So the lovely chaps at Wigram Brewery helped me out today with 10 KG pale malt, 500g Crystal and 200g Chocolate.All milled together.. I believe, split into two amounts, this will give me a couple of 19 litre batches after boil etc. He also gave me some NZ Golding pellets - 4.8 AA. .Honestly can't say enough great things about Paul..Had a couple of beers and a great time in my lunch hour...
I've been playing with Beersmith and have most of the equipment settings all done..Using a 38 litre rubbermaid as mash/lauter tun and a 40 litre pot to boil in....I'm keen to do a basic ale or IPA using the above malts as my first all grainer and have just found the new recipe button..I've played around adding the respective amounts of the malts etc but am stuck on the hops addition...I've added NZ Golding to the Hops list with respective AA ratings under the 'both' category
Questions I am stuck on - no doubt simple answers..
Why is 19l the magic number that keeps appearing in beersmith and online discussions ..IF i wanted to end up with 25 litres does beersmith automatically change stuff around and if so, where do I do it?
How do I know how much of the hops (grams) I want to add...Is it based on the IBU number for a certain style? Is it as simple as upping the grams on each addition - currently one at 60, 30 and aroma at 15 mins until the IBU gets to an acceptable level?
How do I export my recipe so I can create a brewsheet for the day?
and finally...Sorry for the questions...are the above grains suitable for creating a simple ale or IPA or should I be adding others...
Thanks so much folks for your time...I appreciate ongoing questions can be a pain in the butt sometimes.
Ged