Grain recipe advice

Gerryjo · Oct 18, 2016

Hi,I recently bought 2.5kg each of Best Cara Amber Malt Crushed (BESTMALZ) 70 EBC and

Chateau Cara Ruby 50 EBC.
I have 15kg of Minch pale ale malt and a variety of hops for experimenting with.The hops are as follows
First Gold 100g Alpha Acid 6.7%

Glacier Leaf Hops 100g Alpha Acid 7.2%

Junga Leaf Hops 100g Alpha Acid 11.1%

MILLENNIUM Leaf Hops 100g Alpha Acid 17.1%

Bullion Leaf Hops 100g Alpha Acid 7.2%
I have been BIAB with a 15 litre pot and have made a few brew's using pale malt grains and I'm wondering if anyone has any advice or could point me in the direction of a decent brew.Any info would be great.

Cheers Gerry

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Sadfield · Oct 18, 2016

It kind of depends on what you like to drink?

What yeast do you have?

I think out of that selection I'd probably try and get 3 different beers done, Keeping things simple with dry yeast.

1) A single malt single hop Saison using the Glacier and Belle Saison yeast. 5-6% 30 IBUs.

2) American pale ale using the Junga late in the boil and a good 4-5g/L dry hopping. Use a yeast like US05. 5% abv 40 IBUs.

90% Minch
5% Cara Amber
5% Dextrose

3) Using an British yeast like S04 and the First Gold with a good early bittering addition, small amount of dry-hopping, to brew a Standard Bitter. 3-4% abv 25-30 IBUs

Use either of your Amber or Ruby to get about 10SRM (20EBC) colour.

Use the Millenium for bittering in the above, if you need to keep some hops for late additions and dry-hopping.

HebridesRob · Oct 18, 2016

Partly, i'm replying to this to bump it up but I think you'll have do your own legwork on this one. Most of those ingredients are new to me.

Think you need to look up the cara malts to see how much people say is good to use. I'm guessing 5-10%?

Same with the hops read up on each of them. Are the recommended for bittering (early in boil) or aroma (later in boil) or dual purpose (either). Read up on what flavours they have (citrus, spice, herb) and decide what combinations you fancy them in. You might decide to just use one bittering & one aroma just see what they taste like.

Rubbing a hop between your palms and having a good sniff is a good way of finding out what they are like.

http://www.brewersfriend.com/

http://beerlegends.com/hops-varieties

https://byo.com/resources/grains

edit:
I see sadfeld beat me to it. I'll leave my reply anyway.

Gerryjo · Oct 19, 2016

Hi Sadfield and Hebridesrob,thanks for the reply.I do intend to be experimental but would like to darken the pale a bit.Im open for suggestions as I'm fairly new to BIAB with grains.Bought this bunch as they were all on special and thought it would be a good start to get the hang of things.

Yeast are as follows
Mangrove Jacks Yeast M03 UK Dark Ale Yeast 10 g BB Feb 16

Danstar Nottingham Beer Yeast 11g

Safbrew T-58 Yeast

Safale US-05 Dried Ale Yeast (11.5g)

Safale S-04 Dried Ale Yeast (11.5g)

There is a few for choice and cheers.

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Fil · Oct 19, 2016

grab some recipe design s/w i use the free brewmate, Beersmith is free for a 2 week trial iirc too..

if you have an idea of the gravity or ABV, colour in ECB's your after and hop bitterness in IBU's you can use the s/w to tweak a recipe and achieve those targets.

Gerryjo · Oct 19, 2016

Cheers File shall give it a try.

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Gerryjo · Nov 7, 2016

Damn fone ment to say Fil.Sorry.
Well done a brew day with a workmate who isa fellow brewer and quite successfull.Looked at a Stone IPA recipe which had a partial and an AG.
Used Cara amber 70 to substitue Crystal 15 with magnum,chinook,cascade and ahtanumhops and S04 yeast for the AG.With the partial we used Chateau ruby 50 with bullion,glacier,millenium and first gold and Mangrove Jacks M3 yeast.Got a Brucy bonus by re-mashing the grains and pulling a third brew with First Gold Hops,cardamon,nutmeg and orange peel and T58 yeast.Looking forward to seeing the results as they are all happily bubbling away.Cheersfor the advice again.:thumb:

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