Dark birthday beer

[HopWroester]

Put this together for a 60th birthday beer.
Aim was for 6% and 60ibu

Any comments are as always appreciated but one question i have is, what does balance value mean?

[BrannigansLove]

Balance Value is a way of measuring the IBU against gravity

https://klugscheisserbrauerei.wordpress ... r-balance/

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~rohw0009/homebre ... bvcalc.htm

[BrannigansLove]

As far as your recipe goes, what sort of beer are you trying to make? My initial response was:

That's a lot of different malts (you're using black, chocolate, and roasted barley), and the IBU is rather high (though my tastes favour the lower end of the IBU spectrum, so you may want to seek a second opinion). If I were you, I would think about what I wanted in the beer, and then decide whether the flavours the different malts bring are required in that beer.

[HopWroester]

Thanks for the links on balance.

As for the recipe, i dropped the chocolate but kept the rest. Came out very dark and 'roasty', got 500g of coffee beans for secondary.

Took some inspiration from brewdog king imp.

[BrannigansLove]

Be interested to hear how this one turns out, stouts/porters are one of the styles I'm looking to nail down a solid base recipe this year. Best recipe I've come up with thus far is this:

Original Gravity (OG): 1.060 (°P): 14.7
Final Gravity (FG): 1.018 (°P): 4.6
Alcohol (ABV): 5.54 %
Colour (SRM): 41.8 (EBC): 82.3
Bitterness (IBU): 31.3 (Tinseth)

45% United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
25% German - Smoked Malt
10% United Kingdom - Malted Naked Oats
5% Belgian - Biscuit
5% German - De-Husked Caraf III
5% United Kingdom - Brown
5% United Kingdom - Roasted Barley

1 g/L Magnum (13.9% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)


Single step Infusion at 69°C for 60 Minutes. Boil for 60 Minutes

Fermented at 18°C with British Ale Yeast WLP005.

Planning on making this again later this year as a non-smoked version with WY1450.

[HopWroester]

Will do.

I brewed this for last xmas, was a porter/stout style, can never remember which has more roast malts!

It came out well but i under primed so was a little flat.

[Kyle_T]

I have a solid recipe that you can just scale up and increase the IBU, has taken 2 3rds and recently a 1st in competitions.