Make me a recipe please!

[beershere]

I went through my grain and hops today and I have a wide variety that I should get to using soon.

In writing up my current inventory I thought this would be a good spot to post what I have in hopes the community can create a awesome recipe from what I have on hand.

I can pick up any yeast needed, I am not looking to brew a lager yet this season though.

As many or few items as you think---

Thanks!!

Grain:

40 lb - 2-Row Pale
3.5 lb - White Wheat
1 lb Carafa III
12 oz - C20
11 oz - Chocolate
9 ox - Aromatic
8 oz - Caramunich
8 oz British Roasted Black Barley
7 oz - Gambrius Honey
6 oz - Carapils
8 oz - Special Roast
4 oz - C40
4 oz - Biscuit

Hops:

3 oz - Citra
2 oz - Tettnang
2 oz - Northern Brewer
2 oz - Motueka NZ
2 oz - Sorachi Ace
1 oz - Chinook
1 oz - Cascade
1 oz - Fuggles
1 oz - Styrian Goldings
1 oz - Columbus

 

[chickypad]

Looks like you could go in a lot of directions there - pale ale, IPA, black IPA, brown, stout/porter, blonde, california common... Question is what do you feel like brewing?

 

[beershere]

I am thinking a pale ale - any suggestions on a hop schedule?

 

[chickypad]

I might do something like this for an American pale. I like to mix my late additions but you could change that around and do fewer whole ounce additions if you prefer. This is for 75% efficiency 5 gal, so adjust up and down accordingly. Also you may need to adjust your bittering for the actual AA of your hops and your preference. In Beersmith I get 1.050, 44 IBU, color 7.9 SRM:

8 lbs 2 Row 86.5 %
8.0 oz Caramel Malt - 20L 5.4 %
8.0 oz Caramunich 5.4 %
4.0 oz Biscuit Malt 2.7 %

0.50 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.30 %] - Boil 60
0.50 oz Cascade [6.70 %] - Boil 10.0 min
0.50 oz Chinook [11.10 %] - Boil 10.0 min
0.50 oz Cascade [6.70 %] - Boil 0.0 min
0.50 oz Citra [13.40 %] - Boil 0.0 min
1.00 oz Citra [13.40 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days
0.50 oz Cascade [6.70 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days
0.50 oz Chinook [11.10 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days

Edit: oops, have you using 1.5 oz cascade there. So you'd need to sub something else in for one of those additions, or drop down on the dry hop.

 

[Curtis2010]

With 40lb of two row, lots of specialty grains and hops you could easily do two recipes. Maybe a Pale Ale as suggested and then something darker. With the Chocolate, Roast Barley, etc, you could do a Porter.

 

[cheezydemon3]

POOF!

You are a recipe.

NEXT

 

[beershere]

Thanks very much. I'll be brewing it tonight. What method do you use for dry hopping? Straight in the carboy- or any sort of bag? I've found those first couple beers out of the tend to be rather sedimenty for the 12 I bottle before kegging.