My Rye Ale

Beer Recipe Design
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I am looking to do a Rye Ale. Can you please let me know if this looks okay?

7 lbs Light LME
1 lbs Rye
.75 Cystal 80
.25 Flaked Barley
.25 Victory Malt

.5 Magnum @ 30 mins
.5 Hallertau Mitt @ 5 mins
.5 Cascade @ 5 mins

OG 1.052
FG 1.013
IBU 25
SRM 10
Abv 5.0

Thanks for any feed back

Justin

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Malted rye or flaked? If it’s flaked, you need some base malt in there and you need to do a minimash. If it’s rye malt, it will convert itself. Also, that’s a pretty small amount of rye. It may not be too noticeable.

BTW, NB sells a rye extract. You may want to look into that. It’s good stuff!

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Thanks Denny, it is malted rye. How much would you recommend? I am brewing tomorrow, so I don’t think that NB would be able to get the Rye extract here in time. But I will consider it for the next one. Thanks for the heads up.

How does the rest of the list look?

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[quote=“majorora”]Thanks Denny, it is malted rye. How much would you recommend? I am brewing tomorrow, so I don’t think that NB would be able to get the Rye extract here in time. But I will consider it for the next one. Thanks for the heads up.

How does the rest of the list look?[/quote]

I like to get pretty close to 20% (or more) of the grist as rye. In your case, I think upping it to 2 lb. would be appropriate. But that’s me…you could brew it as is and see what your impressions are. The rest of the recipe looks fine. A bit low on IBU for my taste, but then again, it’s not my beer!

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Thanks. I will up it to 2 lbs…I love rye beers but have never made one so Iwas going into this blind. Do you think iI should bitter with a full ounce of the magnum @60?

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Since I don’t know what the AA of the Magnum is, or what your boil volume will be, I have no way of knowing.

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Yesterday I bottled a batch of rye bitter that turned out great.