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Could you run this thru and tell me what it comes out with?

American Pale Ale

Ingredients
8 lbs Mild Malt
1 lbs Munich Malt - 10L
4.0 oz Special B Malt

1.50 oz Cascade [7.10 %] (60 min) pellets
1.00 oz Cascade [7.10 %] (5 min) pellets
4.25 oz. Headwaters Ale Yeast (from starter)

1.00 oz Cascade [7.10 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) leaf

Not sure what you are looking for...have you ever tried Hopville? It is free and pretty cool http://www.hopville.com

Here is what I got:

Malts:
86% 8 lbs Mild Malt 4 °L
11% 1 lbsMunich Malt 9 °L
3% 4 oz Special B Malt 180 °L
Mash Efficiency 75%

Batch size: 7.0 gallons (I guessed)

Hops:
1.50 oz Cascade [7.10 %] (60 min) pellets
1.00 oz Cascade [7.10 %] (5 min) pellets
Avg. boil 6.0 gallons (I guessed again)

Original Gravity (1.031 to 1.037) 1.035
Final Gravity (1.007 to 1.009) 1.009

Color 8° SRM / 16° EBC (Gold to Copper)

Bitterness 35.4 IBU / 11 HBU ƒ: Tinseth , does not have a way to add dry hop though.

There is also a page for configuring your process...


Good luck!

For a five gallon batch on both Beersmith and Hopville the OG is around 1.051, the FG is 1.012, the ABV is just over 5%, the SRM is around 11, the IBUs are mid-40s and the BU/GU is close to 1.00.

..have you ever tried Hopville? It is free and pretty cool

That is a pretty good one,Don.It even calulates infusions;don't see that too often.Well,I haven't used the freebees for a while.

I broke down and got Beersmith. Pretty neat little program. Just trying to work with it.

Good decision.

This will be my first AG Batch. What do you guys think?

Blue Moon Clone

Type: All Grain
Date: 4/3/2011
Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Brewer: Art Cox ; Asst Brewer: Elizabeth Cox
Boil Size: 6.41 gal
Boil Time: 60 min
Equipment: Brew Pot (10.0 gal) and Cooler (48 qt)
Taste Rating(out of 50): 35.0 Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0

Ingredients
Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 43.5 %
4.00 lb Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 34.8 %
0.50 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 4.3 %
1.00 oz Goldings [4.50%] (60 min) Hops 16.8 IBU
1.00 oz Goldings [4.50%] (5 min) Hops 3.3 IBU
1.00 oz Coriander Seed (Boil 10.0 min) Misc
3.00 oz Orange Peel, Sweet (Boil 10.0 min) Misc
2.00 lb Honey (1.0 SRM) Sugar 17.4 %
11.0g Munich (Danstar) [Starter 237 ml] Yeast-Wheat



Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.067 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.016 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.6 %
Bitterness: 20.1 IBU
Est Color: 4.0 SRM


Mash Profile

Mash Type: Single Infusion, Full Body, Batch Sparge
Total Grain Weight: 9.50 lb
Sparge Water: 4.83 gal
Grain Temperature: 72.0 F
Sparge Temperature: 168.0 F
Tun Temperature: 72.0 F
Adjust Temp for Equipment:No
Mash PH: 5.4 PH

Name Description Step Temp Step Time
Mash In Add 2.97 gal of water at 170.5 F
158.0 F 45 min

I don't normally boil my orange peal and spices. I put them in at knock out to keep all the good stuff from boiling away. If you want extra orange notes like Blue Moon, skip that dried orange peal stuff and zest your own fresh. I get a variety at the store, navels, blood, grapefruit, whatever I feel like. Do a light zest and stay away from the white pith under the skin, it is extra bitter. Some people even put a little fresh squeezed in there

you say Knock Out. is that upon transfer to Primary as soon as its cool or at flame out?

At flame out during the whirlpool.

Or just fruit the beer in the glass.

john mills wrote:Or just fruit the beer in the glass.

Will someone please explain to me what's gotten into John...
fruit the beer in the glass....

Do a light zest and stay away from the white pith under the skin, it is extra bitter.

Wouldn't want it to taste like pith,huh.Thome of my beerth tath a little pthy thometimethe.