Recipe Feedback Please?

[Guysmiley54]

Hi guys, I'm working on a recipe for an no chilled american brown ale. I'm considering adding only one joint bittering addition as a cube hop (calculated as a 20min addition) and and the day of pitching draw off a few litres and boil them up for the cascade aroma addition. Chill the aroma addition over an ice bath and pitch.

Amarillo Brown
American Brown Ale

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 23.0
Total Grain (kg): 5.450
Total Hops (g): 90.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.052 (P): 12.9
Colour (SRM): 21.3 (EBC): 41.9
Bitterness (IBU): 35.1 (Average)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 70
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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4.000 kg Pale Ale Malt (73.39%)
1.000 kg Munich I (18.35%)
0.250 kg Chocolate (4.59%)
0.200 kg Caraaroma (3.67%)

Hop Bill
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30.0 g Amarillo Pellet (8.6% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil) (1.3 g/L)
25.0 g Simcoe Pellet (12.2% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil) (1.1 g/L)
35.0 g Cascade Pellet (7.8% Alpha) @ 1 Minutes (Boil) (1.5 g/L)


Single step Infusion at 65C for 60 Minutes. Boil for 60 Minutes

Fermented at 20C with Wyeast 1272

Recipe Generated with BrewMate


I'm looking for something reasonably dark with a restrained amount of sweetness, I'm hoping the caraaroma and chocolate won't be over the top!

Any feedback would be welcomed. Cheers :icon_cheers:

 

[Josh]

I say do it. Recipe looks pretty solid to me.

 

[Guysmiley54]

I say do it. Recipe looks pretty solid to me.

Right on!! :beerbang:

Thanks for the vote of confidence

 

[argon]

I tend to lean towards a 10 min addition for cube hopping. Yesterday i cubed hopped all my beer. The second cube, about 10mins after filling was about 75C and was dropping pretty rapidly. I tend to draw off into the cube pretty slowly after a 10min wait and whirlpool in kettle, so i don't have great amounts of heat in the cube. It takes me about half hour after flameout to fill both cubes.

I reckon if you're filling the cube very quickly after flameout, say 5 mins or less, then that 20min calc sounds about right. But if after flameout you're waiting, whirlpooling, waiting then slow run-off... i reckon closer to 10mins is about right.

Apart from that... i like the grainbill. Cararoma is :icon_drool2:

 

[Guysmiley54]

I tend to lean towards a 10 min addition for cube hopping. Yesterday i cubed hopped all my beer. The second cube, about 10mins after filling was about 75C and was dropping pretty rapidly. I tend to draw off into the cube pretty slowly after a 10min wait and whirlpool in kettle, so i don't have great amounts of heat in the cube. It takes me about half hour after flameout to fill both cubes.

I reckon if you're filling the cube very quickly after flameout, say 5 mins or less, then that 20min calc sounds about right. But if after flameout you're waiting, whirlpooling, waiting then slow run-off... i reckon closer to 10mins is about right.

Apart from that... i like the grainbill. Cararoma is :icon_drool2:

Agreed, Caraoma is da bomb!! :chug:

This will be attempt #3 on no chilling. On the first two, I siphoned immediately on flame out. I let the cold break setlle in the cube and leave the worst of it behind when I transfer to the fermenter. I have found that high alpha hops can be a worry late in the boil. If you don't chill fast enough the bitterness (if not balanced with malt) I have found to be very rough!! I would rather calculate for 20min and have it be a little less than have it blow out

 

[argon]

Agreed, Caraoma is da bomb!! :chug:

This will be attempt #3 on no chilling. On the first two, I siphoned immediately on flame out. I let the cold break setlle in the cube and leave the worst of it behind when I transfer to the fermenter. I have found that high alpha hops can be a worry late in the boil. If you don't chill fast enough the bitterness (if not balanced with malt) I have found to be very rough!! I would rather calculate for 20min and have it be a little less than have it blow out

sweet mate... i used to run-off immediately after flameout and calc at 15-20min, but I wasn't happy with getting too much trub into the cube. Now i have a hop screen, whirlpool and slow-runoff (due to hop screen) the wort going into the cube is crystal and have found i get less trub into fermenter.

Calculate to your process i say... good one
:icon_cheers:

 

[Guysmiley54]

Calculate to your process i say... good one
:icon_cheers:

That is the best tactic I think. I am very early on in this hobby and my equipment is still very basic. I am learning how best to work with what I have.