Moving on from kits

Poochops said:

Earlier this week I placed an order for my very first partial mash brew :razz:, I got everything for the Imperial Stout out of greg hughes Home Brew Beer, with a view to boosting it up a'la dad of jon's post, adding some DWE and doubling the speciality grains, I'm looking forward to getting cracking I must say!
Went to my local Chinese supermarket today and came out with a 30litre stock pot along with the spring rolls and siu mais! and then on the way to SWMBO'S folk's house we popped into lovebrewing for some bits and pieces. I was reading somewhere about using some base malt in place of some of the DME if possible, so I picked up some maris otter to put in the mash from there as well.
It occurred to me earlier, do I really want 40 pints of 8.5%. stout taking up space and bottles for 6 months before I can start drinking it? so I got to thinking, well I'll do 20 pints of that and 20 pints of a black IPA as well, as some of the grains are the same and I've got loads of suitable hops any way :) just looking for a good recipe now and I'll probably brew it on the yeast cake off the stout. Can't wait to get started:thumb:

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DoctorMick said:

If you want a good black IPA recipe take a look at JFB's in the recipes forum on here, it won the first forum competition and was a really fantastic beer.

Edit: the recipe is here http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=67022

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chub1 said:

One reason i stopped kits was the amount of beer,ie 40 odd pints
Been doing both small batch extract and biab brews and both knock spots off kits imho.
Have tweaked a few known /book recipies but mostly been using the recipe builder available on here to create my own:thumb:

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Poochops said:

Thanks for that, I'll definitely give it a go, I've got those grains and citra and cascade in the cupboard, I've got Amarillo too, would that swap out well for the Apollo in the recipe do you think? I've got challenger and ekg if one of those would be better.

Do you know how much DME a kilo of Maris Otter replaces? I got two kilos, one for each brew. Thanks

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Poochops said:

Thanks for that, I'll definitely give it a go, I've got those grains and citra and cascade in the cupboard, I've got Amarillo too, would that swap out well for the Apollo in the recipe do you think? I've got challenger and ekg if one of those would be better.

Do you know how much DME a kilo of Maris Otter replaces? I got two kilos, one for each brew. Thanks

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Slid said:

One Kilo MO ~ 650g DME

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yeastinfection said:

what does FWH mean in the recipe?

first wort hops..

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Poochops said:

Thanks Slid, so in that black IPA recipe it calls for 6kg pale malt which would work out at 3.9kg of DME does that sound right?
So If I'm doing a half sized batch with a kilo of MO then I'd mash that with the speciality grain and add 1.3kg of DME to the boil.
If I wanted to end up with 11.5litres of wort post boil, could you give me an idea how much to mash and then sparse with please?

I Just ordered some Apollo pellets off eBay, I thought I'd do it to the exact recipe and the rest of the pack will bitter quite a few more brews.

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Poochops said:

Thanks Slid, so in that black IPA recipe it calls for 6kg pale malt which would work out at 3.9kg of DME does that sound right?
So If I'm doing a half sized batch with a kilo of MO then I'd mash that with the speciality grain and add 1.3kg of DME to the boil.
If I wanted to end up with 11.5litres of wort post boil, could you give me an idea how much to mash and then sparse with please?

I Just ordered some Apollo pellets off eBay, I thought I'd do it to the exact recipe and the rest of the pack will bitter quite a few more brews.

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