What to do when you don't have what you want!

[prodigal2]

Hi all, yet again I have been let down in my supply chain, and I don't have all the ingredients for the 2 brews I wanted to do this week

I currently have in stores:
16.5kg pale malt
4.5kg german pilsner malt
750grms crystal
500grms torrified wheat
500grms roast barley

21grms goldings(5.6%AA)
113grms Brambling Cross(7.2%AA)

I still have no IC and my hops order is currently in the ether
On the pluses my pale malt turned up in a 30l fermenter So I buy my malt and get a free FV but at €40 for 30l I bally well hope I get something thrown into the deal

Anyhow to cut to the chase, what do people think I could do with this lot?

I'm currently leaning towards DRB's Brambling Beauty, and substituting the amber malt for crystal. But I'm hoping someone may have a better suggestion as I had hoped to do that as is!

[Matt]

Prodigal,

I wouldn't sub the Amber out of the Bramling Beauty, the Amber flavour is the winning feature IMHO.

How about a summer quaffer Pale Ale using the BX for bittering and the Goldings for aroma. I just ran the following quickly through BeerAlchemy, @ 75% eff:

5kg Pale Malt
30g BX full boil + 20g Goldings at last 5 min
S-04

5.2% abv
33 IBU

Any good

Matt

[prodigal2]

Prodigal,

I wouldn't sub the Amber out of the Bramling Beauty, the Amber flavour is the winning feature IMHO.

Just my 2p.

Matt

Cheers for the tasting note there Matt, that is what I thought about the amber.
Its just fustrating seeing all that malt and a lack of something to brew

[Matt]

No probs. Just added the above

[prodigal2]

Prodigal,

I wouldn't sub the Amber out of the Bramling Beauty, the Amber flavour is the winning feature IMHO.

How about a summer quaffer Pale Ale using the BX for bittering and the Goldings for aroma. I just ran the following quickly through BeerAlchemy, @ 75% eff:

5kg Pale Malt
30g BX full boil + 20g Goldings at last 5 min
S-04

5.2% abv
33 IBU

Any good

Matt

Is that for a 23l brew length?, but it sounds great. and more to the point simple as this will be AG3

[Matt]

It was for 22, so I've adjusted it a bit, and upped the BX hops. Here is the detail:

Wort Volume Before Boil: 30.00 l Wort Volume After Boil: 23.00 l
Volume At Pitching: 23.00 l Volume Of Finished Beer: 22.00 l
Expected OG: 1.050 SG
Expected FG: 1.013 SG Apparent Attenuation: 72.9 %
Expected ABV: 4.9 %
Expected IBU (using Tinseth): 33.8 IBU Expected Color: 4.8 SRM
Mash Efficiency: 75.0 %
Boil Duration: 90.0 mins
Fermentation Temperature: 18 degC


Fermentables
Ingredient Amount % When
UK Pale Ale Malt 5.00 kg 100.0 % In Mash/Steeped


Hops
Variety Alpha Amount Form When
UK Bramling Cross 7.2 35 g Loose Whole Hops All Of Boil
UK Golding 5.5 20 g Loose Whole Hops 5 Min From End

[prodigal2]

It was for 22, so I've adjusted it a bit, and upped the BX hops. Here is the detail:

Wort Volume Before Boil: 30.00 l Wort Volume After Boil: 23.00 l
Volume At Pitching: 23.00 l Volume Of Finished Beer: 22.00 l
Expected OG: 1.050 SG
Expected FG: 1.013 SG Apparent Attenuation: 72.9 %
Expected ABV: 4.9 %
Expected IBU (using Tinseth): 33.8 IBU Expected Color: 4.8 SRM
Mash Efficiency: 75.0 %
Boil Duration: 90.0 mins
Fermentation Temperature: 18 degC


Fermentables
Ingredient Amount % When
UK Pale Ale Malt 5.00 kg 100.0 % In Mash/Steeped


Hops
Variety Alpha Amount Form When
UK Bramling Cross 7.2 35 g Loose Whole Hops All Of Boil
UK Golding 5.5 20 g Loose Whole Hops 5 Min From End

Matt many thanks

When I get a few minutes I will scale to 16L brew length. (my current stockpot size)

The Brewname I'm thinking is :

Matts Zarzamora De Oro (matts golden(goldings) blackberry(brambling X))

If you are happy with that it will be knocked up in the next couple of days, all things being equal

This should take my mind of the brews I intended to make as the rest of my ingredients won't arrive till next month

[Matt]

cheers Prodigal2

[prodigal2]

For 16l

3.64kg Pale malt

22grms BX (full boil)
14.5grms Goldings(last 5 mins)

S04(may use nottingham)

Seem right?

[Matt]

Yep. The actual stats from BeerAlchemy are:

3.5 kg Pale Malt
24g BX
14g Goldings

(assuming 21 litres boil vol, 16 litres finished vol)

Matt

[prodigal2]

Cheers Matt, OH and Steve Flack for the software. This will be a full on forum effort