Recipe Advice Thread

[denimglen]

Thought it might be handy to have a thread for some of the more advanced brewers to give some advice on recipes.

Let's see how it goes eh...

[Stu McKinlay]

what about a 500ml beer with the homegrown hop as a hopburst at 10min? 22g per litre is a pretty impressive stat!

[denimglen]

Why don't you brew an ultra-small batch, like a six pack IPA? 2000mL? Ferment in one of those 5L glass jugs.

Then you go from like 1g/L to 5g/L. Sounds much better I reckon. In that case I'd go something like 1/3 total aroma weight at 15mins then 2/3 total aroma weight at 0 mins. Or your ratiio from your favourite I/A-PA.

EDIT: Argh, Stu beat me to it.

[Steve Baker]

I think Wyeast or Whitelabs discovered that 5 litre brews are about as small as you can get away with before things happen in the fermentation which affect the flavour.

My hop yield was about 150g dried, so I've got a few full brews to play with.

[denimglen]

Got a link to that info? Would be a good read.

Do you know if they were talking about pitch size? Or was it more to do with fermenter geometry, pressures and that side of thing?

[Steve Baker]

It was in a podcast, either Basic Brewing or Craftbrewer Radio - sorry I can't remember which or when.

They were talking about testing yeast in pilot brews and they found that any smaller than 5 litres tasted different to large brews

[Quinn]

hey there where abouts do you live and are hops easy to grow?

I grow alot of chillies and other stuff in christchurch but i wouldnt mind giving hops a go

[Reviled]

How about this for a bland (ish) ale - something for Nicoles bday that the masses can drink, but not bland enough for me to not want to drink any of it.. This is what im thinkin, should give me OG about 1041 and IBU's 23

3kg Global Pils
250g Munich
20 : 15g each of Cascade, Pacific Halleratu, Motueka
Something simple like S-05 or wlp001


Thoughts??? Maybe from the master of the bland ale JT?? ;o)

[JoKing]

Yum - very diverse types of hops, should be quite well rounded in flavour. Any thoughts on mash temp and FG?

[Reviled]

Yeah first time for me using Pacific H and Motueka, and im gonna give NZ cascade another chance in this lol. Thinking mash at 66*c, and id gamble a house deposit that it will finish at 1010! I can never seem to get lower than that, ever...

[jt]

Rehydrated 05 gets me 1.040 / 42 to 1.008 everytime in that grist

[jt]

Just balance it up to og:bu 55-60% with half your IBU at 60 mins

I'd flag the munich and go 2.5% wheat and 2.5% medium crystal (or lighter)
Don't know about that combo of hops, never contemplated that sort of mix.
If you want blande with a bit of flavour, use Pac Hall @ 10 & 1 (though I prefer the lime of NZ Hall, never got orange from Pac hall)
The cascade would be flavoursome any combo from 30 onwards
The Mot would be stunning @ 10 & 1
And just to piss u off, it'd probably turn out quite Hopsmackery ha ha ha

[Reviled]

lol, if it turned out hopsmackery I wouldnt be the one pissed off ;o)

I was trying to avoid crystal and thought I might be able to get a bit more malt character through some Munich, I like the idea of a bit of wheat tho...

So you think add a 60 min addition and move the other additions later, say 10 and 1?