What to do with these ingredients

[lilslugger]

Hi all, first post. Been brewing for a couple of years now and love my hobby!

What would you do with the following:
A big sack of Pilsner malt
A big sack of MO
A big sack of wheat
A big sack of Munich
A little aromatic malt
A little special b

Some safbrew t58
Some harvested Berliner Weisse yeast
Some wheat beer yeast harvested
Plenty of S04

200g Aramis hops
100g ekg
100g fuggles

A Desire to make some very dark candy syrup
A 50l set up
A desire to use one of my copper coils to try a triple or double step mash for the first time

Oh and a temperate concrete garage @15c and a temperate kitchen @19c

I'm getting quite excited just typing it out!

lilslugger

 

[Gerryjo]

Sounds like a microbrewery in the making.
I have a habit of being experimental as my last brew consisted of pale malt,Maris Otter, whiskey malt,oats, wheat, Château ruby and Cara red with a Belgian yeast from crossmyloof which is too be transferred to a secondary fermenter shortly.

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[lilslugger]

Cheers GerryJo.

That brew sounds very interesting!

I'm thinking:
45l batch
10kg Pilsner
1kg Munich
1kg wheat
200g special b
200g aromatic
2.5kg very dark candi syrup in boil

50g Aramis at 60min
25g Aramis at 20min
(IBUs to about 30)

Mash 30 mins at 63c, 50mins at 70c, sparge at 75c

Pitch half with T58
pitch quarter with the Berliner Weisse
Pitch quarter with wheat beer yeast (just to see)

Can't quite figure out the alcohol return from my phone but I'd imagine it'll be super high

 

[henteaser]

By "big sack" do you mean 25kg?

If so, I'd go with several batches;

- Belgian Wit (50% wheat, 50% MO + Safbrew t58)
- Dunkelweizen (50% wheat, the rest Pils, MO, Munich and the darker malts + Wheat yeast)
- Weisse (30% wheat, 70% pils + Berliner Weisse yeast)

There's not a lot you could do wrong with the hops with these styles, as none of them would suit a massive aroma addition. I'd maybe do a flame-out on the Dunkleweizen, but the others I'd want the yeast to dominate the beer.

You could also try a decoction stepped mash on the Dunkleweizen!

Jealous you're this spoilt for choice!! :lol:

 

[lilslugger]

Great ideas henteaser. Yes they're 25kg sacks. Three recipes a nice idea! No darker malt in at the mo. My last dunkelweizen, 'Pig Rider' was lovely though 😛🍺. Do people usually use a coil to heat up the mash? It seemed a reasonable way of doing it.

A Belgian dubbel, the Berliner Weisse you mentioned and the dunkelweizen are faves so far :)