-04

Target FG 1013
Target ABV 4.6%

[Rookie]

Looks like a good recipe to me. The only thing I can add is that on my system the O G would only be 1.042.

[john_drummer]

Brewmate reckons 1037 OG for that water & grain bill. I can't speak for the hop combination but I suspect it'll be quite drinkable.

to get the OG up to 1049 you'd need the following:
4.805 kg Pale Malt
0.302 kg Carapils
0.302 kg Caramunich

Colour would be 13.5 EBC - nice & pale
Bitterness 39.7 IBU
predicted FG would be 1012, giving 4.81% ABV

[Addled Jim]

That's the grain bill I have too now, ratio of grain was ok though original recipe weights were unsound. Someone on the other forum looked in the book online and found other recipes that were flawed he thought "The only thing that makes sense is if the weights they used referred to extract not grain".

[jimp2003]

Hi James!

The grainbill looks sound to me and the hop combo is a bit of a classic so no worries there.

I am confused by the reference to 23 litres of water though. The amount of grain would give the 1.049 OG you want if you were aiming for 19 litres of beer and if your efficiency was 75%. However if you were to aim for a 19 litre brewlength then you would need about 28-29 litres of water to allow for losses to grain and hop absorption, evaporation etc.

How much beer are you aiming for? Let us know and I will give you my take on water and grain volumes etc

Cheers!

Jim

[Addled Jim]

I've got it scaled thanks it was by 23ltr into FV, I typed it wrong - my mistake!!
This book has some interesting recipes but lack of info on colour or bitterness is annoying

[Addled Jim]

I've got it scaled thanks it was by 23ltr into FV, I typed it wrong - my mistake!!
This book has some interesting recipes but lack of info on colour or bitterness is annoying

[Addled Jim]

I've made some sense of the 23ltr of water now, at the start of the book when the traditional brewing method is described/illustrated, it recommends heating 23ltr of water, using half for mash, the rest for sparging, then topping up with cold water to reach the 23ltr target.