Hey all
Longtime lurker and user of recipes on the site, but just joined up now. Been extract brewing for a few years and all grain for about 6 months now.
Wanted to make a summer-y session beer for my wife and I to enjoy in the 100 degree heat in Santa Clarita this summer. I want it to be about 4.5% and kind of be a cross between Brooklyn Summer Ale (biscuit-y and crisp) and Weinhenstephaner Original Premium, clean and slightly malty with german hops.
I like doing a single hop a lot and wanted to try an ale with just hallertau mittelfrüh hops. I also like to keep the grain bill as simple as possible so I can keep the background noise down and really taste what I'm putting in.
I have never come up with a recipe from scratch so tell me if this seems like it would be just terribly undrinkable:
7.5 lbs 2-row
1 lb biscuit (I have never used this grain before, I heard you shouldn't do more than 10% of the grain bill as biscuit but I kinda want to put a lot in so I can really taste it and reduce in the next batch if necessary.)
1 oz hallertau mittelfrüh 60 min
1 oz hallertau mittelfrüh 30 min
1 oz hallertau mittelfrüh 15 min
1 oz hallertau mittelfrüh 5 min
Safale american ale yeast, ferment at 68 for 2 weeks
According to the brewer's friend calculator, that would be
1.043 OG
1.008 FG
4.53%
35 IBU
Too much hallertau hops? Too much biscuit malt?
Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance!
Longtime lurker and user of recipes on the site, but just joined up now. Been extract brewing for a few years and all grain for about 6 months now.
Wanted to make a summer-y session beer for my wife and I to enjoy in the 100 degree heat in Santa Clarita this summer. I want it to be about 4.5% and kind of be a cross between Brooklyn Summer Ale (biscuit-y and crisp) and Weinhenstephaner Original Premium, clean and slightly malty with german hops.
I like doing a single hop a lot and wanted to try an ale with just hallertau mittelfrüh hops. I also like to keep the grain bill as simple as possible so I can keep the background noise down and really taste what I'm putting in.
I have never come up with a recipe from scratch so tell me if this seems like it would be just terribly undrinkable:
7.5 lbs 2-row
1 lb biscuit (I have never used this grain before, I heard you shouldn't do more than 10% of the grain bill as biscuit but I kinda want to put a lot in so I can really taste it and reduce in the next batch if necessary.)
1 oz hallertau mittelfrüh 60 min
1 oz hallertau mittelfrüh 30 min
1 oz hallertau mittelfrüh 15 min
1 oz hallertau mittelfrüh 5 min
Safale american ale yeast, ferment at 68 for 2 weeks
According to the brewer's friend calculator, that would be
1.043 OG
1.008 FG
4.53%
35 IBU
Too much hallertau hops? Too much biscuit malt?
Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance!