Trade Winds - Cairngorm Brewery

[Mike1892]

Hi there,

I am planning to have a go at cloning a beer called Trade Winds by Cairngorm Brewery. I have found an All Grain recipe on line, but was wondering how this can be converted to extract? From googling, I understand that you should use approx 3/4 as much extract as grain, but, looking at the below recipe, I am not clear whether I should use 1kg wheat and steep it for an hour, or use 750g of wheat malt extract. If I was to use approx 2.5kg pale malt extract, and 750g wheat malt extract (3/4 of the amount of the grains), i would be using 3.25kg of malt, which would be a pretty powerful brew compared to the original beer, which is 4.3%.

The recipe I found is as follow:

Yeast - US-05

Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 7 lbs. 2.6 oz 3250 grams 73.8%
Wheat Malt 3.5 EBC 2 lbs. 3.3 oz 1000 grams 23%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 0 lbs. 5.3 oz 150 grams 3%
Black Malt 1300 EBC 0 lbs. 0.4 oz 10 grams 0.2%

Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Magnum Whole 14.2 % 90 mins 0 lbs. 0.5 oz 15 grams 70.2%
Perle Whole 9.45 % 10 mins 0 lbs. 0.7 oz 20 grams 21.1%
Perle Whole 9.45 % 5 mins 0 lbs. 0.5 oz 15 grams 8.7%
Dried elderflowers 25g post boil steep (30mins)
Dried elderflowers 25g Dry Hop (or dry flower!) day 3/4.

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.043
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 4.3% ABV
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 35 EBU
Colour: 17 EBC

Any advice welcome.

Mike.

 

[cheshirehomebrew]

Never tried converting I use grain and extract together to brew my beer to a vague recipe of an IPA which is my beer of choice.

you could be cheeky and call the brewery ask to speak to the head brewer, either he will help you which is great, or wont in which case you havent lost anything by asking