ezraburke
DIPA Brewer
- Joined
- May 18, 2015
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Managed to find a few hours during my paternity leave to get our first SMaSH underway. 8kg of golden promise went in at 66c for 2 hours.
Uneventful mash with no temperature loss (i know, right?) and a quick sparge, lauter and recirculation. Pre-boil volume was 1.076, out by .002 which i'm happy with.
Boil on with additions at 60min (40g), 30min (20g), 20min (20g), flameout (30g). Going big on hops with this baby. There's another 40g and 50g dry hop addition going in in the next few days...
Cooled, whirlpooled and drained into two FV's (you'll see in a minute) with an OG of 1.082 (expected 1.087 so, once again, happy) with roughly 8.5l per FV.
FV1 had two packets of US-05 pitched into it. This is our standard workhorse yeast and formed part of a decision to experiment late in the day.
FV2 contains wyeast 1272 (American Ale II) which Brewdog seem to use a lot. They have a beer called Hype that is very similar to our SMaSH (except it's half the ABV and uses some amarillo too) that i've never tried but gets decent reviews on Ratebeer.
The experiment will determine, going forward, which yeast we use in our Imperial IPAs.
Uneventful mash with no temperature loss (i know, right?) and a quick sparge, lauter and recirculation. Pre-boil volume was 1.076, out by .002 which i'm happy with.
Boil on with additions at 60min (40g), 30min (20g), 20min (20g), flameout (30g). Going big on hops with this baby. There's another 40g and 50g dry hop addition going in in the next few days...
Cooled, whirlpooled and drained into two FV's (you'll see in a minute) with an OG of 1.082 (expected 1.087 so, once again, happy) with roughly 8.5l per FV.
FV1 had two packets of US-05 pitched into it. This is our standard workhorse yeast and formed part of a decision to experiment late in the day.
FV2 contains wyeast 1272 (American Ale II) which Brewdog seem to use a lot. They have a beer called Hype that is very similar to our SMaSH (except it's half the ABV and uses some amarillo too) that i've never tried but gets decent reviews on Ratebeer.
The experiment will determine, going forward, which yeast we use in our Imperial IPAs.
