Has anyone tried to brew a 'double' IPA from kits? Thinking of something like:
Better Brew India Pale Ale 2.1 Kgs Beer Kit
BH Light LME Liquid Malt Extract 1.5 Kg
Muntons Foil Pack Spraymalt Light 0.5 Kg
Dextrose 0.5Kg
25g Cascade 5 min boil with the 0.5Kg DME
25g Cascade dry hopped
Not sure if there'll be enough hops for the malt. Does anyone know a good online calculator for recipe formulation to calculate estimated starting gravity when using kits, LME, DME? I'd be aiming for something around 7.5%.
Try Brewmate http://www.brewmate.net/ It's free, and I'm using it at the moment, because it looks a bit simpler to use than Beersmith.
the problem with both brewmate and beersmith is that neither of them have kits in their ingredients lists.
Try this http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/29655-kit-and-extract-beer-spreadsheet/page-20 (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.
Isn't the point of kit that it IS the only ingredient?
Should Guinness and Blackcurrant be classed as a beer hack?
Quote from: johnrm on August 29, 2013, 07:14:24 AMShould Guinness and Blackcurrant be classed as a beer hack?
"We don't do cocktails". :P
If you are looking to get into double IPA territory, ideally you would have 3 or 4 times the amounts of hops you are planning to use, in order to compliment a strenght of 7.5%, but then I am a bit of a hophead! You could probably do with doing more than a 5 minute boil as well, but I'm not sure how much existing bitterness the kit would have. I would overdo the hops, rather than underdo them, as they will mellow with time, and at that strength it would need a bit of conditioning time.
Quote from: LordEoin on August 29, 2013, 12:16:54 AM
the problem with both brewmate and beersmith is that neither of them have kits in their ingredients lists.
Try this http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/29655-kit-and-extract-beer-spreadsheet/page-20 (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.
Great find. That's a very useful spreadsheet. :)
Quote from: johnrm on August 29, 2013, 07:14:24 AMIsn't the point of kit that it IS the only ingredient?
I wouldn't say so. In my eyes, the point of a kit is that i can avoid wasting my day mashing and boiling.
Kit+kilo will make
beer, but adding other ingredients will make
great beerQuote from: Taf on August 29, 2013, 09:22:10 AM
If you are looking to get into double IPA territory, ideally you would have 3 or 4 times the amounts of hops you are planning to use, in order to compliment a strenght of 7.5%, but then I am a bit of a hophead! You could probably do with doing more than a 5 minute boil as well, but I'm not sure how much existing bitterness the kit would have.
You hop monster Taf! ;D
But the man's got a point. Double the hops (100g) should be fine. It's cascade so it should carry well, but yeah maybe 30g@15min, 30g@5min, 40g dryhop. Not sure, if you'd need/want a longer boil addition for extra bittering (depends on your taste)
why not have 2 varieties? like cascade and chinook, or my current favorite cascade and Bramling Cross.
The IBU guessing is why I prefer Coopers' Kits, they provide a kit goop spec (eg coopers IPA = Weight - 1.7kg, Colour - 230EBC, Bitterness - 710IBU) which you can translate to the final beer with "Kit IBU x volume in Liters / Brew volume = Brewed IBU" (some say about 20% of the IBU is lost in fermentation, but I'm not sure how true this is. Coopers say it's not)
Quote from: Garry on August 29, 2013, 04:37:59 PMGreat find. That's a very useful spreadsheet. :)
yeah, it's epic. Use it wisely!