So I’ve getting into the juicy part of the book, “For the Love of hops”, the recipes. I came a cross a recipe that simply perplexed me, New Zealand Pale Ale (page 248). For some reason I can’t really figure out the grain bill.
75% Pale malt
10% Munich
8% Caramalt
2% Pale Crystal malt
Oh well, I probably won’t get my hands on any Wai-ti this year anyways.
Howdy,
Percentage recipes like what you posted are all about getting numbers across in a way that lets you adjust for your system efficiency.
So what you do what that sort of recipe is this: Take the efficiency of your system (say 70%) and the target OG (say 1.050) and figure out roughly how much grain would take to get you that gravity at your efficiency.
So take Pale Malt (1.036 points per pound) and multiply by your efficiency (.7) to get how effective grain is for you.
36*.7 = 25
Divide your target gravity by that number
50 / 25 = 2
So you need ~2 lbs per gallon of grain or 10 lbs for a 5 gallon batch.
10 * .75 = 7.5 lbs Pale Malt
10 * .10 = 1 lb Munich Malt
10 * .08 = 0.8 lb Caramalt
10 * .02 = 0.2 lb Pale Crystal Malt
Round as needed.
What is the remaining 5% mystery grain? The recipe only added up to 95%
It’s a “choose your own adventure” recipe.
It’s a Heironymystery.
I don’t have my copy in front of me, but I remember seeing a recipe that had a percentage of simple sugar to be added late that was listed separate from the grain bill - I wonder if this is the one.
It’s not. You could either make it 80% pale malt (I would) or you can adjust all of them slightly to hit 100%.
The missing 5% is torrified wheat or malted wheat
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It would be nice if the publisher created an errata page for this and other books.
IIRC Stan had an errata page on his website for his previous two.
who needs an errata page when the author will just come on here to enlighten us?
Thanks for taking the time Stan!
Personal apologies are always good, if humbling, but an errata page is also essential. That or don’t make the dang mistakes to begin with.
I’m not sure this guy has any idea what he’s talking about 
Thanks for the fix Stan
Thank you very much Stan.