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Mrobs · Post by **Mrobs** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:58 am

Attempting my first all grain today, mash started at 9.15. Will try and update through the day. Recipe taken from Marc Ollosson book, Pen y Bont bitter but have scaled it down to 19l.

Pale malt 3300g
Crystal 66g
Challenger hops 68g
Challenger hops 13g

Hope that looks ok to your educated eyes

Anyway going to check my mash at midway point.

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:13 am

68g does seem quite a lot of Challenger.

Mrobs · Post by **Mrobs** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:15 am

In the book the hops are listed as 6.2, the hops i have are 5.6%

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:22 am

That's quite low alpha for Challenger but I still reckon that beer's going to turn out rather bitter. I would have though nearer 40-45g would give a more balanced beer.

Mrobs · Post by **Mrobs** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:26 am

Ok cheers will go for 45g

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:29 am

68g would give about 50IBU whereas 45g gives 33IBU. The rest of the recipe looks fairly low gravity so 33IBU should be enough....

EDIT: I used DaaBs calculator with 25% utilisation.

prodigal2 · Post by **prodigal2** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:30 am

Well 66grms will give you IBU's in the high 50's.
What are the IBU's that are listed in Marcs book for this recipe?

Oh and good luck today, enjoy it.

[edit]what they said above

Post by **Andy** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:36 am

steve_flack wrote:EDIT: I used DaaBs calculator with 25% utilisation.

Not Beer Alchemy

Mrobs · Post by **Mrobs** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:36 am

Hi the bittering units in the book is 40.

I actually used daabs calc with 20% utilization. must have done it wrong

anyway thanks for the help, no doubt i will be back

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:00 am

Andy wrote:
steve_flack wrote:EDIT: I used DaaBs calculator with 25% utilisation.
Not Beer Alchemy

I'm at work and clicking a link from DaaB's sig was easier.

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:14 am

Hope the brew went well MR...welcome to AG

Mrobs · Post by **Mrobs** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:21 am

Cheers currently on thebatch sparge, obviously a learning curve today for me but it looks like beer and smells lovely

roger the dog · Post by **roger the dog** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:34 am

Looks like it's going well MR, good work. Enjoy the rest of it

spearmint-wino · Post by **spearmint-wino** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:42 pm

Have a good brewday, hope it turns out well

Oh, and welcome to the dark side

J_P · Post by **J_P** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:47 pm

Welcome to the Dark Side

You should end up with a tasty brew with all those Challengers, they're definately one of my favourite hops.

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