Recipe help

[neohistory]

So after the reading I've done, and lurking on the forums reading various posts by the more seasoned brewers, I wrote up a recipe for my first batch, is this correct?

This is basically what I want. I want a semi amber (might be darker due to using the crystal 40L. Perhaps I should start with the lighter LME like Pilsner (read this a basic starter?) so from there we have this:

I decided to do 1 gallon batches starting out as this is all I'm willing to get into at first.

Coopers/Muntons amber liquid malt extract
Hops will include a 60 min of Northern brewer then a 5 or 8 of Chinook. On my LHBS site the AA% listed for Northern brewer is 7-10 and chinook is 12-14 and these are in pellet form.
For specialty grains I want to use Crystal 40L for about a 30 min steep before the 60 min boil of the LME. Not sure the color gained from this but this is totally a shot in the dark for my first brew.

So I'm not selecting any "official beer type" and I'm just throwing ingredients together to see what I get I suppose. So what yeast would I select for this? Am I even doing this right? I want a malty, amber colored beer with non-fruity tastes, low attenuation, am I even on the right track????

 

[temptnmonkey]

don't know any off hand, but if you browse through the Wyeast website it has pretty detailed descriptions of the yeasts.

The Crystal will give it a good amber color, and using LME will also give it a darker than normal color than would otherwise be there for all grain (or so i've been told).

 

[insubordinateK]

Just my humble opinion...

If you know you want a "malty, amber colored beer with non-fruity tastes" etc, then I would purchase a beer kit and keep reading. The kit will guide you closer to what you want as long as you pay attention to fermentation temps.

when you feel you can form your own recipe, then jump to (invest in) all-grain

 

[HomebrewMTB]

First, get some software. Some are free, some are not. For most extract brews, you probably don't need a lot of advanced features so free would probably work fine.

Next, I would stick with light malt extract and use specialty grains for the color and malt flavor. It's easier to control and you know what you're getting every time.

Other than that, I would just get the software and play around until you get what you want.