AG Pale Rider (first brew of the year - the shame!)

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AG Pale Rider (first brew of the year - the shame!)

Post by adm » Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:35 pm

Hi All,

I've not been on the forum much this year (if at all) due to lots of work travel etc... I haven't been brewing either for much the same reason. In fact - I've probably only drunk 10 pints or so of beer all year. The shame!!!!

Anyway, managed to get a brew on today at last. A simple Citra based pale/lager hybrid that will be ready for my lager drinking brother in law by the time his family come to stay over Easter.

I had a couple of cock ups - first my digital thermometer crapped out, second my March pump also kind of died - looks like a fixable problem with the head of the pump.

So - I made this:

Pale Rider (so called because it came out really pale....)

Grain Bill:
2.5Kg Lager Malt
2.5Kg Maris Otter
150g Wheat Malt
250g Caramalt

Hop Schedule (all Citra 2010 Whole Flowers, 13.8% AA)
First Wort: 12g
15 mins:15g
10 mins: 20g
5 mins: 22g
80C Steep: 29g (finished up the bag)

Yeast: 1 pack US-05

Here's some piccies:

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Bucket 'o Grain

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Lovely Citra flowers. These smelled great.

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FWH plus a bit of gypsum ready for the wort

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Here it comes! A lot paler than I thought it would be.

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Bullfinch going full chat. I was also busy cooking Ox Cheeks braised in red wine while this boiled and I didn't really keep my eye on it so I ended up with less than I wanted. 21L at about 1.056 instead of 23L at 1.052. Oh well. I added 1.5L of boiled water to bring it down in strength a bit.

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Nice cold break. I used the immersion chiller today as the pump was cream crackered and I didn't want to try gravity feed on the plate chiller.

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And the money shot. This looks like about 1.060 - but it's due to the angle and the wort being about 9C.

Anyway......that's now all aerated, pitched and tucked up in the fermenting chamber at 20C.

Yippee!

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Re: AG Pale Rider (first brew of the year - the shame!)

Post by WishboneBrewery » Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:09 pm

You obviously didn't take of picture of the Little Blue Chair, if you had you wouldn't have had those hiccups! ;)
I've not brewed at home for over a month now!

leedsbrew

Re: AG Pale Rider (first brew of the year - the shame!)

Post by leedsbrew » Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:15 pm

nice work man! And all for a LAGER drinker! ;)

leedsbrew

Re: AG Pale Rider (first brew of the year - the shame!)

Post by leedsbrew » Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:19 pm

pdtnc wrote:I've not brewed at home for over a month now!
thought you'd been a bit quiet ade! :D

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Re: AG Pale Rider (first brew of the year - the shame!)

Post by trucker5774 » Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:21 pm

................and I thought I was the only sinner :?

I did my first for 4 months today due to moving house. Not as strong as yours but my first ever using all Centennial hops.
Looking forward to the citrus hit :wink:

Well done on the pics............maybe one day!
John

Drinking/Already drunk........ Trucker's Anti-Freeze (Turbo Cider), Truckers Delight, Night Trucker, Rose wine, Truckers Hitch, Truckers Revenge, Trucker's Lay-by, Trucker's Trailer, Flower Truck, Trucker's Gearshift, Trucker's Horn, Truck Crash, Fixby Gold!

Conditioning... Doing what? Get it down your neck! ........

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Re: AG Pale Rider (first brew of the year - the shame!)

Post by WishboneBrewery » Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:49 pm

leedsbrew wrote:
pdtnc wrote:I've not brewed at home for over a month now!
thought you'd been a bit quiet ade! :D
Brewed at work at least once a week, just not at home... lots of brewing ideas, will get one on either this weekend or next I think.

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Re: AG Pale Rider (first brew of the year - the shame!)

Post by crookedeyeboy » Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:57 am

Seems to be a spate of it, I brewed a week ago for the first time since last June! I moved house in August and everything got shoved in the cellar till last week....must be something in the water :-)

adm

Re: AG Pale Rider (first brew of the year - the shame!)

Post by adm » Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:40 am

In my defence, I still have lots of beer in cornies and bottles in the garage. I might try and get a sneaky brew on this weekend as well. Hmm......maybe a stout...

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