Foxfire
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So the wife and I are brewing under the house name of Nimbus Brewery - Cloudy with a chance of ale.
And I've always liked Star Fox - the main character of which is called Fox McCloud. We recently did a brew of some red ale that was amazing, so I wanted to combine all these things.
The goal is to use all the puns and links together and hopefully get a decent tasting beer at the end. So I've absolutely no idea how the taste of these things will match, just hoping I get lucky. Not to mention it being simple as it's the first thing I'll be splashing together.
Galaxy Hops - Obviously the link to galaxy and stars there
Fox McCloud - Linking to Nimbus Brewery
Red ale - foxes are red (well orange, but I wanted a nice red ale so I'm going with that).
We downloaded the Beersmith 2 trial version and started adding things and playing with the colour. I think I've got everything I need - but I'm a not sure about the spec grains and what I can use. I think I've got way too much, but the picture has the colour I'm after. Before I started adding ingredients, I was hoping to hit around 20 IBU with an ABV around 5-5.5% or so.
With that in mind I started plugging stuff into Beersmith.
1 kg Crystal 40L Steeped
1 kg Dark Dry Extract
2 kg Light Dry Exract
Galaxy Hops
So I plugged that in, adjusting values till I got the beer colour I wanted. It actually worked out to be fairly close to my IBU and ABV.
Beersmith is telling me that it should be 21.6 IBU and 5.3% ABV with a 1.053 OG and 1.012 FG.
The arrows are sitting all in the middle of the green so it should be right for an Irish Ale.
So to get to the point (finally), what I'm wondering is whether I should make any changes? Use different steep, mix in more types of grains? Do I need to add dextrose, or is that just if I want a higher ABV at the end? I've also gone with 30g dry hop as I read someone it should be about 1.something gms per litre and this will be 23 litres in the fermenter.
Thanks.
Edit: argh, Beersmith was being weird and clicky and things have changed, apparently it slipped up to 25L without me noticing.
At 23L
O.G - 1.049
F.G - 1.012
IBU - 23.4
ABV - 5.0%
And I've always liked Star Fox - the main character of which is called Fox McCloud. We recently did a brew of some red ale that was amazing, so I wanted to combine all these things.
The goal is to use all the puns and links together and hopefully get a decent tasting beer at the end. So I've absolutely no idea how the taste of these things will match, just hoping I get lucky. Not to mention it being simple as it's the first thing I'll be splashing together.
Galaxy Hops - Obviously the link to galaxy and stars there
Fox McCloud - Linking to Nimbus Brewery
Red ale - foxes are red (well orange, but I wanted a nice red ale so I'm going with that).
We downloaded the Beersmith 2 trial version and started adding things and playing with the colour. I think I've got everything I need - but I'm a not sure about the spec grains and what I can use. I think I've got way too much, but the picture has the colour I'm after. Before I started adding ingredients, I was hoping to hit around 20 IBU with an ABV around 5-5.5% or so.
With that in mind I started plugging stuff into Beersmith.
1 kg Crystal 40L Steeped
1 kg Dark Dry Extract
2 kg Light Dry Exract
Galaxy Hops
- 15g Boil for 40mins
- 15g Boil for 20mins
- 30g dry hopped at day 4 of ferment
So I plugged that in, adjusting values till I got the beer colour I wanted. It actually worked out to be fairly close to my IBU and ABV.
Beersmith is telling me that it should be 21.6 IBU and 5.3% ABV with a 1.053 OG and 1.012 FG.
The arrows are sitting all in the middle of the green so it should be right for an Irish Ale.
So to get to the point (finally), what I'm wondering is whether I should make any changes? Use different steep, mix in more types of grains? Do I need to add dextrose, or is that just if I want a higher ABV at the end? I've also gone with 30g dry hop as I read someone it should be about 1.something gms per litre and this will be 23 litres in the fermenter.
Thanks.
Edit: argh, Beersmith was being weird and clicky and things have changed, apparently it slipped up to 25L without me noticing.
At 23L
O.G - 1.049
F.G - 1.012
IBU - 23.4
ABV - 5.0%