Hello, all! I've been doing extract brews for the last couple of months (only 3), and I'm going to be building a mash-tun this weekend, as well as purchasing a larger pot to boil whole 5 gallon batches in. I'll then make my own immersion cooling coil within the next couple of weeks and hopefully do my first AG at the end of the month.
I made a recipe about a week ago, before I was planing on moving on up to AG, for my gf's birthday. She, like me, LOVES really bitter beers. My personal favorite beer is Stone Ruination IPA (7.7%, 100+ IBU) and she's equally obsessed with it. Like me as well, she's really into homebrew, but doesn't understand it as much as I do... yet. LOL, I'm teaching her as I learn.
Anyway, I originally wrote this recipe as an extract. Over the last 2 days, I got BeerAlchemy and have not been able to stop playing with it, lol. I converted her "Birthday Celebration Ale" into an AG recipe. Just seeing if I can get some feedback on it?
Birthday Celebration Ale:
Grains: 2-Row 8 lb 8 oz; Carapils 2 lb; Caramel 40L 2 lb; Caramel Munich 1 lb; US Chocolate Malt 0.5 oz
Hops: Chinook 1 oz (60 min); Chinook 1 oz (45 min); Chinook 1 oz (40 min); Centennial 1 oz (5 min); Simcoe 1 oz (DH)
Yeast: White Labs California Ale (WLP001)
Misc: Irish Moss (15 min)
BeerAlchemy shows OG at 1.073, FG at 1.016, ABV 7.6%, 111.8 IBU.
What do you think?
I made a recipe about a week ago, before I was planing on moving on up to AG, for my gf's birthday. She, like me, LOVES really bitter beers. My personal favorite beer is Stone Ruination IPA (7.7%, 100+ IBU) and she's equally obsessed with it. Like me as well, she's really into homebrew, but doesn't understand it as much as I do... yet. LOL, I'm teaching her as I learn.
Anyway, I originally wrote this recipe as an extract. Over the last 2 days, I got BeerAlchemy and have not been able to stop playing with it, lol. I converted her "Birthday Celebration Ale" into an AG recipe. Just seeing if I can get some feedback on it?
Birthday Celebration Ale:
Grains: 2-Row 8 lb 8 oz; Carapils 2 lb; Caramel 40L 2 lb; Caramel Munich 1 lb; US Chocolate Malt 0.5 oz
Hops: Chinook 1 oz (60 min); Chinook 1 oz (45 min); Chinook 1 oz (40 min); Centennial 1 oz (5 min); Simcoe 1 oz (DH)
Yeast: White Labs California Ale (WLP001)
Misc: Irish Moss (15 min)
BeerAlchemy shows OG at 1.073, FG at 1.016, ABV 7.6%, 111.8 IBU.
What do you think?