Hi guys.
I have a brewday coming up on Friday and could use some input on this dilemma of mine.
So I am brewing this simple Red Ale Recipe: Ruabeoir Red Ale
I always input all the ingredients that I will use into brew father in order to get a good idea of if I am hitting the IBU targets, sparge water and so on.
So I did that, and having input everything the same as the recipe (though, I have my own Equipment profile which obviously affects a bit), I realised that I am undershooting the given IBU target by a whole lot.
Link to my brewfather recipe: Brewfather
I cannot figure out why. I have the same AA on the hops in brew father as the ones given in the recipe. Everything else is also about the same.
Through googling I found a replica of this recipe which someone had input into brewersfriend, and here the IBUs look about correct: Irish Red Ale (Ruabeoir) | Irish Red Ale BIAB Beer Recipe | Brewer's Friend (at least way closer).
The hops I got from my homebrew shop were only 4,4AA though, so I will obviously adjust my recipe for that, but I would first like to figure out why I cannot replicate the exact recipe, even as well as the guy on brewersfriend?
Should I stick with brewfather and do a bittering addition of 55g(!) of 4,4AA hops (according to brewfather), or should I stick with the recipe + adjusting for lower AA?
I have a brewday coming up on Friday and could use some input on this dilemma of mine.
So I am brewing this simple Red Ale Recipe: Ruabeoir Red Ale
- 11.25 lbs (5.1 kg) British pale malt
- 6.0 oz (170 g) Crystal (40 °L)
- 6.0 oz (170 g) Crystal (120 °L)
- 6.0 oz (170 g) Roasted Barley (300 °L)
- 1.25 oz (35 g) Kent Goldings hops, 5% AA (60 min)
- White Labs WLP004 Irish Ale, Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale, or Fermentis Safale US-05
Yield: 6 gallons (22.7 L)
Original Gravity: 1.054 (13.4 °P)
Final Gravity: 1.014 (3.6 °P)
ABV: 5.20%
IBU: 25
SRM: 17
Boil Time: 60 minutes
Efficiency: 70%
I always input all the ingredients that I will use into brew father in order to get a good idea of if I am hitting the IBU targets, sparge water and so on.
So I did that, and having input everything the same as the recipe (though, I have my own Equipment profile which obviously affects a bit), I realised that I am undershooting the given IBU target by a whole lot.
Link to my brewfather recipe: Brewfather
I cannot figure out why. I have the same AA on the hops in brew father as the ones given in the recipe. Everything else is also about the same.
Through googling I found a replica of this recipe which someone had input into brewersfriend, and here the IBUs look about correct: Irish Red Ale (Ruabeoir) | Irish Red Ale BIAB Beer Recipe | Brewer's Friend (at least way closer).
The hops I got from my homebrew shop were only 4,4AA though, so I will obviously adjust my recipe for that, but I would first like to figure out why I cannot replicate the exact recipe, even as well as the guy on brewersfriend?
Should I stick with brewfather and do a bittering addition of 55g(!) of 4,4AA hops (according to brewfather), or should I stick with the recipe + adjusting for lower AA?