Golden summer beer recipe from the home-brew handbook

[timbowden]

HI All,
Has anyone brewed the golden summer beer recipe from the home-brew handbook (Dave law and Beshlie Grimes)? Im thinking of brewing it this weekend but the original gravity and final % seems off to me? The original gravity is 1073 and final is 1010 giving a %of only 4.5%. Surely an original gravity that high would result in a beer much stronger than 4.5%. Ill also be using Mangrove Jacks Belgian Abbey M47 Yeast.
Any help would be appreciated

 

[Portreath]

Wozzers, that sounds right of target. Most, if not all of my beers are between 3.8 & 5.8 and I've never gotten anywhere close to 1.073. I guess that would come out at plus 8% I don't have the book, but I'd like to take a peep at the recipe.

 

[timbowden]

i know! Ive noticed a few things in this book which have been off target or just plain wrong with info!

 

[Ben034]

I remember reading a while ago that people had noticed a few errors in this book. I have a copy at home but haven't looked in a while. What's the total grain bill in kg for the recipe in the book?

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/the-homebrew-handbook-dave-law-beshlie-grimes.60123/

 

[timbowden]

I remember reading a while ago that people had noticed a few errors in this book. I have a copy at home but haven't looked in a while. What's the total grain bill in kg for the recipe in the book?

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/the-homebrew-handbook-dave-law-beshlie-grimes.60123/

5.2kg total grain bill

 

[timbowden]

There are some good recipes in the book but some do need to be re-jigged a bit but this just seemed a bit wrong!

 

[MmmmCitra]

1.070 down to 1.010 gives an ABV of 7.88% if my calculations are correct.......(not always a given though) lol

 

[timbowden]

1.070 down to 1.010 gives an ABV of 7.88% if my calculations are correct.......(not always a given though) lol

Thats sort of what i thought. I only want it about 4-4.5% so will probably adjust the grain bill down a bit to 4.5kg's?