How to read such recipes?

Suicid · Oct 24, 2014

Howduy

Can you please tell me how to read some recepies which come in form like for instance at Fermentis site:
http://www.fermentis.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/TT_Weizen_EN.pdf

Recipe refers to grain percentage, but how to understand how much overall grain mass should be for get a certain amount of wort volume (lets say 5-6 gal)?

Next about hops - those just listed in there but no any amount suggested?

And finally yasts - is the first figure there in "gramms per hectoliter"?

I'd very appreciate if you give a reading instructions in sort of "step-by-step" or link(s) where to read about such notation.

Thanks in advance!

QuercusMax · Oct 24, 2014

My advice would be if you're asking those questions, don't use such a vague recipe - go with a tried and true one, like one from Brewing Classic Styles, for example.

But since you're curious:

If you know the efficiency of your all-grain system, you would use those percentages plus your desired starting gravity to find out how much grain to use. For example, on my system if I'm going to make 6 gallons of 1.050 beer, I need around 11 pounds of grain, so I'd just take that 11lbs and multiply out those percentages.

For the hops, you'd pick an IBU number that you want - they say "low", which I'd take to mean around 15. Using brewing software you can pretty easily figure out a good amount out to use based on the AA% of the hops you're using. If it's around 5% AA, you'll probably want around an ounce of bittering hops.

That does appear to be grams/hectoliter. I'd just use a single packet for a 5-gallon batch.

dkevinb · Oct 24, 2014

What he said. The one oddity I noticed is that the grain bill adds up to 102%.

BigEd · Oct 24, 2014

Suicid said:
Howduy

Can you please tell me how to read some recepies which come in form like for instance at Fermentis site:
http://www.fermentis.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/TT_Weizen_EN.pdf

Recipe refers to grain percentage, but how to understand how much overall grain mass should be for get a certain amount of wort volume (lets say 5-6 gal)?

Next about hops - those just listed in there but no any amount suggested?

And finally yasts - is the first figure there in "gramms per hectoliter"?

I'd very appreciate if you give a reading instructions in sort of "step-by-step" or link(s) where to read about such notation.

Thanks in advance!

A recipe in percentages is actually the most accurate way to do it. That appears to be a professional not a homebrew recipe but all you have to do is translate those percentages into weights based on your mash efficiency to achieve the listed OG. If ;you can't do it manually then simply plug in the estimated amounts into some homebrewing software and adjust as necessary to your batch size.