First galaxy biab attempt

Post #1 made 11 years ago
Well this is my first shot at creating something similar to old golden hen. I have a 100g of galaxy and will use whats left over in the dry hop.

Oh and it's my second biab too :thumbs:

All thoughts welcome
galaxy single hop.xls
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Last edited by flitters on 07 Jun 2015, 01:20, edited 1 time in total.

Post #2 made 11 years ago
I like Golden Hen too, but I don't know a thing about the recipe or fermentation etc. So I can't really comment about whether it is going to get you what you expect. On your BIABacus though here are my observations;

90 minute boil is preferred to 60 minute, but as long as you are consciously aware of your choice & reason for it, go for it.
Section C - you only need to enter an O.G. value on the right if it is different. No problem here, just an observation.
Not sure where your VAW figure of 27L comes from, but the BIABacus will use this value to scale the hop bill "what you will use". You may be better off finding out the Golden Hen IBU value and entering that instead. However, this too may be problematic as it will likely be difficult to find that value and also what formula was used to calculate it (Rager, Garetz, Tinseth).

It's your recipe, and you are the head brewer, but I am not sure I would do that hop schedule.
I have heard that Galaxy "CAN" be problematic when used as a bittering addition, so I would be tempted to use a neutral, high AA% hop to get your IBU's up, then use the Galaxy purely for aroma & flavour.
One other thing to consider is that the early formation of the hot break has been reported to affect hop utilisation. Due to this, my standard practice is to NOT add hops to the boil until at least half an hour has passed. With your schedule I would be adding my bittering hops with 30 minutes to go, so I would have to use more hops, or increase the boil time so that I get a 60 minute addition.

I would recommend a hop sock if you can get/make one easily. This cuts down on losses to trub, and means you can make more beer or have more headspace (which I think you may need)!

I am not sure whether you have had numerous brews with your equipment, and therefore know that you will get 75% efficiency & 0.40 L/Kg loss from lauter, but I would recommend removing these entries and using the default values for now. Take notes on the brew day, and compare them to BIABacus predictions. If there is a repeatable difference (recommended to do around 5 brews), then make adjustments to suit.

With all that said; I am confident that if you ignored everything and carried on as planned, it will still make a great beer.
Keep us updated if/when you go ahead, as I am keen to see whether it met expectations.

:luck:
Last edited by mally on 08 Jun 2015, 15:21, edited 1 time in total.
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Post #3 made 11 years ago
Hi Mally

Thanks for the reply, your thought are very much appreciated, I've reset the VAW, still getting to grips with biabcaus. :headhit:

I usually don't add the hops until the hot break is done anyway which usually take a while. This is my first brew using the software so it could be hit and miss, hopefully more hit though.

Well Ive tweaked the hop schedule to a 45min, 10min and 5min so less bitter and hopefully more flavour and aroma, I will be using what ever is leftever for dry hopping anyway, so about 40g.
On a side not though what difference is the between adding hops at 80c compared to dry hopping?

Anyway new doc attached. Thoughts welcome
galaxy single hop.xls
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Last edited by flitters on 09 Jun 2015, 03:28, edited 1 time in total.
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