Can some more experienced brewers have a quick look at this recipe and see if it's ok? After my first devastating failure I want to try something that's still simple, but not with an extract. I want to make ten litres of IPA beer so are these ingredients ok?
15 Litres of water
2.5kg Maris Otter grain
70g Mosaic Hops
US-05 Yeast
So I wanted to try homebrewing for the first time, so I bought a plastic fermenter, an airlock, some sanitizer and a Coopers australian pale ale extract kit. I think I put around 22L or water in. I let it ferment for two weeks using dextrose as the sugar, and then moved it into bottles, added some table sugar for secondary fermentation and let it rest for another two weeks. I did all of this in my room which probably averaged 23 degrees during the day with some high points as it was summer. When I tried the beer, it tasted pretty watery, and not much like beer. It tasted like watered down bitter kind of bad apple cider. I'm thinking about trying again but does anyone know what caused it and what I could do to avoid it in the future? I don't think it's a issue of infection because wouldn't that make it taste more blatantly gross instead of just kind of bad? I don't have a lot of knowledge about this so far and would love to get some advice, thanks.