A kit or kit have similar to Bigfoot

[benji]

Just wondering if anyone knows of a kit similar to Sierra Nevada's Bigfoot, it is a barley wine style ale with lots of hops, I'm guessing a barley wine kit with hop additions but I don't know enough about hops to give it a go, anyone out there who tried Bigfoot care to help

[LordEoin]

A quick google shows a few recipes all looking something similar to this for 23L:

Hops
Variety Alpha Amount Form When
1 oz. Chinook (12% AA, 75 min.)
1 oz. Centennial (10.5% AA, 45 min.)
1 oz. Cascade (6% AA, 30 min.)
0.5 oz. Cascade (6% AA, 5 min.)
0.5 oz. Centennial (10.5% AA, 5 min.)

Dry Hop in secondary 14 days with:
0.5 oz Chinook
0.5 oz Centennial
0.5 oz Cascade

White Labs California Ale WLP001

OG 1.080 to 1.090
Aiming for about 80 IBU

If you're going for something like that, It'll take about 6kg of DME.
If you're getting your bittering from kits, twocan it and use 3kg DME.
Maybe something along the lines of:
2 X muntons barley wine or coopers English bitter
2 X 1.5kg cans of LME
300g carapils/crystal steep
25g centennial, 30 min boil
25g cascade, 30 min boil
15g centennial, 5 min boil
15g cascade, 5 min boil
White Labs California Ale WLP001 or Wyeast 1056
15g centennial, dryhop
15g cascade, dryhop
15g chinook, dryhop

It'd be expensive, strong, and take a long time.

I'd probably just end up usng the late hops and brewing:
1 X coopers english bitter (two if you want the extra bittering and abv)
2kg Light DME
250g medium crystal (or carapils)
15g each cascade, centennial, 10 min boil
15g each chinook, cascade, centennial, dryhop
nottingham yeast (maybe 2)

[Garry]

Myst all crytey 

[LordEoin]

go home garry, you're drunk... 

[Garry]

go home garry, you're drunk... 

I am home, (and drunk)

I've never tasted the bigfoot but I agree with m'lord that a twocan will give you lots of bitterness. An alternative is to brew 1 can to 10 litres. Still expensive 

G'wan, I double dare ya 

[LordEoin]

I'm not trying it. too much of a TAG coming up to christmas. Bah humbug...

[benji]

So I think I might try this tweek on LordEoins recipe in a couple of weeks

Brew to 10l
1 X coopers english bitter
1kg Light DME
125g medium crystal (or carapils)
7.5g each cascade, centennial, 10 min boil
7.5g each chinook, cascade, centennial, dryhop
nottingham yeast

can any calculate the abv on this and how long do you reckon I would need to age it for

[Garry]

9.0 ABV 

[Garry]

Try this http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/29655-kit-and-extract-beer-spreadsheet/page-20
Although you'll need to register to aussiehomebrewer to download it, and you'll need excel to run it.

LordEoin, do you think you could make a sticky of the above link? Or maybe start a downloads/links thread in the kit forum and stickey it?

Would we need permission to upload this excel file to this forum?

[LordEoin]

I think it's already in one of the stickied threads, no?

edit - it's actually in the 'how to kit hack' thread. I suppose I could sticky that thread to be a follow up on the beginners' guide.

[Garry]

I think it's already in one of the stickied threads, no?

edit - it's actually in the 'how to kit hack' thread. I suppose I could sticky that thread to be a follow up on the beginners' guide.

Ok

[benji]

Thanks lads, I must check that calculator out, I long do you reckon I should let this age for ?

[Garry]

A rule of thumb i've heard for aging is one week per 0.010 og. This beer should have an og of 0.093 so 9 to 10 weeks min.

I'd day you could leave a beer like this for years though.