It's A Girl!, And Recipe Help

[jeddog]

Well, after a few bigs day of watching SWMBO give birth to our second girl. I am proud to introduce
Saphie Hart Buchanan.

She's only small, 6.5 pounds
3 weeks premuture. All's well

Gotta say, I'm not disapointed it's a girl just dissapointed I'll never get a boy as this is our last. Oh well just have to start to piss sitting down

OK, here a problem I have with a 40lt recipe i ordered over this hectic time (I had it crushed and mixed when i bought it)...too much crystal malt
What can i add to fix the recipe. eg. more pale malt?

4.00 kg Pale Malt (Barrett Burston) (2.0 SRM) Grain 41.67 %
2.00 kg Munich II (Weyermann) (8.5 SRM) Grain 20.83 %
2.00 kg Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann) (2.0 SRM) Grain 20.83 %
1.00 kg Carared (Weyermann) (24.0 SRM) Grain 10.42 %
0.60 kg Carafoam (Weyermann) (2.0 SRM) Grain 6.25 %
25.00 gm Amarillo [8.60 %] (60 min) Hops 12.5 IBU
25.00 gm Amarillo [8.60 %] (40 min) Hops 11.0 IBU
25.00 gm Amarillo [8.60 %] (20 min) Hops 7.6 IBU
25.00 gm Amarillo [8.60 %] (15 min) Hops 6.2 IBU
25.00 gm Amarillo [8.60 %] (5 min) Hops 2.5 IBU


any help would be a great help

jeddog

 

[Sammus]

I'm not really sure, more pale malt would certainly counter some of the caramel sweetness though.

On a related note, has anyone done a mash with a high crystal proportion like this, but mashed it really low (62ish) to kinda dry it out? Does it still come through too sweet?

 

[reviled]

Id probably look at upping the pale malt and IBUs to counter the crystal..

Or if thats not easy and you have enough hops on hand, hop the living **** out of it, im talking an insane amount of IBUs, over 100, and alot of late and dry hopping will easily counter all the caramel sweetness In fact all that crystal will hold the hops up high and it will be awesome :icon_drool2:

 

[chappo1970]

Barleywine? And put it down for a while.

BTW Congrats she is as cute as a button. Obviously takes after mum?

Makes me wanna go home and throw the leg over the old boot. :huh:

 

[Kleiny]

Congrats on the new arrival

as chap said up the base malt and maybe a higher IBU Barley wine

Bottle it in champagne bottles and open it on her b day each year making sure you can share one with her in 18 years.

Kleiny

 

[buttersd70]

Makes me wanna go home and throw the leg over the old boot. :huh:

Makes me wanna throw the leg over your old boot, too. h34r:

Grats, J.

Only suggestion I'd make re recipe is to up the base to the point where the carared+carafoam is < 10% total.

 

[jeddog]

Iv'e worked it out. Mix all the grain very well then halve, add 5kg extra pale malt to each half.

Leaving a nice grain bill for two 40lt brews.
Using the joe white pale malt coz my LHBS has it.

This is how it will look for each 40lt batch


Batch Size: 40.00 L
Boil Size: 47.96 L
Estimated OG: 1.058 SG
Estimated Color: 6.6 SRM
Estimated IBU: 39.3 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.00 kg Pale Malt, Trad Ale(Joe White) (3.0 SRM) Grain 51.02 %
2.00 kg Pale Malt (Barrett Burston) (2.0 SRM) Grain 20.41 %
1.00 kg Munich II (Weyermann) (8.5 SRM) Grain 10.20 %
1.00 kg Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann) (2.0 SRM) Grain 10.20 %
0.50 kg Carared (Weyermann) (24.0 SRM) Grain 5.10 %
0.30 kg Carafoam (Weyermann) (2.0 SRM) Grain 3.06 %
25.00 gm Amarillo [8.60 %] (60 min) Hops 12.4 IBU
25.00 gm Amarillo [8.60 %] (40 min) Hops 10.9 IBU
25.00 gm Amarillo [8.60 %] (20 min) Hops 7.5 IBU
25.00 gm Amarillo [8.60 %] (15 min) Hops 6.1 IBU
25.00 gm Amarillo [8.60 %] (5 min) Hops 2.5 IBU
0.80 items Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 min) Misc
1.00 items Immersion Chiller (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1.00 tbsp Yeast Nutrient (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
1.00 item Wyeast 1056 Yeast


jeddog

 

[AndrewQLD]

What a cutie, she doesn't look premy and I bet your wife didn't think she was that small at the time, congratulations to you both.

Andrew

 

[jeddog]

yeah... she did complain a bit.


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