RecipeDB - Skippy

[dannbrew]

Skippy

Stout - Robust Porter
Partial

Brewer's Notes

Tettnanger hops first, Williamette hops last. Instead of 'Geneic DME', I used the Country Brewer Stout Mix.

Malt & Fermentables

%	KG	Fermentable
	0.25 kg	JWM Chocolate Malt
	0.25 kg	Weyermann Carapils(Carafoam)
	0.25 kg	JWM Dark Crystal
	3 kg	Generic LME - Dark
	1 kg	Generic DME - Dark

Hops

Time	Grams	Variety	Form	AA
	12 g	Tettnang (Pellet, 4.5AA%, 0mins)
	12 g	Williamette (Pellet, 5.5AA%, 10mins)

Yeast

50 ml

White Labs WLP380 - Hefeweizen IV Ale

19L Batch Size

Brew Details

• Original Gravity 1.074 (calc)
• Final Gravity 1.018 (calc)
• Bitterness 2.7 IBU
• Efficiency 75%
• Alcohol 7.31%
• Colour 67 EBC
• Batch Size 19L

Fermentation

• Primary 7 days
• Secondary 7 days
• Conditioning 2 days

 

[MHB]

Frankly I wouldn't be brewing this, if you have is it as sickly sweet as it sounds?
3 IBU's, I would have thought 30 (minimum) would be closer to what you would need to balance that much malt.
Heff yeast - in a beer without any Wheat in it?
I always thought Hefferwisen yeast needed some of the ingredients in the wheat to act on to give the classic wheat flavours. Maybe that's wrong are there any Heff flavours or was it just the yeast you had on hand?
Mate it's always good to experiment but there are some fundamental things you need to get your head around when you want to start designing a recipe, the first is BALANCE.

MHB

PS
Just doing a quick calc on the recipe to get the numbers you have reported, you're only getting 30% extraction from the grain and I get close to 200 EBC, and yes about 3 IBU if you boiled at full gravity.
I usually don't bother reading recipe threads; I was just hoping that someone had come up with a really creative use for the AHB member of the same name

M

 

[bum]

MHB, in case you were wondering here is another of dannbrew's recipes. This one is an absolute corker!

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum//ind...amp;recipe=1069

 

[Greg Lawrence]

He did say that he use the Country brewer stout mix. This could have been hopped.
If its the CB wetpack that he is referring to, it is hopped

 

[manticle]

If you check the brewer's notes, you'll see that the dark DME is actually a stout kit (presumably pre-bittered).

 

[Greg Lawrence]

MHB, in case you were wondering here is another of dannbrew's recipes. This one is an absolute corker!

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum//ind...amp;recipe=1069

I'll have to agree. That is a very special beer.

 

[bum]

Gregor and manticle, I suspect dannbrew is talking about this: http://www.countrybrewer.com.au/category43_1.htm#3006

 

[MHB]

Un F-ing Believable!

What really gets my goat (yes bad choice of words considering) is that its called Skippy because its Hoppy Not.

M

 

[manticle]

Gregor and manticle, I suspect dannbrew is talking about this: http://www.countrybrewer.com.au/category43_1.htm#3006

Oh.

Maybe the recipe might need a tiny, tiny tweak then.