Jenno and Recharge: Sorry guys that no one has been able to get to you as yet. I'm still time-challenged but will see if I can give some answers to you both in this post. Firstly...
Jenno
Welcome to the forum . Helles will be a great beer for you in the Toowoomba summer. The recipe itself looks good. The only change you might make is to forget the biscuit malt and just go 2% melanoidin buit it is neither here nor there as I don't think 1% will really do much. It's not my area of expertise though so I could be wrong.
As for the file itself, you have done that really nicely .
We have one problem though and that is the amount of dilutions. The BIABacus PR1.3 has a warning that is not working. In most other versions it does work and in your case, it would say, at the bottom of Section W, Try to reduce dilution amounts above to improve integrity.
What you are doing here is really asking for too much from your kettle. The liquor to grain ratio in your mash is very thick and we aren't certain yet, at those levels, how well the mash even works. At the other end of the brew we have a very large dilution in the fermentor. If your water quality is top notch then it's probably okay. If it is not top notch, then you will certainly compromise the brew, especially a Helles which is one of the most delicate styles to brew. In between, when we add water during the boil, the existing hop formulas change the hop utilisation but in practice we think it probably shouldn't so you might end up with a more bitter beer than you intend.
I know it is annoying but it might be worth re-writing your recipe into a BIABacus PR1.3I. There should be one in the last few pages of this thread. That will at least give you the warnings.
Also if you do an advanced search of my posts for the terms "extreme brewing" and "sweet liquor shop posts", these might lead to some posts that explain the pros and cons of maxi-BIAB a little.
So, in summary, you could brew your beer as per the file but the high volume of dilutions during and post-boil make it highly likely that the integrity of the recipe will be compromised to a degree.
I'm pretty impressed with your file though. It tells me that you have a pretty good handle on things .
Recharge
I'm not really very skilled on the ingredient design side of things (I usually just copy other people's recipes ). I can usually spot problems with a recipe though and everything in yours looks fine to me as does your file .
There's a lot to be said for doing what you are doing. Formulating a recipe that uses up ingredients you have, I think, can result in a lot of education and confidence. Let us know how it goes Richard.
PP
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