Recipe / ingredient juggling

[sentfromspain]

In the next few months I plan to brew a lager, hefeweisen, ale, and a stout. The stores that can provide me with malts, hops, and yeast however have a limited selection.

So here's the question: Do these proposed ingredients seem alright in terms of quantity and potential taste?


The stout:

12 lbs pale ale malt extract
1 lb crystal
7 oz munich
14 oz chocolate
8 oz roasted barley
8 oz glucose dextrin

2 oz cascade hops
1 oz magnum hops
1 oz centennial hops

Yeast - safbrew US-05


The ale:

8 lbs Pale malt extract
12 oz crystal malt
8 oz chocolate malt
2 oz glucose dextrin

4 oz cascade hops
1 oz Northern Brewer hops
1 tsp irish moss

Yeast - safbrew T-58


The lager:

5 lbs Pilsner malt 2 row
5 lb Vienna malt
5 oz crystal
2 oz munich malt

3 oz saaz hops
2 oz hallertau hasbrucker hops

Yeast - Saflager S-23


The hefeweisen:
*I wanted to use a Light DME instead of the pilsner but none to be had.

5.5 lbs wheat malt
5.5 lbs Pilsner

.75 oz hallertau hasbrucker hops

Yeast - Weiss 1433 Mauribrew



If you have any changes / suggestions, I would be most obliged.

Cheers

 

[PurpleJeepXJ]

Are these PM 5gal batches? Times with the hops are needed to figure out anything style wise. I would suggest getting BeerSmith if you want to start creating recipes. Beer Calculus by hopville is an ok free calculator if you want to start there.

 

[unionrdr]

What lovibond crystal in the Ale? 8oz of Chocolate malt? That'd be a lil dark to me.? Even 2or 3 ounces of 90L would make a pale ale look like a Salvator doppel bock. What style are you shooting for?

 

[sentfromspain]

These are 5 gallon batches yeah.

The crystal would be Brupaks 120 EBC (that's all the info they can give me). I want the ale to be dark (hence the chocolate), so it resembles something along the lines of an American brown ale or dark seasonal ale, though it might be better to just put in 5 oz.

As for the hops times...

Stout:
2 oz cascade hops boiled the last 5 minutes
1 oz magnum hops boiled for 60 minutes
1 oz centennial hops boiled for 60 minutes

Ale:
3 oz cascade 60 minutes
1 oz cascade last 5 minutes
.5 oz northern brewer 60 minutes
.5 oz northern brewer last 15 minutes

Lager:
1 oz hallertau 30 minutes
1 oz hallertau 10 minutes
3 oz saaz 60 minutes

Hefe:
.75 oz hallertau 60 minutes

 

[sentfromspain]

Ok, I did as suggested and tried out Beer Smith and Beer Calculus. Both tools gave me about the same results, and it seems as I was putting too much hops in a couple of the beers. But not too many changes otherwise.

Thanks for the help!