Prima facie, the recipe looks okay but there's a few problems...
Firstly, Old G, change your topic title. (Yes, I am picking on you today
). Edit your first post and change the subject title to something like "Heretic Evil Twin Clone Recipe". (I'm not picking on you too hard, otherwise I'd tell you to post it in the Recipes forum as well
.
That being said, do take a bit of time to read
this and become familiar with any 'stickied' topic in
this section. That latter section has a wealth of information you won't find anywhere else.
This post is one example and relates to your question.
Read/study the above links. They will save you a heap of time and give you a heap of knowledge. In fact...
....
That last link will show you just a few of the pitfalls of trying to copy recipes you find online. While the above pics of the recipe might look nice, there is critical info missing. Studying that link will help you to find some of them.
There are a few other problems. For example, that recipe is published as a BIAB recipe but it isn't written as one. The 'Mash Guidelines' make no sense and it has a sparge in it. In BIAB, you don't need to sparge if your kettle can handle all the water to begin with. With a 70 L kettle, doing a single 'batch' (let's call that 23 L into fermentor, 6 gals if my memory serves me correctly), you don't even need to know what the word 'sparge' means.
And, to get really picky, I don't like the dry hopping schedule. Why dry hop some hops for 7 days whereas others are 4 days? There is no logic to that unless the guy has transferred to a secondary and the 4 day hops are in secondary. (I won't go into the logic of that here.)
Finally, I'm not sure what liquid yeast versus dry yeast prices are like in the US, but I go for dry yeast any time I can. It is not an inferior product. I would think that US-05 might be as feasible an option?
I just brewed an IPA today that has $35 (ozzie dollars) worth of hops in it. I'm about to pitch US-05 on it. In other words, I don't mind spending money on a brew but I also will look for sensible alternatives.
So, a bit of study for you
. And, don't go for online recipes unless you find them here and one of us "older guys" has checked them out. Buy the two recipe books at the bottom of the page (at time of writing). These are recipes we know we can copy with a good degree of accuracy and have been written by very experienced brewers.
Don't waste your time online!
PP
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