Hi there,
I am trying to brew my first all grain batch and i would like to ask a few questions, I want to crate an IPA of sorts:
1.) I have been calculating the beer via brewtoad, and now tried beersmith
batch size will be 20 liters
for malt I am planning on using
pale ale malt 4,5 kg (9lb 14.733oz)
cara blonde 0,3 kg (10.582oz)
cara gold 0,3 kg (10.582oz)
biscuit 0,2kg (7.0548oz)
With this I am getting the OG 1.062 what bothers me is that i have tried using beersmith and i got 1.207 I think i pressed wrong button probably, however i just want to check it up with you guys. Will this be enough malt for a 20 l (1,5l more than 5 gal 5US gal 2.2675US pt ).
1.2)what do you think about the malt selection? i read somewhere it should be like 95-90% pale ale malt for an IPA and is usually accompanied by biscuit. should I cut out cara gold or blonde?
2.) It is my first All grain so I am having trouble understanding and preparing for the mashing process I am split between modifying a cooler and using a bag. I kinda noticed I will not be geeting everything out of grains because of efficiency. I would like to ask if you perhaps know what kind of efficiency should I be expecting in a bag or a in cooler the sparging method with manually pouring water.
3.) I was planning on crushing the grains with a modified pasta roller ( I grinded the rollers) I will probably operate it by hand.
or should I do it with a normal pin roller?
4.) due to effeciency I probably will not get 20 liters out of the malt or is average effeciency of mashing already accounted for in brewtoad?
I read something about fixing the og using malt extract, would it be fine if I add some dry extract prior to boil? and about boil does the boil start when I turn up the flame and start heating it or it has to be 60 minutes of bubling boil?
5.) and lastly the hops i am planing on using 23g (0.81130oz) of Magnum at 60 min 9 (0.31747oz) grams of cascade and 5 g(0.17637oz) of wakatu at 15 minuteas and 9 grams of cascade at 5min. then I am planning on dry hopping with 15 g wakatu in secondary. Is it too much? I get 43 IBU
wakatu hops are not in the database so I calculated with some more cascade wakatu have 7-10% Alpha acids.
Thank you.
I am trying to brew my first all grain batch and i would like to ask a few questions, I want to crate an IPA of sorts:
1.) I have been calculating the beer via brewtoad, and now tried beersmith
batch size will be 20 liters
for malt I am planning on using
pale ale malt 4,5 kg (9lb 14.733oz)
cara blonde 0,3 kg (10.582oz)
cara gold 0,3 kg (10.582oz)
biscuit 0,2kg (7.0548oz)
With this I am getting the OG 1.062 what bothers me is that i have tried using beersmith and i got 1.207 I think i pressed wrong button probably, however i just want to check it up with you guys. Will this be enough malt for a 20 l (1,5l more than 5 gal 5US gal 2.2675US pt ).
1.2)what do you think about the malt selection? i read somewhere it should be like 95-90% pale ale malt for an IPA and is usually accompanied by biscuit. should I cut out cara gold or blonde?
2.) It is my first All grain so I am having trouble understanding and preparing for the mashing process I am split between modifying a cooler and using a bag. I kinda noticed I will not be geeting everything out of grains because of efficiency. I would like to ask if you perhaps know what kind of efficiency should I be expecting in a bag or a in cooler the sparging method with manually pouring water.
3.) I was planning on crushing the grains with a modified pasta roller ( I grinded the rollers) I will probably operate it by hand.
or should I do it with a normal pin roller?
4.) due to effeciency I probably will not get 20 liters out of the malt or is average effeciency of mashing already accounted for in brewtoad?
I read something about fixing the og using malt extract, would it be fine if I add some dry extract prior to boil? and about boil does the boil start when I turn up the flame and start heating it or it has to be 60 minutes of bubling boil?
5.) and lastly the hops i am planing on using 23g (0.81130oz) of Magnum at 60 min 9 (0.31747oz) grams of cascade and 5 g(0.17637oz) of wakatu at 15 minuteas and 9 grams of cascade at 5min. then I am planning on dry hopping with 15 g wakatu in secondary. Is it too much? I get 43 IBU
wakatu hops are not in the database so I calculated with some more cascade wakatu have 7-10% Alpha acids.
Thank you.