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Adamski29 said:
Recipe: Challenging Mild
Brewer: Adam
Style: Mild

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 56.92 l
Post Boil Volume: 49.92 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 46.00 l
Bottling Volume: 45.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.037 SG
Estimated Color: 20.1 SRM
Estimated IBU: 18.7 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 80.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 83.5 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
5.60 kg Golden Promise (Simpsons) (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 80.1 %
0.43 kg Caramel Malt - 60L (Briess) (60.0 SRM) Grain 2 6.1 %
0.32 kg Crystal, Dark (Joe White) (110.0 SRM) Grain 3 4.6 %
0.30 kg Biscuit (Dingemans) (22.5 SRM) Grain 4 4.3 %
0.23 kg Chocolate Malt (Thomas Fawcett) (508.0 S Grain 5 3.3 %
0.11 kg Black Malt (Simpsons) (550.0 SRM) Grain 6 1.6 %
30.00 g Challenger [9.10 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 7 18.7 IBUs
1.0 pkg West Yorkshire Ale (Wyeast #1469) Yeast 8 -


Mash Schedule: Temperature Mash, 2 Step, Full Body
Total Grain Weight: 6.99 kg
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Saccharification Add 21.00 l of water at 73.8 C 68.0 C 90 min
Mash Out Heat to 78.0 C over 6 min 78.0 C 10 min

Sparge: Fly sparge with 42.91 l water at 75.6 C

Into the main rest now, full recirc. Smells amazing. Second time brewing this beer, was a complete hit last time.
Looks nice Adam. Just curious about the 90 min mash (for this beer I mean).
I mash my mild with a fairly similar grist at 69 for 30 mins. Such an easy brewday and been loving the results.
 
Yeah I didn't mash for that long, ended up with greater than expected efficiency knocking out 46L of 1.040 wort so I'll be adding a little bit of water to each cube when I ferment to knock it back down around 1.036-37. Loved this beer last time I made it, used MO and didn't have the biscuit in it though so it'll be slightly different. I have this and a 7% Rye IPA for my engagement party. Needed a drivers beer!
 
Havn't brewed for a long time. The rig is set up and the HLT is heating. Putting this one down tonight.

Blackdog
American Pale Ale
Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 66.0
Total Grain (kg): 12.650
Total Hops (g): 190.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.051 (°P): 12.6
Final Gravity (FG): 1.013 (°P): 3.3
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 5.01 %
Colour (SRM): 9.0 (EBC): 17.8
Bitterness (IBU): 41.8 (Average - No Chill Adjusted)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 85
Boil Time (Minutes): 90
Grain Bill
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10.000 kg Golden Promise Malt (79.05%)
1.000 kg Pale Malt (7.91%)
1.000 kg Wheat Malt (7.91%)
0.500 kg Crystal 90 (3.95%)
0.150 kg Chocolate, Pale (1.19%)
Hop Bill
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45.0 g Columbus Pellet (14.2% Alpha) @ 30 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)
100.0 g Cascade Pellet (7.8% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil) (1.5 g/L)
45.0 g Wai-iti Pellet (3.9% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)
Misc Bill
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Single step Infusion at 65°C for 90 Minutes.
Fermented at 18°C with
Notes
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1 cube to be dry hopped with 45g Wai-iti, fermented with us05
1 cube dry hopped with 30g cascade k97 west coast
1 cube dry hopped with 30g EKG or styrian goldiings fermented with 1469
Recipe Generated with BrewMate
 
Ross's Nelson Sauvin Summer Ale

OG Target - 1.053
FG Target - 1.010
Abv - 5.7%
IBU - 36
Color - 10

Malts

Maris Otter (UK) 4.6kg - 91.3%
Torrified Wheat (UK) 0.5kg - 8.7%

Hops

Bittering - 60 mins - 17g Nelson Sauvin (11.3%AA)

Flavor - 20 mins - 17g Nelson Sauvin (11.3%AA)

Aroma - 5 mins - 25g Nelson Sauvin (11.3%AA)

Steeped after boil at 85c - 25g Nelson Sauvin (11.3%AA) for 20 mins

Then chill to pitching temp.

Yeast

1.2ltr starter on stirplate for 2 days at 18c - Wyeast 1272 American Ale II

Ferment @ 20c for 5 days in Primary

Rack to secondary @ 20c for 7 days

3 days at 0c then keg/bottle

:chug:
 
today


Code:
BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: 63 ltr 0 min AIPA NC
Brewer: Matt
Asst Brewer: 
Style: American IPA
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (35.0) 

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 67.41 l
Post Boil Volume: 65.52 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 63.00 l   
Bottling Volume: 63.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.066 SG
Estimated Color: 18.9 EBC
Estimated IBU: 0.0 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 80.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 80.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt                   Name                                     Type          #        %/IBU         
15.00 g               Calcium Chloride (Mash 60.0 mins)        Water Agent   1        -             
12.00 kg              Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) ( Grain         2        72.7 %        
2.00 kg               Munich I (Weyermann) (14.0 EBC)          Grain         3        12.1 %        
2.00 kg               Wheat Malt, Malt Craft (Joe White) (3.5  Grain         4        12.1 %        
0.50 kg               Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (236.4 EBC)   Grain         5        3.0 %         
1.50 Items            Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins)        Fining        6        -             
200.00 g              Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min          Hop           7        0.0 IBUs      
200.00 g              Chinook [11.00 %] - Boil 0.0 min         Hop           8        0.0 IBUs      
100.00 g              Centennial [6.00 %] - Boil 0.0 min       Hop           9        0.0 IBUs      
3.0 pkg               American Ale II (Wyeast Labs #1272) [125 Yeast         10       -             
60.00 g               Cascade [5.50 %] - Dry Hop 3.0 Days      Hop           11       0.0 IBUs      
60.00 g               Centennial [10.00 %] - Dry Hop 3.0 Days  Hop           12       0.0 IBUs      


Mash Schedule: 4 Step
Total Grain Weight: 16.50 kg
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Name              Description                             Step Temperat Step Time     
Protein Rest      Add 50.50 l of water and heat to 52.0 C 52.0 C        5 min         
Maltose           Add 0.01 l of water and heat to 62.0 C  62.0 C        40 min        
Dextrinization    Heat to 68.0 C over 7 min               68.0 C        15 min        
Mash Out          Heat to 74.0 C over 9 min               74.0 C        15 min        

Sparge: Batch sparge with 2 steps (Drain mash tun, , 34.43l) of 75.6 C water
Notes:
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it's ibu's calculated for 10 minute chill
so it should be a 10 min APIA 51 ibu, 1.066

Created with BeerSmith 2 - http://www.beersmith.com
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Simple Stella clone
38L batch

92% Boh pils
5% Carapils
3% Acid

step mash 55C 10 mins, 63C 40 mins, 72C 20 mins, 78C mashout 10 mins

Magnum to 25IBU
60g Saaz aroma hops at flameout
No chill

34/70 yeasties, pitch at 9C and ramp 1C to 12C. D-rest at 17C for 3 days.
 
Stuwort said:
Brewing a K+B Coopers APA with a few changes to use up leftovers

1 x Coopers APA tin
1.1kg Coopers LDME
200g Dex
100g Maltodextrin
15g Saaz @ 60min
Dry hopped 25g of Saaz @ 5 days at 18c
Added one pack of old Coopers yeast 1 min before flame out, made up a starter for another and sprinkled a third over the top (experimenting).
Extra 5 days in FV
Dropped to 1c for 7 days

Will bottle this the day after Boxing Day. It is tasting quite good. I was a little apprehensive about using the Saaz and the prospect of it developing a grassy taste, but so far so good. It seems like it will be a very easy to drink beer.

Cheers

Stu
Cracked a few of these yesterday with a mate and found them to be bloody marvellous. Will definitely be making this again. The cc'ing has dropped the hops out, but hasn't moved much of the yeast haze as the beer is very cloudy but not thick.
 
First AG today. Woot! Woot! Hit all my targets except ended up with slightly higher efficiency. I had left at 70% as per the Brewmate defaults but ended up with 75% into the cube. Very happy with the day. Thanks Crusty for the recipe :D


Crusty's APA (American Pale Ale)

Original Gravity (OG): 1.047 (°P): 11.7
Final Gravity (FG): 1.012 (°P): 3.1
Alcohol (ABV): 4.62 %
Colour (SRM): 6.7 (EBC): 13.2
Bitterness (IBU): 31.8 (Average - No Chill Adjusted)

60.22% Pilsner
17.2% Munich I
17.2% Wheat Malt
5.38% Caramunich I

0.7 g/L Amarillo (8.6% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
0.4 g/L Amarillo (8.6% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil)
0.4 g/L Amarillo (8.6% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil)
0.4 g/L Amarillo (8.6% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil)

0.5 g/L Whirlfloc Tablet @ 10 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 66°C for 90 Minutes. Boil for 60 Minutes

Fermented at 18°C with Safale US-05


Recipe Generated with BrewMate
 
Going to brew this tomorrow. I'm going through the age old argument in my head of 3068 V 3638. 3638 is winning at the moment but that could change................. I'm using Waimea because its high Alpha and I'm going through a love affair with this hop at them moment.

De Gautet's Wheat

Original Gravity (OG): 1.045 (°P): 11.2
Final Gravity (FG): 1.011 (°P): 2.8
Alcohol (ABV): 4.42 %
Colour (SRM): 5.7 (EBC): 11.2
Bitterness (IBU): 19.1 (Average)

50% Wheat Malt
25% Ale Malt
25% Munich I

0.5 g/L Waimea (14.9% Alpha) @ 50 Minutes (Boil)

0.2 g/L Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) @ 0 Minutes (Mash)
0.2 g/L Yeast Nutrient @ 15 Minutes (Boil)
0.2 g/L Brewbrite @ 10 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 64°C for 90 Minutes. Boil for 60 Minutes
Fermented at 18°C with Wyeast 3638 - Bavarian Wheat

Recipe Generated with BrewMate
 
Bohemian Pilsner (mid)

I'm still figuring my processes out as much as my recipes. The process involves:
a 50 litre fishing esky mash tun, a 50 litre 2.8kW keggle, 3*20 litre buckets, a 2 tier stand, 1 little brown pump and a double coil copper immersion chiller.
adding hot/cold water to heat/cool the mash. Diluting the wort.
checking the temperature with a candy thermometer, sometimes while standing on a milk crate to reach into a hot keggle

Recipe:

10kg Best Malz Heidelberg Malt
Mash: 25min 50o ; 30min 68o ; 5min 76o
Hot Water: ~14 litres 56o; ~8 litres boiling; ~10 litres boiling

Fly sparge with 50 litres ~76-78o to collect ~60 litres. Sparge at 1 litre a minute (100ml every 6 seconds), and recirculate until clear before taking any wort.
*Mine cleared after about 10 litres.

Keep the last 19 litres separate and put 41 litres of the sweetest wort on to boil for 90 minutes

60min 70g Saaz (3.6% AAU)
30min 130g Saaz
15min 65g Saaz
0min 65g Saaz

Dilute out to 50 litres with tap water, chill to tap water temperature with a recirculating immersion chiller, then split into 3 fermenters, and add few more litres of tap water so that each fermenter is at least 2/3 full.
*My final volume would've been 50-55 litres and it's delicious already.

Chill to 9o in the fridge for ~6 hours or overnight. Keep the starter with the wort. Raise to 11o when pitching.

White Labs Pilsner Yeast WLP800
Make a starter by dissolving 500g of Coopers Light Dry Malt Extract in 5 litres of water and boiling the wort for 10 minutes.
Pitch when the temperature is right.
Let a decent yeast cake form and take most of the spent wort off the top, leaving enough to get the yeast out.
Chill the starter to get a better yeast cake.
Divide the yeast slurry into four and pitch 1 quarter into each fermenter, reserving the last quarter for that other 20 litres of 'small beer' that you should make up very soon.
*The starter took me about 6 days. 2.5 days before any yeast activity, 1.5 days growing and 2 days chilling. The yeast was old and I may have pitched it too hot.

Leave it alone for a couple of weeks at least. :)
 
Trying my take on a Zoiglbier, for a historic thing I have happening at Easter


Zoigl_1.jpg


Found a recipe in the Weyermann Bier Almanac, and have tweaked it to match my ingredients

58% Munich I
40% Floor Malted Bo Pils
2% Carafa II Special (to SRM 12.7)

Bittering @60 with Hallertau to 22 IBU
0.2g/L Aroma with Hallertau @Whirlpool to

OG 1.055

Mash: 50C for 30, 15 min ramp to 64C hold 15, 10 min ramp 69 hold 15 and ramp to mashout at 79

Will be doing it up with a WYeast 2352 Munich Lager II

Hoping for a sortof amber dunkel. A novel thing with the style is its not lagered for any length of time, served cloudy, which works with my timelines ;)

Currently about to sparge, and its smelling and looking lurvely :)
 
BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: PVW Imperial IPA
Brewer: Adam
Style: Imperial IPA

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 36.50 l
Post Boil Volume: 26.00 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l
Bottling Volume: 22.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.081 SG
Estimated Color: 5.4 SRM
Estimated IBU: 128.9 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 80.00 %
Boil Time: 80 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
5.00 kg Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 66.7 %
1.50 kg Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 2 20.0 %
0.50 kg Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 3 6.7 %
60.00 g Summit [17.00 %] - Mash 120.0 min Hop 4 26.1 IBUs
0.50 kg Rice Extract Syrup (7.0 SRM) Extract 5 6.7 %
30.00 g Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Boil 40. Hop 6 40.9 IBUs
20.00 g Summit [17.00 %] - Boil 40.0 min Hop 7 33.1 IBUs
40.00 g Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Boil 5.0 Hop 8 11.9 IBUs
40.00 g Falconer's Flight [11.40 %] - Boil 5.0 m Hop 9 9.7 IBUs
20.00 g Summit [17.00 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 10 7.3 IBUs
2.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) Yeast 11 -
30.00 g Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Dry Hop Hop 12 0.0 IBUs
30.00 g Falconer's Flight [11.40 %] - Dry Hop 5. Hop 13 0.0 IBUs
20.00 g Summit [17.00 %] - Dry Hop 3.0 Days Hop 14 0.0 IBUs


Just knocked this out. Marathon brew day. Every time I use rye or wheat, even in small proportions I get massive issues with grain bed compaction. After about 5 hours mashing and an 80 minute boil it's finally over. Should be mental.
 
My first brew was a ginger beer made from:
Coopers GB kit
365g brown sugar
640g raw sugar
130g honey
100g thinly sliced ginger
1/2 tea spoon chilli powder (medium)
juice of one lemon
3 litres water for boil
Coopers yeast

Boil water
add ginger and sugar, boil for 15 min
add honey, lemon and chilli and boil for 10 min
take off boil, add can of goo and put in fermenter and make up to 18L
I didn't strain this, it all went into the fermenter at 22c for four weeks. These sugars will take a while to ferment.

Don't be put off when tasting at bottling, it will take at least six weeks to come good. Mine has been in the bottle for 8 weeks, but is now magnificent. I actually poured five out after two weeks as I thought it was not going to be any good and then changed my mind and gaave it a chance to mature. How I bloody wish I could have them back.
 
im going to try something simple

1.7kg tin of Coopers Euro Larger

250g of steeped meduim crystal malt

1kg of DME

20G cascade @ 30

30g cascade @ 20

30g Cascade @ 10

Ferment @ 18-20 degrees with Us- 05 and pray to the beer gods for A liquid of enlightment after 10-12 days
 
After being gifted with 1/2 a pound of summit, I was going to brew this with a summit based hopping schedule yet I chickened out after reading some reviews of garlic and onion beer.

West Coast Red Ale Feb 2013
American Amber Ale
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Batch Size (L): 23.0
Total Grain (kg): 5.580
Total Hops (g): 115.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.061 (°P): 15.0
Final Gravity (FG): 1.013 (°P): 3.3
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 6.23 %
Colour (SRM): 14.8 (EBC): 29.2
Bitterness (IBU): 51.5 (Average - No Chill Adjusted)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 80
Boil Time (Minutes): 90

Grain Bill
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4.800 kg Maris Otter Malt (86.02%)
0.280 kg Crystal 120 (5.02%)
0.250 kg Caraamber (4.48%)
0.200 kg Acidulated Malt (3.58%)
0.050 kg Carafa I malt (0.9%)

Hop Bill
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30.0 g Cascade Pellet (5.6% Alpha) @ 40 Minutes (Boil) (1.3 g/L)
30.0 g Cascade Pellet (5.6% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (1.3 g/L)
10.0 g Apollo Pellet (15% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil) (0.4 g/L)
25.0 g Apollo Pellet (15% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (1.1 g/L)
20.0 g Galaxy Pellet (12.2% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (0.9 g/L)

Misc Bill
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Single step Infusion at 67°C for 90 Minutes.
Fermented at 18°C with Wyeast 1272 - American Ale II
 
Extract hefe fermenting this week:

Batch size: 17 litres

2.3 kg CBW Bavarian Wheat LME
Steeped 300gm light crystal 60 (Carahell)
100gm dextrose (to dry it out a bit)
20 grams of Hallertauer Mitt @ 60 minutes
WB-06 yeast fermented @ 23.5 degrees (aiming for more banana esters via this temp)

4.8% abv (after bottle conditioning), 13 IBU, 14 EBC

4.5 days in the fermenter and it's down from 1047 to 1010 already, so it's gonna be higher than my expected 4.8%
 
No more procrastinating, mashing in this years Biere de Noel, hopefully it'll be as good as the last one.
(I'll reserve a bottle for Batz and Rowy if it is - don't open until Xmas!)
 
Bought a 60L FV from neighbour which has solved my fermenting fridge bottleneck. I have 16 rellies descending for Easter so I'm running up a couple of kegs of Rellie's Delight International Lager

42L batch to fill 2 kegs.

3kg Pale Lager Malt (last of the Oakey Maltings stuff)
1kg wheat malt

60mins at around 65

30g Mt Hood 60 mins

2 tins Coopers Canadian Blonde
Kilo da sugaz

20g NZ Cascade hop tea into FV

Wyeast Danish 2042
10 days starting at 13 then rising to 18
10 days at minus one

5.2 % ABV, should be about 20 IBU

Keep em pissed.
 
Brewing Janet's Brown (from BCS) and a largish stout usuing a scaled up SN stout clone grainbill and EKG, chinook and centennial for the hops tomorrow.

Will be my first ever double brewday due to needing to punch a few beers out fairly quickly before semester starts. I hope it doesn't turn what is usually an enjoyable day in to work.
 
Must be something in the water (beer). Mrs was away so I punched back to back brews today as well. First one I ripped off NickJD (thanks mate). Tasted awesome into the cube. Next was a rough clone with some leftover hops I had. Ended up with slightly higher efficiency so will adjust Brewmate accordingly. 2nd and 3rd AG brews :D All up, pretty laid back day for 2 BIAB in an urn brews.


Amarillo Mid
American Pale Ale

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 23.0
Total Grain (kg): 3.939
Total Hops (g): 25.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.040 (°P): 10.0
Final Gravity (FG): 1.010 (°P): 2.6
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 3.93 %
Colour (SRM): 3.8 (EBC): 7.5
Bitterness (IBU): 22.0 (Average - No Chill Adjusted)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 76
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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3.880 kg Pilsner (98.5%)
0.059 kg Caramunich III (1.5%)

Hop Bill
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15.0 g Amarillo Pellet (8.6% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)
10.0 g Cascade Pellet (7.8% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil) (0.4 g/L)

Misc Bill
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0.5 g Whirlfloc Tablet @ 10 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 65°C for 90 Minutes.


Anchor Porter

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 23.0
Total Grain (kg): 5.489
Total Hops (g): 50.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.055 (°P): 13.6
Final Gravity (FG): 1.014 (°P): 3.6
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 5.40 %
Colour (SRM): 29.6 (EBC): 58.3
Bitterness (IBU): 36.8 (Average - No Chill Adjusted)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 77
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
----------------
4.574 kg Pale Malt (83.33%)
0.329 kg Chocolate (5.99%)
0.307 kg Crystal 60 (5.59%)
0.153 kg Carapils (Dextrine) (2.79%)
0.104 kg Black Malt (1.89%)
0.022 kg Roasted Barley (0.4%)

Hop Bill
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15.0 g Cascade Pellet (7.8% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)
20.0 g East Kent Golding Pellet (4.7% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (0.9 g/L)
15.0 g Cascade Pellet (7.8% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)

Misc Bill
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0.5 g Whirlfloc Tablet @ 10 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 66°C for 90 Minutes.
 
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