Southern Cross?

[DarloDave]

planning on making a single hop pale ale with some of these I have . Has any body used them before on here? What can I expect from them?

[mysterio]

If you post the hops you have, i'm sure we can help

EDIT: OH sorry. Southern Cross is the name of the hop. Never heard of 'em

[DarloDave]

anybody?... im brewing with these tomorrow

[DarloDave]

..was just about to start brewing this now, then I smashed my thermometer. doh!

[mysterio]

Hopefully not inside the mash tun, i've done that before

[DarloDave]

on the kitchen floor, thats two ive smashed now in as many months!

[Garth]

thought I'd bump this thread as like Dave, I have 90g of Southern Cross 13.2AA pellets and would like a recipe that uses them if anyone has one kicking about.

Dave, did you ever use them? If you did, what were they like?

The vaccuum seal has gone on my packet so they could do with using up soonish.

I have some organic Rakau also, anyone?

[DarloDave]

I havent used them yet Garth, Im gonna just go for a pale ale with mine I think. 50grams 10 mins from end, then the rest split between flame out and dry hops

[sib67]

I have also got a pack of these that a friend recently brought back from New Zealand. He brought himself a pack back as well, and brewed with them a few weeks ago. Apparently, it's a very nice brew - I will be sampling it tomorrow

[Garth]

sib, you'll have to let us know what it's like and what hop schedule/grain bill he used.

[sib67]

sib, you'll have to let us know what it's like and what hop schedule/grain bill he used.

I'm drinking a pint of it now - it's really good

Grain bill was all pale, OG 1060. The full pack of pellets were used, 25g at 60mins, 25g at 45mins, 25g at 30mins, and 25g at 15mins. I would highly recommend giving it a go.

Yeast was S04.

[DarloDave]

What do they taste like? Give us some descriptions

[Garth]

I'm drinking a pint of it now - it's really good

Grain bill was all pale, OG 1060. The full pack of pellets were used, 25g at 60mins, 25g at 45mins, 25g at 30mins, and 25g at 15mins. I would highly recommend giving it a go.

Yeast was S04.

well that's good enough for me, sounds great, will be doing a 60 litre batch so might have to use something else to bitter it and leave the SC for the flavour/aroma

I take it was a 23 litre batch?

[sib67]

I'm drinking a pint of it now - it's really good

Grain bill was all pale, OG 1060. The full pack of pellets were used, 25g at 60mins, 25g at 45mins, 25g at 30mins, and 25g at 15mins. I would highly recommend giving it a go.

Yeast was S04.

Sorry - brewlength was 40 litres (2 cornies).

well that's good enough for me, sounds great, will be doing a 60 litre batch so might have to use something else to bitter it and leave the SC for the flavour/aroma

I take it was a 23 litre batch?

[sib67]

I sent the last post from my iPhone in the pub, and I must have typed it in the middle of the quote

The brewlength was 40 litres.