Recipe Help Wanted

[Uncle Joshua]

I'm thinking of brewing this tomorrow..




340 Grams of honey would be added when initial fermentation is over. will it work?

Or, maybe doing the same with this..

[Pinto]

Honey flavours are very subtle and tend to be degraded during fermentation in my experience (and honey is VERY fermentable). To bolster the effect, might it be worth adding a little Honey Malt (Melanoidin malt) to the mash ?

[Uncle Joshua]

Honey flavours are very subtle and tend to be degraded during fermentation in my experience (and honey is VERY fermentable). To bolster the effect, might it be worth adding a little Honey Malt (Melanoidin malt) to the mash ?

Sadly, don't have that. I'm looking to brew in the morning.

[Pinto]

Honey certainly works, but don't expect buzzy fireworks in the final product as it'll tend to ferment out unless you use a honey with some serious flavour to it - and even then the flavour will tend to remain rather than the honey flavour

[Uncle Joshua]

I just got this from another forum..

Waggle Dance
Brew Type: All Grain Date: 30/06/2012
Style: Blonde Ale
Batch Size: 23.00 L
Boil Volume: 26.33 L
Boil Time: 60 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0 %

Ingredients Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.80 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.0 SRM) Grain 75.2 %
0.25 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM) Grain 5.0 %
40.00 gm Fuggles [4.50%] (60 min) Hops 20.7 IBU
20.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [5.00%] (10 min) Hops 4.2 IBU
1.00 kg Honey (1.0 SRM) Sugar 19.8 %

Beer Profile Estimated Original Gravity: 1.052 SG
Estimated Final Gravity: 1.014 SG
Estimated Color: 5.3 SRM (2.0-8.0 SRM)
Bitterness: 24.9 IBU (15.0-33.0 IBU)
Estimated Alcohol by Volume: 5.0 %

I put that in beer engine and it came out at 6.3%

That led me to...

[jimp2003]

I agree with what Pinto has said about the use of honey.

I like the look of your recipe with the fuggles and goldings best. However the final version you have posted has a bit too low bitterness for my liking - Did you mean to have the last two hop additions at 0g?

[Uncle Joshua]

The last two should have read 30g and 40g.

[seymour]

Bump.

So, how's your honey beer coming out?

[Uncle Joshua]

Bump.

So, how's your honey beer coming out?

It has a real lack of honey still.