Fantoman
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Hi all, I am currently looking at moving from K&K to all extract brewing with my own hop schedules, etc, but at the moment, I only have the ability to do a boil of around 6 liters (stock pot on stove) and am wondering if the small boil size affects the hop utilization as much as Beersmith thinks it does...
I am currently looking at doing the following recipe, and beersmith shows the IBU's of a 6 liter boil as 19.1 which is really low, but if I up the boil size to 23 litres, then it goes up to 31.5 which is within the style... Am also wondering if the recipe below looks ok in general as it will be my first full boil with my own hop schedule, etc... am looking for something similar to LCPA...
Am also contemplating steeping some Crystal in this as well but i'm not sure how much to use and am also after any other advice people have for the budding all extract brewer....
0.50 kg Wheat Dry Extract
3.00 kg Pale Liquid Extract
15.00 gm Centennial [9.40%] (60 min)
15.00 gm Cascade [6.30%] (60 min)
15.00 gm Centennial [9.40%] (30 min)
15.00 gm Cascade [6.30%] (30 min)
15.00 gm Cascade [6.30%] (10 min)
1 Pkgs SafAle US-05 yeast
I will hopefully have a brew fridge with a fridgegmate by the weekend so will have this at 18c for 7 days and then rack to secondary where it will most likely stay until I get a keg system in the next 4-6 weeks (that way I will hopefully have a really tasty nicely aged beer in my first keg... that's the plan anyway B) ).
Any other advice is welcome as well as I've only done around 6 K&K brews and am totally hooked! :icon_chickcheers:
I am currently looking at doing the following recipe, and beersmith shows the IBU's of a 6 liter boil as 19.1 which is really low, but if I up the boil size to 23 litres, then it goes up to 31.5 which is within the style... Am also wondering if the recipe below looks ok in general as it will be my first full boil with my own hop schedule, etc... am looking for something similar to LCPA...
Am also contemplating steeping some Crystal in this as well but i'm not sure how much to use and am also after any other advice people have for the budding all extract brewer....
0.50 kg Wheat Dry Extract
3.00 kg Pale Liquid Extract
15.00 gm Centennial [9.40%] (60 min)
15.00 gm Cascade [6.30%] (60 min)
15.00 gm Centennial [9.40%] (30 min)
15.00 gm Cascade [6.30%] (30 min)
15.00 gm Cascade [6.30%] (10 min)
1 Pkgs SafAle US-05 yeast
I will hopefully have a brew fridge with a fridgegmate by the weekend so will have this at 18c for 7 days and then rack to secondary where it will most likely stay until I get a keg system in the next 4-6 weeks (that way I will hopefully have a really tasty nicely aged beer in my first keg... that's the plan anyway B) ).
Any other advice is welcome as well as I've only done around 6 K&K brews and am totally hooked! :icon_chickcheers: