Siborg
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I'm having a bit of a play with beer tools, using some recipes I've read a few times in BYO magazine, and modifying them to suit my equipment and playing around with the ingredients to achieve a similar beer profile. I decided that I wanted to make it a little heavier in alcohol content, but keep the bitterness and colour the same. Here's the beer tools output:
Ralph's Heavy IPA
14-B American IPA
Size: 23.18 L
Efficiency: 68.0%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Calories: 228.0 kcal per 12.0 fl oz
Original Gravity: 1.068 (1.056 - 1.075)
Terminal Gravity: 1.017 (1.010 - 1.018)
Color: 8.01 (6.0 - 15.0)
Alcohol: 6.74% (5.5% - 7.5%)
Bitterness: 59.3 (40.0 - 70.0)
Ingredients:
2 kg Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt
.05 kg Crystal 100
2 kg Dry Extra Light
1.5 kg Liquid Light Extract
50 g Columbus (11.0%) - added during boil, boiled 90 min
30 g Ahtanum (8.0%) - added during boil, boiled 0.0 min
30 g Amarillo (8.5%) - added dry to secondary fermenter
1 ea White Labs WLP007 Dry English Ale
The details of the one I am basing this on is:
OG=1060, FG=1014, IBU=62, ABV=6.0%
Now the recipe didn't call for any crystal to be added. I've just added it because I wanted to darken the colour a little bit without adding too much extra OG/FG. Can anyone suggest a grain that I can add just a little bit to control the colour a bit without changing the flavour or gravity too much? I've found that my FG is at the upper limits of the style guidlines and the SRM was at the lower limits until I added the crystal. I'm new to all this grain stuff so I'm not sure if the crystal was a good choice as it may change the flavour to what its supposed to be like. Then again, I'm modifying a recipe, so it might be ok.
I've found playing around with beer tools has been really beneficial in learning how what affects what when you 'add a little more' or 'take out a bit' of each ingredient. I'll probably be buying this program after the trial runs out.
For anyone that is new to this like me, I'd highly recommend finding a clone recipe, find out what style it is (for the guidelines) and enter it into a program such as beer tools and play with it to suit the equipment you have. You'll find you won't get exactly the same numbers as the recipe quotes, but you can play with ingredient portions and get pretty close.
Ralph's Heavy IPA
14-B American IPA
Size: 23.18 L
Efficiency: 68.0%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Calories: 228.0 kcal per 12.0 fl oz
Original Gravity: 1.068 (1.056 - 1.075)
Terminal Gravity: 1.017 (1.010 - 1.018)
Color: 8.01 (6.0 - 15.0)
Alcohol: 6.74% (5.5% - 7.5%)
Bitterness: 59.3 (40.0 - 70.0)
Ingredients:
2 kg Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt
.05 kg Crystal 100
2 kg Dry Extra Light
1.5 kg Liquid Light Extract
50 g Columbus (11.0%) - added during boil, boiled 90 min
30 g Ahtanum (8.0%) - added during boil, boiled 0.0 min
30 g Amarillo (8.5%) - added dry to secondary fermenter
1 ea White Labs WLP007 Dry English Ale
The details of the one I am basing this on is:
OG=1060, FG=1014, IBU=62, ABV=6.0%
Now the recipe didn't call for any crystal to be added. I've just added it because I wanted to darken the colour a little bit without adding too much extra OG/FG. Can anyone suggest a grain that I can add just a little bit to control the colour a bit without changing the flavour or gravity too much? I've found that my FG is at the upper limits of the style guidlines and the SRM was at the lower limits until I added the crystal. I'm new to all this grain stuff so I'm not sure if the crystal was a good choice as it may change the flavour to what its supposed to be like. Then again, I'm modifying a recipe, so it might be ok.
I've found playing around with beer tools has been really beneficial in learning how what affects what when you 'add a little more' or 'take out a bit' of each ingredient. I'll probably be buying this program after the trial runs out.
For anyone that is new to this like me, I'd highly recommend finding a clone recipe, find out what style it is (for the guidelines) and enter it into a program such as beer tools and play with it to suit the equipment you have. You'll find you won't get exactly the same numbers as the recipe quotes, but you can play with ingredient portions and get pretty close.