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Post #1 made 15 years ago
by housecat
Hi,

What do you all think of this?

I just played around a bit with Dr Smurto's Golden Ale recipe.

What would you do to improve it? would you change the yeast?

HC's Gold Ale (Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale))

Original Gravity (OG): 1.051 (°P): 12.6
Final Gravity (FG): 1.010 (°P): 2.6
Colour (SRM): 6.0 (EBC): 11.9
Bitterness (IBU): 45.9 (Average)

55.01% Pilsner
20.93% Munich I
18.34% Wheat Malt
5.73% Caramalt

1 g/L Chinook (11.4% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
0.2 g/L Galaxy (13.4% Alpha) @ 40 Minutes (Boil)
0.8 g/L Cascade (7.8% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil)
0.8 g/L Cascade (7.8% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil)
0.4 g/L Galaxy (13.4% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil)

0.0 g/L Whirlfloc Tablet @ 5 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 66°C for 60 Minutes. Boil for 90 Minutes

Fermented at 18°C with Safale US-05


Recipe Generated with BrewMate

Thanks all

HC
Last edited by housecat on 12 Apr 2011, 05:36, edited 5 times in total.
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Post #2 made 15 years ago
by hashie
Your recipe looks good HC.

My personal preference would be to dump the us-05 and replace it with an English Ale yeast like Nottingham or even s04, but that is just to suit my tastes.

I'd also drop the mash temp back to 64°C for a drier finished beer.
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Post #3 made 15 years ago
by housecat
Thanks Hashie.

What differences could I expect with those yeasts, I don't really have much experience with yeasts as of yet.
*also, is there a list of the flavour profiles the different yeasts will give?

Cheers

HC

edit: extra questions!
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Post #4 made 15 years ago
by hashie
I find US-05 gives a very clean beer, that lacks body (watery). Where Nottingham gives a rich full bodied (chewy) ale. Nottingham can also be fermented cool, around 12-14°C making it vey good for cream ales and faux lagers.

US-05 might be a good yeast to start as it will not really give any flavours of itself, it's very neutral. But depending on what style of beer you like, there are much better yeasts available.

I'm sure there are yeast flavour profiles out there, but I don't have time this morning to find them. If I get time tonight I'll see what I can find :)
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Post #5 made 15 years ago
by wizard78
This link may help a bit. I haven't had a chance to have a good look at it, so I can't say how good it is.
Good luck with your brew.
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