New AG recipe

[Grahamf4]

Hi folks.

I was wondering what people think of the following recipe. I am brewing it for a friend's fiftieth birthday in August. Will be brewing it this Tuesday.

Pup's Progress

Date: 31/5/11

Gyle Number:

Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 7 lbs. 11.4 oz 3500 grams 87.3%
Caramalt 30 EBC 0 lbs. 7.4 oz 210 grams 5.2%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 0 lbs. 10.5 oz 300 grams 7.5%


Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
First Gold Whole 8.3 % 90 mins 0 lbs. 0.7 oz 20 grams 50%
Bramling Cross Whole 6.3 % 30 mins 0 lbs. 0.4 oz 10 grams 25%
Bramling Cross Whole 6.3 % 0 mins 0 lbs. 0.4 oz 10 grams 25%


Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.039
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 3.7% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.3 Litres
Mash Liquor: 10 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 25.1400009192878 EBU
Colour: 20 EBC

[Manx Guy]

Hi!

Looks good there, a nice sessionable Pale bitter/ale

Mind you I am a fan of Bramling X... Although I've not brewed with it in Combination with First Gold so no idea how that combo will work...

Are you adding the Caramalt for head retention/colour?

Have you tried this recipe or a similar one before, how was it?

Cheers!

Guy

[Rookie]

Looks good, what yeast are you using?

[Grahamf4]

Manx Guy

Thanks for the feedback. I am using caramalt as I have never used it before and it's used in one of my favourite beers i.e Punk IPA. Have never used either of these hops before but do know that I like them. You get that spiciness from First Gold and a bit of that with citrus and other fruit notes from the Bramling Cross. I have changed both the recipe a little and the hopping schedule. Maybe a bit daft when your brewing a birthday present beer but it is the thought that counts. No matter what It will be "interesting". I hope that this is not the time to find out that I should be following set recipes for the practice and not to strike out on my own through creating recipes. Well we'll see. I'll post the tweaked recipe.

Rookie

I am using Danstar Nottingham. I have not been brave enough yet to try any liquid yeasts, involving starters and stepping up. I am still getting my head around that side of things. So far the Danstar Nottingham has been good for me.

[Grahamf4]

here is a tweaked recipe for my Pup's progress. I will let the forum know how brew day went, which starts in around 2 hours time.

Pup's Progress

Date:

Gyle Number:

Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 7 lbs. 11.4 oz 3500 grams 87.5%
Caramalt 30 EBC 0 lbs. 10.5 oz 300 grams 7.5%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 0 lbs. 7.0 oz 200 grams 5%


Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
First Gold Whole 8.3 % 90 mins 0 lbs. 0.5 oz 15 grams 40.5%
Bramling Cross Whole 6.3 % 30 mins 0 lbs. 0.4 oz 10 grams 27%
First Gold Whole 8.3 % 30 mins 0 lbs. 0.2 oz 5 grams 13.5%
Bramling Cross Whole 6.3 % 0 mins 0 lbs. 0.2 oz 5 grams 13.5%
First Gold Whole 8.3 % 0 mins 0 lbs. 0.1 oz 2 grams 5.4%


Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.039
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 3.7% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.3 Litres
Mash Liquor: 10 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 23.774063818569 EBU
Colour: 17 EBC

[Grahamf4]

Well folks

As I was unpacking my ingredients I suddenly noticed that I had not actually bought First Gold hops at all but had bought Northdown. Although I had a shopping list of ingredients with First Gold clearly printed and in front of my eyes, I didn't buy them. Perhaps an unconscious slip. I had never brewed with Northdown either. So I just switched the Northdown for the First Gold.

Well I lost a lot to evaporation and the spare wort I had for dilution took my final volume to around 17 litres. I ended up with an OG of 1049 and after fermentation I got the target FG of 1010. It tastes bloody good mind. Racked and will bottle it this weekend.

Is it me or does bottle conditioning take longer than conditioning in the keg/cask?