Extract to all grain recipe

[MarkMayf]

Hi all,

Not sure if this should be in here or the general brewing section. Please move if appropriate.

A while back I had a bit of an experiment adapting the pale ale recipe from Greg Hughes' book, to use up my remaining ingredients.

I used the exact same ingredients as the pale ale, just more of everything.

Here is what I used:

24 litres water
3 kg Light DME
400g Crystal malt, steeped at 65 degC for 30 minutes.
43g Northern brewer 60 minutes
30g Goldings 15 minutes
30g Styrian Goldings 15 minutes
37g Goldings after cooled below 80 degC
34g Styrian Goldings after cooled below 80 degC.
1 sachet Muntons Ale yeast.

20 litres after boil in the fermenter.

Theoretically (Brewers friend) 1055 OG, and 1013 FG. SRM 14.8

I tried a bottle after a couple of weeks conditioning, and it was, OK. But now, after over a month, it's bloody lovely!

So, now that I have dabbled with AG, I want to try and make the same beer but AG.

What would be a good grain bill, for a 23 litre batch?

I'm thinking Maris Otter, and Crystal. But, what level of Crystal.

I have had another play on BF, and have the following bill:

Maris otter 4.9kg
Crystal - 0.5 kg
Torrified wheat 0.25kg

This gives similar numbers to the extract recipe on BF.

The wheat, I haven't used before, but I am wanting to try to help head retention, as my beers tend to fizzle away very quickly.

Thanks

 

[BigDave345]

Hi all,

Not sure if this should be in here or the general brewing section. Please move if appropriate.

A while back I had a bit of an experiment adapting the pale ale recipe from Greg Hughes' book, to use up my remaining ingredients.

I used the exact same ingredients as the pale ale, just more of everything.

Here is what I used:

24 litres water
3 kg Light DME
400g Crystal malt, steeped at 65 degC for 30 minutes.
43g Northern brewer 60 minutes
30g Goldings 15 minutes
30g Styrian Goldings 15 minutes
37g Goldings after cooled below 80 degC
34g Styrian Goldings after cooled below 80 degC.
1 sachet Muntons Ale yeast.

20 litres after boil in the fermenter.

Theoretically (Brewers friend) 1055 OG, and 1013 FG. SRM 14.8

I tried a bottle after a couple of weeks conditioning, and it was, OK. But now, after over a month, it's bloody lovely!

So, now that I have dabbled with AG, I want to try and make the same beer but AG.

What would be a good grain bill, for a 23 litre batch?

I'm thinking Maris Otter, and Crystal. But, what level of Crystal.

I have had another play on BF, and have the following bill:

Maris otter 4.9kg
Crystal - 0.5 kg
Torrified wheat 0.25kg

This gives similar numbers to the extract recipe on BF.

The wheat, I haven't used before, but I am wanting to try to help head retention, as my beers tend to fizzle away very quickly.

Thanks

The Base malt looks fine to me, the Crystal i would reduce to 200/250g
The Torrified Wheat also looks fine also you will notice the differenc with head retention on a full AG as to extract

Be careful with Crystals use a light crystal in a Pale Ale!!

 

[MyQul]

Is this the reciepe on page 122? as there's both AG and exctract versions of the recipe

 

[MarkMayf]

No, it's something I put together to see what would happen.

Same ingredients as the recipe on P122, but different quantities. Compare those in my first post to that in the book.

The pictures show the difference in the beers.

Does it even still count as a pale ale?

I love it either way, so if I can't replicate it by AG, I will do another extract brew.