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private4587

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Have chosen this as my next brew, taken from Greg Hughes book
as follows
Grains
Pale malt 5.4kg
Chrystal Malt 60L 230g
Chocolate Malt 8886.5 EBC 90g

Hops
Admiral 14.75% 14g@60min
Challenger 7.5% 14g@whirlpool

Irish moss@15min

Yeast
Danstar/Nottingham 2pks

est OG 1.052
est FG 1.012
est ABV 5.2%
Bitterness 25.7IBUs
Est colour27.2EBC

Any advice would be welcome
Thanks
 
Is this a regular size, 23 liter batch? The griss looks that way but it says 25 IBU with only 14 grams of bitter hops. That's strange.
 
Assuming the yeast packs are 10/11 grams i would have thought that one would be plenty!,just seems like chucking money away!.
 
I ran this through Beersmith and it was this that suggested 2pkts of yeast and gave me the IBU's

Yep 25 IBUs looks about right as the Admiral is high alpha.

The 2 packs of yeast thing is a bit of a bone of contention on the forum. I think you'd be fine with one with an OG of 1.052, but 2 won't hurt - and I for one would defo use 2 if the OG was much higher.
 
I keep meaning to get around to doing this beer. But I personally I wouldnt use notty. It will be ok but I think not is too high attenuating (dry) and clean for English styles. I'd be more inclined to go for something like S0-4 or CML Real Ale if I was going to use dried yeast (I hae some Gales strain in mind for this though)
 

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