I have been working on beertoad to formulate a new recipe trying to get color, bitterness, alcohol where I want them on paper before I brew.
Beertoad has a list of styles (incomplete I think) and will tell you if your recipe conforms to your selected style. Of course all recipes conform to the escape category of specialty beer. Beertoad has allowable ranges of SRM, OG, FG, ABV, IBU and OG to IBU for each of the styles. Apparently if doesn't care where your grains come from or whether the name of your yeast matches the name of your style.
I have been working on a Golden Ale recipe but I can't quite get the recipe to conform to any style I have tried. The closest style I have found is a Belgium strong ale but that style requires a high ABV and puts limits on OG and FG that are difficult to meet. I think that most Belgium strong ale uses sugar to get those numbers and an extremely high attenuation yeast.
Anyway I want a style that has less alcohol than the Belgium Strong Ales but more than I found in your usual ale styles. I want about 6-7% ABV. Of course the color needs to be golden about a 6 or 7 SRM. Like the Belgium styles I want the sweetness bitterness to be a little on the sweet side.
Please help me escape the feeling that my beer is lost in space, and avoid the dreaded designation of specialty brew. Help me find a style.
Thanks
Beertoad has a list of styles (incomplete I think) and will tell you if your recipe conforms to your selected style. Of course all recipes conform to the escape category of specialty beer. Beertoad has allowable ranges of SRM, OG, FG, ABV, IBU and OG to IBU for each of the styles. Apparently if doesn't care where your grains come from or whether the name of your yeast matches the name of your style.
I have been working on a Golden Ale recipe but I can't quite get the recipe to conform to any style I have tried. The closest style I have found is a Belgium strong ale but that style requires a high ABV and puts limits on OG and FG that are difficult to meet. I think that most Belgium strong ale uses sugar to get those numbers and an extremely high attenuation yeast.
Anyway I want a style that has less alcohol than the Belgium Strong Ales but more than I found in your usual ale styles. I want about 6-7% ABV. Of course the color needs to be golden about a 6 or 7 SRM. Like the Belgium styles I want the sweetness bitterness to be a little on the sweet side.
Please help me escape the feeling that my beer is lost in space, and avoid the dreaded designation of specialty brew. Help me find a style.
Thanks