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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...

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Heres something I'm considering brewing in a similar vein to Macs Sassy Red. Just making it up and never used gladfields malts before. Any opinions or suggestions appreciated.

40L brew

Ingredients:
8.0 kg (88.8%) Malteurop Pale Ale - added during mash
.3 kg (3.3%) Carared®; Weyermann - added during mash
0.21 kg (2.3%) Red Back Malt; Gladfield - added during mash
0.2 kg (2.2%) Toffee Malt ; Gladfield - added during mash
.2 kg (2.2%) Caramunich® TYPE I; Weyermann - added during mash
.1 kg (1.1%) Carafa Special® TYPE II; Weyermann - added during mash


30 g (15.4%) Warrior® (16.0%) - added during boil, boiled 60 m
35 g (17.9%) Riwaka (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 30 m
30 g (15.4%) motueka (7%) - added during boil, boiled 20 m
25 g (12.8%) Riwaka (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 10 m
25 g (12.8%) Riwaka (5.5%) - added during boil
50.0 g (25.6%) Czech Saaz (5.0%) - added during boil


Original Gravity: 1.049
Terminal Gravity: 1.012
Color: 13.41 SRM
Alcohol: 4.86%
Bitterness: 49.4

Probably use either the West coast or Bohemian Lager yeast from mangrove jacks depending on if I can be bothered waiting an extra 6 weeks to larger

Not sure the EBC of some of that malt, but plenty of lightweight crystal malt is a good start.
The IBU might be on te high side, not sure, thought it was around 80% BU:OG. I think a good beer in that vein is more about the late hops?

Cheers, jt

So I'm bottling my Rauchbier this weekend after 5 weeks lagering at around 5C. Can you guys tell me if I need to add conditioning yeast at bottling time? I have 15L brew and will bottle with 2.5 CO2 level using sugar.

My last 2 lagers I 'lagered' for 4-6 weeks dropping slowly down to just below 5C and they both carb'ed up okay but slowly... really needed about 6 weeks (500ml bottle with 1/4 teaspoon of sugar) before carb'ing up properly.

Lager yeast takes the lower temps much better than ales yeast... so you should not need to use a bottling yeast... but is not saying you can not.

Thanks Grant. I've got them sitting in a warm spot in the kitchen so will give it the time it needs there to do the job.

I was thinking of brewing a mild as my next experiment, so my first question (from doing some reading) is - what is a mild ale malt? (refer: http://byo.com/stories/item/1151-mild-ale-its-not-dead-yet)

Also - does anyone else have any experience brewing a mild that they'd like to share?

I am looking at doing a few mild's shortly once I get my next grain order in, I am going to use pale malt with them,

Have a look at BJCP style 11A English Brown Ale which is what I was basing mine on

Beersmith has got some info on the style under Mild, below is what I am going to try first up if I can find the caramel rye and wheat in NZ, hopefully it's got enough body to cover the low alc %

 

2.620 kg GladField Pale Ale (6.0 SRM) Grain 1 78.0 %
0.190 kg Caraaroma (130.0 SRM) Grain 2 5.7 %
0.190 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 3 5.7 %
0.100 kg Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 4 3.0 %
0.080 kg Carafa I (Weyermann) (320.0 SRM) Grain 5 2.4 %
0.080 kg Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 6 2.4 %
0.050 kg Caramel Rye (Weyermann) (35.0 SRM) Grain 7 1.5 %
0.050 kg Caramel Wheat Malt (46.0 SRM) Grain 8 1.5 %
35.000 g Fuggles [4.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 9 19.0 IBUs
10.000 g Fuggles [4.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 10 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg Ringwood Ale (Wyeast Labs #1187) [124.21 ml] Yeast 11 -

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.035 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.011 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 3.1 %
Bitterness: 19.0 IBUs
Est Color: 16.4 SRM

 

Thanks Hamish :)

I was considering the following

61% Maris Otter

9% Munich

9% Vienna

9% Medium crystal

5% Chocolate 

2% Rosted barley

2% Biscuit

2% Special B

Mash around 68-69 so it leaves a little body

14 BU of EKG @ 60

5 BU of EKG @ 15

Mangrove Jacks British ale to ferment (M07)

Est OG: 1.038

Est FG: 1.011 (high mash)

IBU: 19

Colour: 22 °L

I was looking at 69 for 40 minutes, 72 for 20 minutes then mash out for 10 minutes at 76,

I was tossing up with using S04 sue to it never really finishing that low, I used the M07 in a brew that I kegged a couple of days ago but forgot to take an FG reading, from what I have seen so far with the mangrove jacks is it will go well below the FG you expect so would be wary of using it,

I am chewing a NZ Draught sort of brew with their west coast yeast on what was supposed to a 4% beer and it finished so low it took away any body and finished dry as a nuns nasty, it was a re-brew of something I did with 1056 as a comparison and it really didn't do the beer any good, kind of wrecked it but what's a man to do, I made the mistake so I am fixing it by drinking 20L of average beer

At least its 20L of your own average beer. If this comes out crap it'll be shipped to my dad and brother asap.

I had a similar issue with the m44 ... but it started at 1.082 ... finished at 1.016 ish (just measured it again). Its dry hopping at the moment ... tastes a bit dry though. Not too bad.

I did a porter with the M07 which is in the keg at the minute. Ill give it a taste tomorrow but it ended up being about 75% attenuation. I mashed a bit low though.

thank you that saved me some hunting, cheers

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