My Daughters Christening Ale - Dunked & Disorderly 25/05/08

[Bionicmunky]

Brewing an ale for the BBQ after my Daughter's christening in a few weeks.

I'm loving APAs & AAAs at the moment so it's that sort of style.

Dunked & Disorderly:

Batch: 42L
Target OG: 1047

Fermentables
Ingredient Amount % MCU When
UK Pale Ale Malt 7.500 kg 86.7 % 4.5 In Mash/Steeped
UK Medium Crystal 0.750 kg 8.7 % 9.5 In Mash/Steeped
UK Torrified Wheat 0.400 kg 4.6 % 0.1 In Mash/Steeped


Hops
Variety Alpha Amount IBU Form When
NZ Cascade 5.5 % 25 g 9.1 Loose Whole Hops First Wort Hopped
NZ Nelson Sauvin 11.5 % 25 g 19.0 Loose Whole Hops First Wort Hopped
NZ Nelson Sauvin 11.5 % 45 g 1.4 Loose Whole Hops 1 Min From End
NZ Cascade 5.5 % 45 g 0.7 Loose Whole Hops 1 Min From End
NZ Nelson Sauvin 11.5 % 30 g 0.0 Loose Whole Hops At 80c
NZ Cascade 5.5 % 30 g 0.0 Loose Whole Hops At 80c

Yeast wise it'll either be 2x Notts or 1 Notts & 1 SO4

Comments & suggestions welcome as always,

John

[WishboneBrewery]

I thought they wet the head with water from the fount...!

[DarloDave]

Hop bill sounds great

[adm]

That's going to be excellent - nice one!

Gotta love the Cascade and Nelson combo.

No 15/20 minute flavour addition?

[Bionicmunky]

This is on the boil now.

ADM: no 15 min addition as I'm using Si's hopping schedule again. See the hophead III post. If you like hoppy beers I can vouch it's a cracker of a schedule.

Cheers

J

[arturobandini]

I was under the impression that the steep and switch off wouldn't impart much hop flavour and only aroma? Is this what you're going for? Can smell the hops from here...delicious.

[Bionicmunky]

Ended up with 45l @ 1046, must calibrate the brewery again methinks

[Bionicmunky]

Down to 1015 after 48 hours.

Went for a 50/50 mix of notts and SO4 and it burned through the sugar.

Looking good

[Bionicmunky]

Kegged this last night, still a bit cloudy, probably mixing the yeasts and/or the torrified wheat.

Any how was getting worried about this one as the samples were not that nice, I thought it was maybe too much crystal.

I dropped it down to 10c on day 6 as it had held steady gravity wise for a couple of days and left it. it ended up at 1014, prolly due to accidently mashing at 68c rather than 67 (must get my herms finished).

Last night I took a half pint between kegs and oooooooh!.

Initially it's crystal, and SO4 then tick tick booooom! Cascades & NS.

SYMBO said "Mmmmm thats nice, oh, um oh Pink Grapefruit?!?!"

It's got two weeks in the keg till the Christening.