For my 30th batch I've decided on something a wee bit special. After being told about the recipes on Hopville, I was like a kid in a sweet shop picking out my recipe. I've decided to go with something totally different to my previous recipes. Massive hop bill and a few grains I'm unfamiliar with......and liquid yeast.
I've had "issues" with Wyeast in the past so have stuck to the usual 05 and 04 strains. I fancied a change and also as my brewing skill/patience is increasing I thought I'd do better this time. Lastly, I went for White Labs as it was mentioned on the recipe and I've never used it before. Going to pitch the vial straight into the brew and harvest the yeast after primary for another brew. I'm not going to bother with a starter today as I brew to US batch sizes for my cornies and White Labs say 1 vial is enough for 20 litres - which is how much I make. The only issue I might have is that this beer is both dark and hoppy, which I believe will alter the yeast I harvest, however if I use it to brew another batch of this beer, then it should be cool. Thoughts?
Here we go, recipe is :
5.11kg Pale malt (crisp)
0.46kg Munich
0.15kg Carafa 3
0.15kg Chocloate
90min mash @ 66.7c
90 min boil
27g Chinook @ 60min
9g Chinook @ 30 min
9g nugget @ 30 min
18g Centennial @ 10 min
18g Magnum @ 10 min
36g Simcoe @ 5 min
18g Apollo @ 5 min
18g Magnum @ 5 min
28g Apollo dry hop for 7 days
28g Simcoe dry hop for 7 days
Estimated OG 1060
Estimated FG 1012
Estimated ABV 6.2%
Estimated IBU 90
Estimated colour 52
White Labs California yeast (WLP001)
The only tweaks I made was to replace the centennial with an apollo/columbus mix as The Malt Miller is out of centennial.
I also fitted a new exhaust to my motorbike last night and am desperate to go for a quick blast and scare the county so I left my boil (naughty boy) during the 90-60 min phase and guess what? Boil over - lost about a litre. Lesson learnt.
Also, I didnt take many pics during boil as the hop schedule was quite manic and there's loads of fruit flies/wasps about.
Lets not hang about! The pictures!
Enormous grain bill
Today's a good day
Mash
Wee bit over temp
Sparge
Runnings
The f**king motherload!
Wee treat for me!
Colour and gravity pic
Junk
Wee bit short of 20l
Ended a bit short of 20l unfortunately. Partly due to the boil over and massive hop schedule. Both easily fixed and stupid mistakes.
Gravity was massively over at 1074 as well so I could have liquored back but I didn't have any boiled water, etc ready and thought I'd just go with what I had.
I've had "issues" with Wyeast in the past so have stuck to the usual 05 and 04 strains. I fancied a change and also as my brewing skill/patience is increasing I thought I'd do better this time. Lastly, I went for White Labs as it was mentioned on the recipe and I've never used it before. Going to pitch the vial straight into the brew and harvest the yeast after primary for another brew. I'm not going to bother with a starter today as I brew to US batch sizes for my cornies and White Labs say 1 vial is enough for 20 litres - which is how much I make. The only issue I might have is that this beer is both dark and hoppy, which I believe will alter the yeast I harvest, however if I use it to brew another batch of this beer, then it should be cool. Thoughts?
Here we go, recipe is :
5.11kg Pale malt (crisp)
0.46kg Munich
0.15kg Carafa 3
0.15kg Chocloate
90min mash @ 66.7c
90 min boil
27g Chinook @ 60min
9g Chinook @ 30 min
9g nugget @ 30 min
18g Centennial @ 10 min
18g Magnum @ 10 min
36g Simcoe @ 5 min
18g Apollo @ 5 min
18g Magnum @ 5 min
28g Apollo dry hop for 7 days
28g Simcoe dry hop for 7 days
Estimated OG 1060
Estimated FG 1012
Estimated ABV 6.2%
Estimated IBU 90
Estimated colour 52
White Labs California yeast (WLP001)
The only tweaks I made was to replace the centennial with an apollo/columbus mix as The Malt Miller is out of centennial.
I also fitted a new exhaust to my motorbike last night and am desperate to go for a quick blast and scare the county so I left my boil (naughty boy) during the 90-60 min phase and guess what? Boil over - lost about a litre. Lesson learnt.
Also, I didnt take many pics during boil as the hop schedule was quite manic and there's loads of fruit flies/wasps about.
Lets not hang about! The pictures!
Enormous grain bill
Today's a good day
Mash
Wee bit over temp
Sparge
Runnings
The f**king motherload!
Wee treat for me!
Colour and gravity pic
Junk
Wee bit short of 20l
Ended a bit short of 20l unfortunately. Partly due to the boil over and massive hop schedule. Both easily fixed and stupid mistakes.
Gravity was massively over at 1074 as well so I could have liquored back but I didn't have any boiled water, etc ready and thought I'd just go with what I had.
