Enigma Beer

[jenivida]

Hi all.

I am going to try a few batches of single hop all grain brews the idea being to try and emphasis the hop flavors without dry hopping.

This is kind of a template I am thinking of using firstly with Enigma hops

The idea being to try and keep the bitterness between around 56 IBU's for each of the different hop types. Then I would replicate the recipe for green bullet then simcoe then galaxy.

any thoughts / concerns before I commit? recipe below

Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 18.93 l
Boil Size: 21.58 l
Boil Time: 60 min
End of Boil Vol: 19.68 l
Final Bottling Vol: 18.93 l
Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage

Equipment: My Equipment
Efficiency: 72.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 72.0 %

5.00 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) Grain 1 90.9 %
0.50 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (236.4 EBC) Grain 2 9.1 %
20.00 g Enigma [16.50 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 3 25.6 IBUs
40.00 g Enigma [16.50 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 4 30.7 IBUs
40.00 g Enigma [16.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 5 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg British Ale Yeast (Mangrove Jack's #M07) Yeast 6 -

thanks in advanced

Jenivida

 

[clibit]

9% crystal 120L is quite a lot. It's a dark highly flavoured crystal, maybe what you want? If you want to really highlight the hops, I'd drop it to 5% or less.

 

[jenivida]

fair enough I just have a pant load of dark crystal which I am trying to use up. I ordered 5kg instead of 0.5 ;-)

 

[clibit]

It'll keep. :-)

Anyone you could swap with?

 

[jenivida]

Good question. Anyone near TW16 want to swap any grains (or home brew) for some dark crystal give me a shout.