Brewnight 12th June - Fugerillo IPA

[Calum]

I blame Colin for this - his brew night looked a lot of fun and I am sure I heard my son cough earlier . Well its not totally Colins fault, sitting watching Relocation Relocation with my wife also made me think that I could be doing something better with my time.

I have been toying with making an old fashioned IPA for a while but as I am doing this a bit on the lurch I will use some of the grains I have available and see how I get on. I only have 5.250kg of crushed pale malt so I am forced to use that as my base.

I have seen a couple of recipes for Amerillo IPA that I thought looked interesting but after talking to a couple of brewers and doing a bit of reading I thought I would combine it with Fuggles and see how I get on. Hence, Fugerillo IPA was born.

My plan is to brew a fairly strong IPA in the 5.6 abv range. Make it fairly well hopped, leave it to condition IPA style over the summer in an old plastic Boots barrel (it is a very consistent barrel), bottle in September/October so that it is ready for Christmas and beyond.

Recipe
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Brew Length 23l
Expected Eff 70%

Grains
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Marris Otter 5.250kg
Wheat Malt 0.581kg
Flaiked Maize 0.100kg
Torrified Wheat 0.200kg
Malted Oats 0.150kg
Crystal Malt 0.050kg

Hops
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Start Amerillo(8%) 40g
Start Fuggles(5%) 40g

15mins Amerillo(8%) 15g
10mins Fuggles(5%) 15g
5mins Amerillo(8%) 15g
5mins Fuggles(5%) 15g
End Amerillo(8%) 30g
End Fuggles(5%) 30g

Yeast
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Safale US-05 (okay, not traditional IPA but I want to try it )

Irish Moss 1g Last 15

At 70% efficiency I am hoping for OG of 1057 and a racking of 1014 giving an ABV of 5.6%

IBU will be around 80 but I only 61 of those come from the copper hops, the rest are aroma so I expect it will not be too harsh given the aging process.

It is going to be a long day at work as I cannot wait to get going.

[Vossy1]

Good luck C

[Scooby]

Have a good one C

I've just brewed my panhandle bitter and couldn't find any Amarillo recipes so came up with one of my own, it's the first time I have used them.

What were the other recipes? What did the other brewers and books say to make you combine it with fuggles?

Sorry for the interrogation, I had Crouch Vale 'Amarillo' and Roosters 'Outlaw Amarillo' recently which inspired me to get the hops, but as I have said have drawn a blank regarding recipes.

[mysterio]

Looks good Calum. It will be interesting to see if the Fuggles come through with all that Amarillo. I also bet that the US-05 will drop it below 1.014, that yeast is a real workhorse.

[Calum]

In the end I made it into the office for 7:30am so I don't feel so guilty about leaving to get an early train.

I've just brewed my panhandle bitter and couldn't find any Amarillo recipes so came up with one of my own, it's the first time I have used them.

What were the other recipes? What did the other brewers and books say to make you combine it with fuggles?

I have never used Amerillo before but I thought I would pick some up with the intention of making a single varietal brew and try it out. I subsequently found an Amerillo IPA recipe on a US forum but one of the criticisms was that it was a bit one dimensional and perhaps could have been better as with a blend of hops. Discussions with other more experienced brewers gave me the same impression. This left me with a decision to make given the taste profile I was looking at and also the fact that I have just bought 400g of Fuggles from The Reaper . Seriously, I like to get heavy handed with aroma additions of Fuggles and Styrians when I am making pale ales so I do not see it as a gamble but it is an experiment.

I also bet that the US-05 will drop it below 1.014, that yeast is a real workhorse.

This is another new feature of this brew as I have never used US-05 before. My homemade spreadsheet simply estimates a 75% attenuation, however, I'm not being too scientific and will be happy to accept the outcome if it goes lower.

[Scooby]

Cheers calum, not sure what a one dimensional beer tastes like but I suppose the Americans do

As it's been quite warm I have kept mine in a closed up cool room, when I went in there to check during the first days of primary the room was filled with a spicy fruit salad aroma, if it tastes as good as the smell I will be using them again

[Calum]

I never managed to update last night but overall the brew went smoothly. However, I ended up with a smaler batch than I had expected. On retrospect I should probably have built in a bit more tolerance for the amount of liquid lost. A couple of notes on the lost liquid:

1, My 8.8kw/hr gas ring is very hot but about as subtle as a punch in the face. I can turn the heat down a bit but even then I lost around 20% in the hour (I have cut down to a 60 minute boil).

2, As I used 200g of hops the amount lost to the hops was more than I expected. There was a good layer of about 10cm at the bottom of the boiler after run off.

In the end the efficiency was around 65% which wasn't great but then again I'm not an accountant and as long as the final product is good and I enjoy it I would have no hesitation in doing it the same way again.