Does this recipe sound right?
Posted: Monday Apr 04, 2011 6:21 pm
Some friends and I are going to try our first homebrew, and we wanted to know if this recipe sounded correct:
-Bring 7 liters of water to a boil in a stainless steel pot.
-add 1.5 kilograms of malt extract and 15 grams of hops at the start of the boil, and 15 grams of hops 15 minutes from the end of the boil with 150 grams brown sugar. Total boil time, 1 hour.
-cool the pot until it reaches room temperature, adding water to bring the mix up to 10 liters.
-move the contents of the pot to a fermenting container adding 11.5 grams of diluted safale s-04 yeast.
-let sit for 2 weeks. Keep the fermentation container loosely covered (to allow gas to escape).
-siphon the contents to the bottling container, mixing in 50 grams of brown sugar which had been boiled/dissolved in water (or half a teaspoon for each bottle).
-bottle and wait for 2 weeks
Considering we know the basics of home brewing, and that we have the proper means of making the mash and wort, the proper containers, and the proper sanitation, does this recipe sound alright for a 2.5 gallon batch? We know that brown sugar is not very common for making beer, but generally people who have used it say it gives good results. Any recommendations for improving it?
Keep in mind that we don't have access to any kits (you can't get them in southern spain very easily), and so the hops we have are generic hops that we bought from a natural foods shop (the malt extract as well).
-Bring 7 liters of water to a boil in a stainless steel pot.
-add 1.5 kilograms of malt extract and 15 grams of hops at the start of the boil, and 15 grams of hops 15 minutes from the end of the boil with 150 grams brown sugar. Total boil time, 1 hour.
-cool the pot until it reaches room temperature, adding water to bring the mix up to 10 liters.
-move the contents of the pot to a fermenting container adding 11.5 grams of diluted safale s-04 yeast.
-let sit for 2 weeks. Keep the fermentation container loosely covered (to allow gas to escape).
-siphon the contents to the bottling container, mixing in 50 grams of brown sugar which had been boiled/dissolved in water (or half a teaspoon for each bottle).
-bottle and wait for 2 weeks
Considering we know the basics of home brewing, and that we have the proper means of making the mash and wort, the proper containers, and the proper sanitation, does this recipe sound alright for a 2.5 gallon batch? We know that brown sugar is not very common for making beer, but generally people who have used it say it gives good results. Any recommendations for improving it?
Keep in mind that we don't have access to any kits (you can't get them in southern spain very easily), and so the hops we have are generic hops that we bought from a natural foods shop (the malt extract as well).