First Recipe

[jmwst1]

I am brewing my first beer from my own recipe, but I wanted to see if this looked good to you guys before I bought the ingredients. I know it is simple, but I am just not sure about the amounts of things. This is supposed to be a blonde ale.

6.00 lbs - Extra Light Dried Malt Extract (DME)
1.00 lbs - Crystal 10L
1 oz. - Willamette Pellet Hops
Wyeast American Ale 1056

Also, this came to around $37.00. Does that sounds right, or should I be looking elsewhere? (just much more expensive than the few kits I have used)

Thanks

 

[JacktheKnife]

jmwst1,

Howdy,
Is the Crystal 10 a 'steeping grain'
or is it to be boiled in the wort?


Knife

 

[WBC]

Lets see
6 lbs dme at 11.25 at 3 lbs = 22.50
1 LB c10 = 1.50
willamette hops 1 oz 2.00
Yeast = 5.75

$31.75 at morebeer plus tax

That's reasonable for DME

The recipe is OK too.

 

[jmwst1]

Knife,

It is to be used as a steeping grain.

WBC,
Thanks, I am going to try out morebeer

 

[histo320]

Not bad at all. I'd say under $40 is good!

 

[jmwst1]

I received the ingredients for this recipe, and I guess AHBS sent me an extra 2 pounds of DME accidentally. Well, I didn't look at my recipe again, and thought 8 was correct and added it all. Is this going to do anything bad to my beer?

 

[GreenwoodRover]

it will make the gravity a little higher and therefore the percieved bitterness a little lower.

 

[GreenwoodRover]

Assuming a partial boil and 4.5%AA on the hops added at 60min, the original recipe fit the 6B Blonde Ale category (although slightly light on the IBU)
from my beersmith calcs:
OG 1.053
FG 1.013
4.8 SRM
12 IBU (17 if full boil)

The new recipe with 8# DME looks like this
OG 1.071
FG 1.017
5.6 SRM
9.1 IBU (15 if full boil)

Regardless, it will be a good beer.

 

[jmwst1]

Thanks a lot for the help! I think I need to download the BeerSmith software.