Scotch Ale Recipe- Is This Too Much For Biab 20l Urn

[black_labb]

as manticle said, don't worry too much about being exact.

Stylistically a scotch ale is quite malty and not particularly bitter. I'd be going for about 25-30ibu. With an ibu of 50ish as you have there you would end up with a malty esb which would be quite good but possibly not what you're after.

Don't worry about potential extract other than for the base malt. Just put the right style of grain with a similar darkness in and you will be plenty close.

looks good

 

[Truman42]

Thanks for the tips, Im just not experienced enough to know what would be considered too high an IBU for this style.

I think I will reduce the bittering additions down to around 40 and the sparging should dilute that a bit further to be closer to the 32 it should be.

 

[Truman42]

I might have bit off more than I can chew here. With a 5.5 kg grain bill in my 20 litre urn this was bloody hard to dough in.

I doughed in at 74C to try and get a mash temp of 70C but it plummeted down to 65C very quickly. I added water from the kettle and it would climb back to 70C then drop again quite quickly. I even turned on the flame (and stirred quickly to avoid the element burning the bag) but as soon as I killed the flame it would drop again very quickly back to 65C.

So Im mashing at around 66.8C, not the 70C I wanted but it will have to do.

Anyone in the area want to come around and help me pull the bag??

I dont have a sky hook so its going to be bloody heavy thats for sure..