Hi! Newbie with recipe idea

[joelwaddingham]

Hi there!

Have just moved to the countryside from London, and with the oldest brewery in the UK being my nearest, I couldn't really not pick up the brewing again. I can smell the malt some mornings, it's that near :-)

Had reasonable success with extract and the odd partial mash, but now I'd like to try something new: dark sugar. I hear it's OK to use, but not too much. So to that end I came up with a list of fermentables:

1 x tin Cooper's dark
1 kg dark sugar

Partial mash:

1 kg pale malt
200g roasted flaked barley
200g roasted oats (pre-steeped to avoid gunge in the mash, wort collected to add to the mash)

I'm thinking to do less than a standard 5.5 gallon/40 litre brew as I'm worried about adding any more sugar than this. Any thoughts/suggestions on the recipe as a whole? (bear in mind I haven't started thinking about hops here)

 

[joe1002]

Welcom to the forum :

 

[dennisking]

Hi and welcome, not able help much with extract recipes but generally speaking you would be better using a dark spraymalt rather than sugar.

 

[MandiNKel]

Hi & welcome :)

 

[Rukula]

Welcome mate!

Dry Malt Extract (DME) is a way better option than sugar, and the 1 kg og dark / brown sugar will taste quite extreme. Keep the Coopers can, and replace the sugar with 1KG og Dark dry malt extract.

The partial mash seems fine. Without typing the recipe into some brewing calculator, i have no idea about the alcohol content of this thing.

If i may, i would like to suggest some hops to use. This seems to me like some kind of stout or porter, so Challenger for bittering and Fuggles for aroma makes a brilliant result in this beer style. You don't really need more than 2 hop additions, but if you want, you can add a third.

Edit: I typed the ingredients into Beersmith, with your ammounts and a wanted ammount of 40Ll. Its telling me that this beer will be about 3% ABV