Advice please on recipe

[cnelsonplumber]

Tomorrow is by first real AG and I was thinking of brewing the following:

Leading the blind

This is a recipe created from ingredients I have using the tools in the recipe section to give me a sensible IBU and colour.
I must say that the recipe section calculators are another first class part of this excellent forum which will only get better once my IT is up to speed!

I have thought about switching the Fuggles and Cascade which makes it more similar to several other beers

 

[richc]

Personally I'd swap the fuggles and the cascade, or some mix of the two. A 90 and a 60 addition seems a bit of a waste as both will give almost entirely bitterness.

May be fuggles at 90 and then a mix of cascade and fuggles at 20 and 5?

Personally I'd tend to use a bit more crystal as well but that is personal taste.

 

[Good Ed]

I would agree with rich, also not much reason to use such small quantities of chocolate & black malt, I would drop them and use 5-7% crystal and the rest pale. Fuggles will give you a nice tasty bittering and cascade are really a late aroma hop which is all grapefruit, so adjust to your pallette. good luck with the brew :

 

[Good Ed]

How about

Pale 93%
Crystal 7%

Fuggles 90 min 25 IBU
Cascade 15 min 7 IBU
Cascade 5 min 3 IBU
Cascade 25g aroma 20 min steep at 80C

I think you'll get a nice APA with this :

 

[battwave]

I would agree with rich, also not much reason to use such small quantities of chocolate & black malt, I would drop them and use 5-7% crystal and the rest pale. Fuggles will give you a nice tasty bittering and cascade are really a late aroma hop which is all grapefruit, so adjust to your pallette. good luck with the brew :

Having got one fermenting at the moment with 50 + 50g chocolate and roast barley (albeit with crystal also), I'd defend small quantities of these as (hopefully) giving subtle tastes, without the tongue-clacking bite of darker beers. My 12-hour, overnight, mash has left it pretty dark though.

As a lover of light hoppy beers, I looked at the recipe with interest, but also warmed to the earlier suggestion of adding cascade. If nothing else, this will be an interesting brew - let's celebrate the freedom that AG gives us :thumb:

 

[Good Ed]

Having got one fermenting at the moment with 50 + 50g chocolate and roast barley (albeit with crystal also), I'd defend small quantities of these as (hopefully) giving subtle tastes, without the tongue-clacking bite of darker beers. My 12-hour, overnight, mash has left it pretty dark though.

Sorry Batt, I didn't mean to be dismissive of adding small quantities; Big Kenny is a good example of such; I just thought cnelsonplumber would be better getting to know pale and crystal first before discovering other tastes. Good luck with the brew :thumb:

 

[battwave]

Sorry Batt, I didn't mean to be dismissive of adding small quantities; Big Kenny is a good example of such; I just thought cnelsonplumber would be better getting to know pale and crystal first before discovering other tastes. Good luck with the brew :thumb:

No dismissiveness perceived Ed; this is just what I love: there's no perfect brew, no right answers (a few wrong ones mind-you!), and a lifetime of discovery ahead of us!

 

[cnelsonplumber]

Thisis the final recipe incorporating ideas from you guys. It is a little darker than I thought it might be but I kinda like that.

The final gravity was 1056 which is a couple of points higher than calculated and it's currently fermenting away merrily.

Hope to bring some to the Spring Thing :drunk: