Recipe Feedback Please

[adrian078]

Just wanting some feedback on this recipe please.

I'm going for something refreshing, easy drinking with nice balance of malt and bitterness. Something a little like an Oktoberfest but in an Ale.

I also want to keep the recipe simple. Do I need any crystal? Or is the vienna enough to impart the maltiness?

Any other tips?


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Type: Partial Mash
Batch Size: 26.00 L (6.9 gal)
Boil Time: 60 min
IBU: 29.6
Colour: 8.4 EBC
ABV: 4.9%

--Ingredients--
2200.00 g (4.4lbs) Vienna Malt (5.9 EBC) Grain 1 50.0 %
2200.00 g (4.4lbs) Light Dry Extract (8.0 EBC) Extract 2 50.0 %

60.00 g (2 ounces) Saaz [3.60 %] - Boil 60.0 min 20.6 IBUs
35.00 g (1.25 ounces) Saaz [3.60 %] - Boil 20.0 min 7.3 IBUs
25.00 g (0.9 Ounces) Saaz [3.60 %] - Boil 5.0 min 1.7 IBUs

Single Infusion Mash at 64.4 C (148F) 75 min

German Ale (Wyeast Labs #1007)

Ferment at 14c (57F)

 

[badlee]

I think you have what you are looking for there.
Maybe throw in a little sugar,for the sake of it?

 

[adrian078]

I think you have what you are looking for there.
Maybe throw in a little sugar,for the sake of it?

Great thanks for that. Why sugar? Just to dry it more?

 

[badlee]

You got it. That way you have both elements.