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High hopped pale ale

Post #1 made 16 years ago
by soupdragon
Hi all

I'm looking to formulate a nice refreshing ( 4.2% ish ) pale ale with a really heavy hop flavour. My initial thoughts are, for a 23 litre brew.......

2 kg Pale malt
1.5 kg Dried Extract
15 g Target for 90 mins
30 g Amarillo for 15 mins
30 g Amarillo for 5 mins
35 g Amarillo at 80c steep for 20 mins
Safale us-05

The dried extract is there due to limited boiler size :sad:
I also have 100g of Chinook and about 70g of Bobek to play with.

Cheers Tom
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Post #2 made 16 years ago
by BrickBrewHaus
soupdragon wrote:The dried extract is there due to limited boiler size :sad:
Are you saying that your kettle isn't large enough to hold the entire mash volume if you were to use ~2 kg grain in place of 1.5 kg DME?

If so, you can leave out just enough water so that all the grain can fit. With the extra water you can do a miniature sparge to squeak out a few extra points or just pour it in the BK after mashing.
Last edited by BrickBrewHaus on 11 Jan 2011, 02:48, edited 5 times in total.

Post #4 made 16 years ago
by soupdragon
BrickBrewHaus wrote:
soupdragon wrote:The dried extract is there due to limited boiler size :sad:
Are you saying that your kettle isn't large enough to hold the entire mash volume if you were to use ~2 kg grain in place of 1.5 kg DME?

If so, you can leave out just enough water so that all the grain can fit. With the extra water you can do a miniature sparge to squeak out a few extra points or just pour it in the BK after mashing.
Hi BrickBrewHaus

I use a 15 litre stockpot for mashing and boiling and just about have the capacity to mash 4-5 kg of grain but not full volume as a BIAB so would need to sparge and would end up with 20 odd litres of wort. The max I can boil is about 13 litres so I mash the 2 kg in my bag then boil with the full amount of hops then add the dried extract and top up to 23 litres in the fermenter. I hope that has explained it?

Cheers Tom
Last edited by soupdragon on 11 Jan 2011, 06:12, edited 5 times in total.
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Post #5 made 16 years ago
by soupdragon
oz11 wrote:Have you used target before?

If not, go easy on it, it's a fairly errrm..... pungent hop, good for dry-hopping though :luck:

Some people seem to hate it!!
Hi oz11

I used them in my 1st BIAB. The recipe I used is the same as the one I'm asking about but without the Amarillo and I used 35g of Target for the full 90 min boil.....
The beer has turned out great so thought I'd tweak it a bit as I like a lot of hop flavour in my beers :)

Cheers Tom
Last edited by soupdragon on 11 Jan 2011, 06:17, edited 5 times in total.
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Post #6 made 16 years ago
by BrickBrewHaus
soupdragon wrote:I use a 15 litre stockpot for mashing and boiling and just about have the capacity to mash 4-5 kg of grain but not full volume as a BIAB so would need to sparge and would end up with 20 odd litres of wort. The max I can boil is about 13 litres so I mash the 2 kg in my bag then boil with the full amount of hops then add the dried extract and top up to 23 litres in the fermenter.
Sounds like maxi-BIAB to me :)

Sorry to detract from your original intent which was to get advice on your recipe.
Last edited by BrickBrewHaus on 11 Jan 2011, 06:38, edited 5 times in total.

Post #7 made 16 years ago
by soupdragon
BrickBrewHaus wrote:
soupdragon wrote:I use a 15 litre stockpot for mashing and boiling and just about have the capacity to mash 4-5 kg of grain but not full volume as a BIAB so would need to sparge and would end up with 20 odd litres of wort. The max I can boil is about 13 litres so I mash the 2 kg in my bag then boil with the full amount of hops then add the dried extract and top up to 23 litres in the fermenter.
Sounds like maxi-BIAB to me :)

Sorry to detract from your original intent which was to get advice on your recipe.
I didn't think I'd quite have the boil capacity for a Maxi with my pot being smaller? :sad:
I do have a 48 litre pot that I " aquired " from work but it needs a hell of a clean before I dare use it. It's coated with dried on turmeric oleoresin, a tuff bugger to shift :sad:

Cheers Tom
Last edited by soupdragon on 11 Jan 2011, 06:52, edited 5 times in total.
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