How to brew your own beer - The All Grain method

[seabiscuit]

Off to the Worcester Hop Shop this morning to pick up a sack of marris otter on the way for a day out in Hay On Wye. Should be a good day.

 

[The_blue]

I use them! I have to get mine posted though

 

[Kanifee]

WOW they are cheap form what else i have seen, going to order a grain bill for my first BIAB, can someone have a gander at the recipe and give me some thoughts on it?

 

[The_blue]

Can if you post it

 

[Kanifee]

IPA style with a unique combo of hops, i love these hops on there own in certain beers and lagers and want to try them together, weather it will work i have know idea, what do you think and whats your thoughts on grains?


malt & fermentables
% Kg Malt or Fermentable Yield EBC
80% 4.000 Maris Otter Malt (Thomas Fawcett) 80% 5 ~
10% 0.500 Caramalt (Thomas Fawcett) 73% 25 ~
10% 0.500 Mild Malt 80% 6 ~
5

was thinking about chucking in some



Original Gravity
1.062 / 15.2° Plato
(1.056 to 1.065)
Final Gravity
1.017 / 4.3° Plato
(1.015 to 1.018)
Color
14° EBC / 7° SRM
(Gold to Copper)
Mash Efficiency
75%

hops
use time grams variety form aa
boil 60 mins 15 Stella leaf 15.0
boil 15 mins 20 East Kent Goldings leaf 5.0
boil 15 mins 20 Tettnang leaf 3.8
boil 5 mins 20 East Kent Goldings leaf 5.0
boil 5 mins 20 Tettnang leaf 3.8
dry hop 7 days 20 East Kent Goldings leaf 5.0
dry hop 7 days 20 Tettnang leaf 3.8



Bitterness
47.9 IBU / 8 HBU
ƒ: Tinseth
BU:GU
0.77
yeast
Safale US-05 Dry Yeast


Alcohol
6.0% ABV / 5% ABW
Calories
193 per 1/3 Liter

was thinking about sticking in some challanger in for the last 15 and the dry hop too. thoughts?

 

[seabiscuit]

I use them! I have to get mine posted though

Yeah, would get things delivered, except we were driving virtually past on the way to Hay on Wye, and they said that we could collect our order if it's done by prior arrangement.
So here it is, £46 well spent....


The sack of grain is MUCH larger than it looks there.

And as a bonus, I was able to pick up a homebrew beer book in Hay, so now to look at the recipies.

 

[Mrs Seabiscuit]

Ok for our second biab we are doing an UBU clone we think this may be quite strong as it has 5kg of grain. results will be posted
Also The_Blue those beer tankards look epic where did you by them from?

 

[The_blue]

It was dity cheap off ebay. Also try the charity shops.

 

[The_blue]

Ok for our second biab we are doing an UBU clone we think this may be quite strong as it has 5kg of grain. results will be posted
Also The_Blue those beer tankards look epic where did you by them from?

Try doing an old tom recipie. 7.6 kilo of grain for 23 litres!!!

I did a half recipie.

 

[Mrs Seabiscuit]

Ok i know this sounds stupid but what is the name of it eg a beer goblet/tankard?

 

[The_blue]

erm... tankard i think..

Just make sure it's big enough. There are loads out there that wouldn't hold a cup of tea

 

[seabiscuit]

We've just syphoned into the primary fermenter. OG of 1.054. Used almost 200g of hops! Compared to 40g for our first brew. Eeek. But it was 35g of challenger for 90 mins, and then 50g each of challenger and cascade for the last 5 mins, and then a further 50g of cascade at the end of the boil. I do like cascade though. All the pubs near us that have been oing Mastens Single Hop promotion have given it up as a bad idea, and it's Cascade for May. I'm gutted.

 

[The_blue]

Just ordered a load of stuff from the hop shop.

looking forward to getting some citra and making a grapefruity hoppy IPA for summer

1 x Citra Hops - Alpha 14.5% - 2011 Harvest (Price per 100g) = £3.99
5 x Safale S-04 - Original Packaging (Price per 11.5g pack) = £9.25
1 x Target - Alpha 11.12% - 2011 Harvest (Price per 100g) = £2.25
1 x Flaked Barley (Price Per Kilo) = £1.18
1 x Bobek (Styrian Golding) - Alpha 5.17% - 2011 Harvest (Price per 100g) = £2.25
1 x Challenger - Alpha 7.9% - 2011 Harvest (Price per 100g) = £2.25
1 x (A) Maris Otter Crushed - 25 KG Sack - Thomas Fawcett (Price Per 25KG) = £25.42

 

[Ahleckz]

Was reading Stone's book the other day in the Brewdog pub. They had one recipe which must have had at least 7 different variety of hops and an insane amount of them at that. An awful lot of dry hopping. Need to find this beer!

 

[The_blue]

My citra is going to be a SMaSH brew

Single Malt and single hop.

 

[Ahleckz]

More hops > MORE TASTE!

I adore hops, what can I say.

 

[Kanifee]

Come home to this today

4Kg marris otter
500g mild ale malt
500g caramalt
100g east kent goldings
100g tettnang
4 muslin bags
saflager us-05
mash/grain bag

woohoo the ipa is on!

 

[seabiscuit]

Sounding tasty there Kanifee. We used Nottingham yeast for our hoppy UBU clone, and I'm reading now that it can reduce hoppiness. Bum.
Still, I'm hoping for the best. And it's all a learning experience.
Put all grain #3 in the fermenter yesterday too, a wheat/wit beer. Was fun to make, but we really need a wort chiller and hop filters to get clear wort into the fermenter.
But we've started. It's only forward from here.

 

[The_blue]

really need a wort chiller

http://www.gasproducts.co.uk/

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That and some hoselock bits.

 

[seabiscuit]

Well we barreled our "UBU Clone" last night and had a small try of it. Not much like UBU. It's nice, but much closer to Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in colour, mouthfeel (although I know it needs more carbonation yet which could change that) smell and taste.
Good thing I like SNPA, but unfortunatly MrsSeakitchen is less keen on it. But maybe this will be different enough from that to change her mind.