Manx Green Hop beer AG22 Brew Day With Pics

[Manx Guy]

Hi all!

Been a week or two since my last brewday, so I'm going to make a green hop brew using my home grown 'Hallertau' hops
As the AA% is unknown I have decided to bitter to 30 IBU using Northern Brewer.

Its a simple Pale Ale recipe, similar to the one I brewed last year with my oen grown hops. But last year I dried them first. This year they were vacpacked and then frozen (at the suggestion of another forum member)

Below is my recipe and I plan to get this on early tomorrow...

Pale Ale Malt (Manx Grown MO) 95.2%
Light Crystal Malt (UK) 4.8%
Target Preboil Gravity 1038 OG 1045
Efficency ~80%
IBUs est. 38IBU
Colour est. 11EBC

Northern Brewer AA% 8% to 30 IBU @90
Home grown 'Hallertau' AA% Unknown 200g @10 mins


Feel free to comment, any advice from folk that have done a green hop beer this year appreciated.


Cheers!
Guy

[Manx Guy]

Ok so I got the mash on at 7am this morning...

By 8.30 I had the house to myself - just in time for sparging
Boil is on now so I'm adding a few pics...

Grist (nice & simple):

Hops:


Hit Mash temp bang on (no faffing o waiting for the strike water to cool down)

Start of the run off - first runnings @ ~1075

Coming to the boil:



So far so good efficeny was slightly up as preboil gravity was a couple of points higher although I got my target volume.
However last runnings OG was still approx 1025 so I will continue to collect next time...

More to follow...

Cheers!

Guy

[Manx Guy]

Sorry for the delay in updating this...
I had a slight domestic emergency and had to drop everything shortly after I had pitched the yeast (kids...).

I got 24 litres in the FV at target gravity, yeast pitched and 24 hours later a nice healthy yeast heat on the brew and smelling good.
I'm fermenting this at 18C to minimise any yeast character to let the malt and hops come through (or thats the plan!)

So pretty happy, but hte proof will be in the tasting in 4 weeks time I guess...

Maybe a mod would like to move to the correct section 'brewdays' ?
As this started as a recipe idea (which didn't receive any feedback before brew day...

Cheers!

Guy

[WishboneBrewery]

You were much lighter on the hops than me! ha ha

How is the Manx grown barley doing?
Topic moved too

[Manx Guy]

Hi!
Yes much lighter on the hops, hence why I bittered with NB.

Due to a wet August I didnt get a very good crop at all my First Gold more or less went moldy on the bine

The Hallertau were more of a success with a reasonable show of big 'juicey' cones that didn't come out untill the better weather in late September.

Thats why I deceided to throw them all in at 10 mins (equivalent to a 20-25g dry hop addition?)

Any way although the finished beer is still not clear (seems to have a bit of a chill haze) it is nice, nothing 'clever or in yer face' but pleasantly grainy with a slightly fruity hoppy finish...

The Manx grown Barley is pretty good, nice aroma and flavour to it and the efficency I get with my set up is pretty consistant at 82% - even though I stop collecting early ( last runnings usually 1025 or so)

My last brew (an APA) used more hops, and its very fruity when bottled, I even dry hopped this time - it worked well and I have gotten over my phobia of infecting the beer!

I also seem to have my fermentation temp under better control which has improved things no end...
My homebrew doesn't taste so homebrewed these days...
Thanks for moving the topic...
Cheers!

Guy

[Manx Guy]

This is now nicely conditioned...




Tastes pretty good (Grainy malt and subtle hop with balanced bitterness) and just the right level of carbonation...
Nothing wierd or wonderfull from my own grown hops despite a teribble season...



Guy

[WishboneBrewery]

Thats nicely out of focus I'm going to bottle my Green-hopped beer tomorrow, hope the slightly green-vegetative taste has subsided.