2nd extract brew -pale ale

[rui]

this week will be a brewweek :clap:

yesterday i did a muntons mild with some tweaks (you can see it in another thread), and thursday i will brew my second extract beer, this one with some speciality grains. i m trying to get some stock for may, because its my birthday and its my vilage's fest (its a party tipical in Portugal, that every vilage, town, city, has once a year, in vilages its even more funny, because everyone from there that lives in another towns, cities, countries, comes on that weekend and the vilage increases the population 5 times more during 5 days :thumb: and, like all portuguese families, mine is big too :) ) so i think i will need a good stock for those days. :shock:

so, i decided to do a kind of pale ale, golden ale, IPA, i realy dont know what to call it, if can help me with that, i would be glad :thumb:

the recipe is:

Original Gravity 1.053
Final Gravity 1.013
Colour (SRM / EBC) 8.0 / 15.7
Bitterness23.2 IBU
Alcohol by Volume 5.2%

Batch Size 25.0 Litres / 6.6 Gal
Boil Time 45.0 min

Fermentables

Liquid Malt Extract - Light Extract - 3.00 Kg / 6.61 Lbs
Dry Malt Extract - Light Extract - 1.00 Kg / 2.20 Lbs
Crystal 120 Grain 120.0 - 0.10 Kg / 0.22 Lbs

Hops (i only can get pellets)

East Kent Golding 4.0% - 30.00 g / 1.06 oz Boil 45 mins
Hersbrucker 4.1% - 10.00 g / 0.35 oz Boil 45 mins
East Kent Golding 4.0% - 30.00 g / 1.06 oz Boil 15 mins
Hersbrucker 4.1% - 10.00 g / 0.35 oz Boil 15 mins
East Kent Golding 4.0% - 10.00 g / 0.35 oz Boil 0 mins
Hersbrucker 4.1% - 10.00 g / 0.35 oz Boil 0 mins

yeast will be Fermentis S-04

i have 30grs rest from hersbrucker, so i will use it too, would be ok mixing it with EKG????
i would like to hear some opinions, as its my second extract batch???


:hat:

Rui

 

[pittsy]

Hi Rui , i'm also a may baby :) sounds like a great party your village enjoys .
I would up the crystal to 200/300g ( more towards 200g ) otherwise you might not notice it .
I would think it's more a pale ale maybe as the ibu is too low for an IPA .
Hope it goes well :thumb:

 

[rui]

i was brewing this today, because had change in my schedules from work and i want to have it in the bottle before i go on vacations.

i made some last minut changes with the Hops.


those were the amounts that used.
East Kent Golding 4.0% - 30.00 g / 1.06 oz Boil 45 mins
East Kent Golding 4.0% - 30.00 g / 1.06 oz Boil 15 mins
Hersbrucker 4.1% - 10.00 g / 0.35 oz Boil 15 mins
East Kent Golding 4.0% - 10.00 g / 0.35 oz Boil 0 mins

Crystal malt



hops




light extarct



bag with hops




relaxing beer in the end - My first extract brew, a witbier



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