Recipe Advice

[kfm]

I'm trying to use up the last of my ingredients at the weekend and I am a bit stuck on what to brew . I'd appreciate any suggestions on brewing an AG beer with the following ingredients to around 65/70 litres, 4% ABV +/- and something that will condition well in corny kegs over say 6 weeks. I'm not too fussy on style, I'm fortunate enough to like most types of beer and it'd be a welcome change to stray off the lager/bitter/stout path. Here's what grain I've in stock:

11kg Lager Malt
4kg Roasted Barley
1kg Amber Malt
1kg Munich Malt
500g each of wheat malt, flaked barley, flaked rice, caramalt and torrifed wheat.

And hops:

300g EKG
250g Bobek
200g Saaz
150g HallerHersbruck
100g each of Super Styrian, Fuggles, Perle and Bramling X.

I'm good for yeast (S-04, US-05, Nottingham, S-23 and some odds and ends) but no fermentation temp. control. Anything left over will be donated to my mate who is starting to adapt kits, so there's no limit on quantities (better off in my AG than in his Munton's)!

Thanks in advance for any input

[dave-o]

I'd probably make a summer ale using all the lager, wheat, cara and rice grains, and all the bobek. I'd split the bobek into 3 and put it in at 15, 10 and 5 minutes before the end. I'd ferment it with nottingham.

You should get about 60 litres of about 4% with that i'd think.

It'd be a nice refreshing brew that i imagine both lager drinkers and ale drinkers would enjoy.

[kfm]

Cheers Dave-o; summer ale it is with a good handful of Saaz chucked in as well

[dave-o]

Sticking that into beersmith, i get this:

(75% efficiency)
Estimated OG 1049
Estimated FG 1013 (probably lower with Notts actually)
Estimated ABV 4.7

If you up the length to 64 litres it's 4.4, and if you up it to 70 litres it's 4.0

As regards IBU, if you go with
100g bobek - 15 mins
75g bobek - 10 mins
75g bobek - 5 mins

it's round about 20IBU.
Personally i'm really into these light ales with loads of flavour but little bitterness, so 20's great in my book. You may be more into bitterness though, so as you say you could stick some extra saaz in or make the 15 min hops earlier.