Help designing a recipe

[Oh Crap]

Howya
Just did a stock check before heading to brew shop tomorrow. And realised I have plenty of ingredients for a few brews.
Currently I have 2 free kegs to fill & 90 bottles (500ml) My auld fella isn't into hoppy beer so I want to brew a malty one for him.
Here's what I got

Grain
20.5 kg pale malt
3 kg abbey malt
1kg cara Amber
750 g carahell
500g Munich
500g chocolate, black & roasted barley
500g busicuit
440g carapils
400g melanodin
400 busicuit (champagne)
175g crystal 15
300g flaked rice

Hops (all approx 70/100g)
Target, progress, north down, fugues, challenger, magnum, Saaz, pearls & cascade

Yeast, s-04, s-23, safbrew abbey & wlp001(might keep that for a Serria Nevada clone)

3 vessel system: 2 converted kegs for BK & mash tun & a 32l HLT.
Also mash tun will have its own heat source from tomorrow.
Last brew was a leffe clone being kegged on sat.
Any ideas or recipes welcome....I'll give a couple of bottles of what I brew to the recipe owners.
Cheers for any help
Glenn

[Jay Dee]

Hi Oh Crap,
Was just killing time browsing through old posts (you never know what little bits of info you might pick up).  I noticed that noone replied to your text.
My best advice for recipe formulation is this:
Download brewmate because you can work offline with it and you can save multiple recipes.  It seems daunting at the beginning because you mightn't know what to input for all the settings.  For every cell you're unfamiliar with google what it's about.  If you do the research yourself it's more likely to sink in and you'll get a better feel for the brewing process.  It has a style nazi function that is also a little bit helpful. 
As for recipes, I think there are too many "best ever beer" recipes online.  If you try some of the podcasts on the brewing network, they go through lots of styles, and importantly, they give you an idea of the percentages of grain types like crystal malts, etc. that are appropiate for each style.
The nice thing about brewmate, is that you can make last minute adjustments to your hop weights once you know your preboil gravity and postboil gravity.  As it has a bu:gu calculator you can always end up with a bitterness level to you or your friends taste.  You can also adjust the attenuation percentage for the yeast you typically use and get better estimates for future final gravities.
Finally, once you've done a brew you can lock the ingredients and adjust some of the data to find out exactly what your brewing efficiency was.  Once you know that, assuming all future brews are done in the same manner, you can better calculate how all future brews will turn out.

[Oh Crap]

Hi Oh Crap,
Was just killing time browsing through old posts (you never know what little bits of info you might pick up).  I noticed that noone replied to your text.
My best advice for recipe formulation is this:
Download brewmate because you can work offline with it and you can save multiple recipes.  It seems daunting at the beginning because you mightn't know what to input for all the settings.  For every cell you're unfamiliar with google what it's about.  If you do the research yourself it's more likely to sink in and you'll get a better feel for the brewing process.  It has a style nazi function that is also a little bit helpful. 
As for recipes, I think there are too many "best ever beer" recipes online.  If you try some of the podcasts on the brewing network, they go through lots of styles, and importantly, they give you an idea of the percentages of grain types like crystal malts, etc. that are appropiate for each style.
The nice thing about brewmate, is that you can make last minute adjustments to your hop weights once you know your preboil gravity and postboil gravity.  As it has a bu:gu calculator you can always end up with a bitterness level to you or your friends taste.  You can also adjust the attenuation percentage for the yeast you typically use and get better estimates for future final gravities.
Finally, once you've done a brew you can lock the ingredients and adjust some of the data to find out exactly what your brewing efficiency was.  Once you know that, assuming all future brews are done in the same manner, you can better calculate how all future brews will turn out.

Cheers jay dee
I ended up doing 2 brews after that, an snpa clone (sea air a pale ale) and a red ale, a caffe eyes style to be served on nitro) I've also got 2 lagers about to go on for august consumption, oh funny that my birthday is in August. Doing a light one for her good self and I really like dark/black lagers so that'll do nicely. But I still have a hell of a lot of grain since I acquired 25kg lager malt a a good price.

[Jay Dee]

It sounds like you're on the ball with the recipes then.  That's a nice selection of beers.  Happy days.
Enjoy the summer.