Ag#18 Coconut Stout & 19 Pale Ale (I think!)

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abeyptfc

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Hi folks, brewed 2 batches this weekend, I'm not sure if its batches 18 & 19, it might be 17&18, who knows.
First up was a pre-made stout ingredient kit from the homebrew company so I don't know the exact recipe. the second was a pale ale that I made up myself. I mashed the stout on Friday night, then the pale ale on Saturday and boiled both today, one on the SS boiler and the other simultaneously on the plastic boiler.
For the stout I decided to add some dessicated coconut to the boil with 5 mins to go then left it steeping for 15 mins after flameout, then ran the wort through the coconut in a muslin bag into the fermenter.I'll taste after fermentation and decide whether to add more coconut to the stout.
For the Pale ale - the E366 hops are 'experimental 366' hops from the malt miller, said to have unique mango, grapefruit and pineapple flavours, the Wai-iti is meant to be full of citrus, mandarin and lime zest.
the recipe for the pale ale was 3.5KG Marris otter, 350g Caramalt 25, 190g wheat malt.
(60 min boil)hops were 11g Magnum FWH, 11g at 60, 13g Magnum at 20, 10 each of E366 and Wai-iti at 10, 20g of each at 5, 20g of each at 0.I used some 'west coast' yeast from the MM aswell.
ended up with 23L of stout and 25L of pale ale.
got a few photos
mashing in the pale


first runnings from the stout

the dug trying to get in about the stout

double boil on the go, stout on the left, pale on the right

stout coming to the boil

Pale Ale hitting the boil


coconut measured out, just over 300g


hops going into the Pale Ale
 
Bottled/kegged this lot today, ended up with 42 bottles of stout, 20 bottles of pale ale and around 14L in the cornie.
I added around 96g of extra coconut to the stout on wednesday night, I toasted some, took my eyes off it for 2 mins and ended up burning the top of it so had to scrape some off the top then decided to add some more from the bag. on tasting there is a sweetness to it but I can't really detect much of a coconut aroma or taste, I didn't want to overdo it and ruin the beer so hopefully a wee bit of flavour will come out in the bottle.
I added 26g of wai-iti and 26g experimental 366 hops to the ipa aswell, that just tastes awesome, heavy citrus & grapefruit coming from it, it was good enough to drink from the FV. :cheers:
 

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