No batch size on recipes, what to do?

[LasseJuul]

Hey guys,
I just bought the ebook "Brew Your Own Beer - 640 Thirst Quenching Beer Recipes" and i can't seem to find any batch sizes at all. I looked at the amount of malt used, hoping they might all be 5 gallon recipes, but the pounds of malt used varies from under 5 to more than 20 per batch of All-grain.
I understand that I can calculate the water used for mashing, but I usually top off with water after boiling, but I have no final volume in these recipes..

Am I mistaken, or is this a little strange?

this is an example from the ebook.

Batch #62 Brain Wipe

Category Belgian Ale
Recipe Type All Grain

Fermentables
10 lbs Dewolf and Cosyn pilsner malt
1 lb. Briess 2-row malt
1.5 lbs. Corn sugar
2 lbs Laglaander Extra pale dry malt extract

Other
1.5 oz. Tettenager (4.4%) 60 min.
0.5 oz. Tettenager (4.4%) 5 min.

Yeast Wyeast White beer yeast
Procedure Mashed malts with step infusion mash, 30 min. 122 F., 75 min. 150 F., 10 min. 168 F. Boil thirty minutes. Add corn sugar, malt extract, 1st hop addition. Boil 55 minutes. Add 2nd hop addition. Cool and pitch yeast (2 liter starter). Ferment 65-70 until completion

 

[sandyeggoxj]

That looks like a 5-gallon batch to me. Does it have an OG, FG and ABV? That would confirm it.

In general 5-gallons, or 20-liters is the standard for homebrew recipes.

 

[iaefebs]

I looked through the book and recipes, sorry to tell you but that book is a waste of money. Try doing preboil batches of 6 gallons. End up with 5 gallons of hootch. A 20 pound grain bill is just a 5 gallon enormous high alcohol batch. I'd suggest a better recipe book.

 

[LasseJuul]

Yeah, i got that feeling, right when I opened it. The "640 recipes" was sort of a package deal along with an actually pretty good home brewing book, and I got it cheap. So i'm not worried about having wasted my money, but it's good to know that I'm not the only one who didn't care for the recipes. I just wanted to know if it was worth spending time looking through it.. Apparently not.

Thanks for the answers guys. It is my first day and first post here on HomeBrewTalk.com and I'm glad I found the site!

 

[DogStar]

Brain wipe. Ha! More like arse wipe. You can't even do that with an ebook.