House Pale Ale - AG

I watched a boatload of Grainfather videos before I took the plunge, and it seems 80% is a realistic value, so I'll go for 75% as a guess and calculate it later. The Grainfather constantly circulates wort during the mash so that's why it may get better than average efficiency, I guess. I just a few minutes ago bought the Brewer's Friend iPhone app, so I'll plug your recipe into it and see what it tells me to do.

 

Got the app and 2-year account on brewersfriend.com, punched everything in and here is what it spit out. I guess the only thing to check is the pitch rate. I thought it would go ahead and tell you how many packages/cells etc of yeast you'd need. After I brew this I'll check pre-boil gravity, OG & FG.

HOME BREW RECIPE:
Title: Jon Snow's House Pale Ale
Author: Jon Snow

Brew Method: All Grain
Style Name: American Amber Ale
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Boil Size: 7.5 gallons
Boil Gravity: 1.036
Efficiency: 75% (brew house)

STATS:
Original Gravity: 1.054
Final Gravity: 1.014
ABV (standard): 5.29%
IBU (tinseth): 46.13
SRM (morey): 7.01

FERMENTABLES:
9.25 lb - United Kingdom - Golden Promise (94.9%)
0.5 lb - American - Caramel / Crystal 40L (5.1%)

HOPS:
1 oz - Citra, Type: Pellet, AA: 11, Use: Boil for 10 min, IBU: 17.2
1 oz - Amarillo, Type: Pellet, AA: 8.6, Use: Boil for 10 min, IBU: 13.45
1 oz - Citra, Type: Pellet, AA: 11, Use: Boil for 5 min, IBU: 9.46
1 oz - Cascade, Type: Pellet, AA: 7, Use: Boil for 5 min, IBU: 6.02
1 oz - Citra, Type: Pellet, AA: 11, Use: Boil for 0 min, IBU: 0
1 oz - Amarillo, Type: Pellet, AA: 8.6, Use: Boil for 0 min, IBU: 0
1 oz - Cascade, Type: Pellet, AA: 7, Use: Boil for 0 min, IBU: 0

MASH GUIDELINES:
1) Sparge, Temp: 154 F, Time: 60 min, Amount: 4.25 qt

YEAST:
Wyeast - American Ale 1056
Starter: No
Form: Liquid
Attenuation (avg): 75%
Flocculation: Med-Low
Optimum Temp: 60 - 72 F
Fermentation Temp: 62 F
Pitch Rate: 0.35 (M cells / ml / deg P)

NOTES:
Wyeast 1056 @ 62F for 7 days, raise to 70f afterwards.

Personally, I kegged after 14 days from start of fermentation, but left at room temp for an additional 7 days in the keg.

Generated by Brewer's Friend - http://www.brewersfriend.com/
Date: 2015-09-23 18:19 UTC
Recipe Last Updated: 2015-09-23 18:18 UTC

 

I'm stupid and don't know anything, but how big of a diff is 0.005? Just playing with the numbers it says I'll need 10.1lb but my ingredients are no different than your's, so why the difference? Just because of the efficiency?

 

Just noticed I misspelled your first name - my apologies. I don't know where I got "Jon" from, but I'll fix it.

 

The true scandal is that his real name is neither Jon nor John! *gasp*

 

Meh, my real name isn't Ron Obvious either, it's Kelly Beard. Whatever.

 

Gonna brew this one again! My friend liked it so much that he asked me to make him a keg to serve at a concert he'll be playing in February. Only change I'm going to make is to us US-05 instead of WLP001 this time, which I'm guessing won't change much.

 

Did something inspired by this last week, but used Centennial (10, 5, FO), Simcoe (10, FO) and Amarillo (5, FO) instead. Pumped to keg this!