I've ordered 4kg of Maris Otter, 100g of EKG and 100g of Summit Hops from The Home Brew Company.
The idea is to do a couple of small scale SMaSH brews to hone my skills and learn about the ingredients from a brewers perspective. My first thought was to do a mash for a 10l batch, then split the wort in half and do two different boils with the two hops, however that's more than likely a recipe for disaster as from experience my mind goes blank when I overload my tiny brain with too much of a new thing!! So, I'm going to go really simple and do two separate 5l batches first time round.
The simplest thing to do would be to follow the advice given on Clibit's Simple AG thread for both batches. My question to you more experienced brewers is, if I follow the recipe on this thread, will the two hops I use produce significantly different beers?
Ideally I'd like to produce two beers with different characteristics; a malty beer with one batch and a more hop forward brew with the other. My guess is the Summit would be more suited to the hop forward beer, but that's kind of based on nothing more than a guess at the moment :-)
Yeast will be Safale US-05. Any suggestions for alternatives would be appreciated, however I'd like to use the same yeast with both batches.
I'd appreciate any help with perhaps tinkering (or not) with Clibit's basic recipe to meet my needs!
Cheers
The idea is to do a couple of small scale SMaSH brews to hone my skills and learn about the ingredients from a brewers perspective. My first thought was to do a mash for a 10l batch, then split the wort in half and do two different boils with the two hops, however that's more than likely a recipe for disaster as from experience my mind goes blank when I overload my tiny brain with too much of a new thing!! So, I'm going to go really simple and do two separate 5l batches first time round.
The simplest thing to do would be to follow the advice given on Clibit's Simple AG thread for both batches. My question to you more experienced brewers is, if I follow the recipe on this thread, will the two hops I use produce significantly different beers?
Ideally I'd like to produce two beers with different characteristics; a malty beer with one batch and a more hop forward brew with the other. My guess is the Summit would be more suited to the hop forward beer, but that's kind of based on nothing more than a guess at the moment :-)
Yeast will be Safale US-05. Any suggestions for alternatives would be appreciated, however I'd like to use the same yeast with both batches.
I'd appreciate any help with perhaps tinkering (or not) with Clibit's basic recipe to meet my needs!
Cheers
