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Back in March, I brewed a very light Ale made with only Pale Maris otter and a small amount of Torrified wheat.

On the advice of Stonechat supported by Gurgeh I used Amarillo hops about 150g in a 20l length.

When I transferred it to the fermentation vessel it looked like Dishwater


I wasn't expecting much from this brew but yesterday I reluctantly connected the cornie up to the pump......and Man o man what a taste. I was going to photograph it, but every time I pull a pint..I cant resist quaffing the Bhuggah

So, I quite fancy brewing something similar but more so...and I have come up with this likkle tinkah

Blaggers Brew (named after the method used for obtaining a not insignificant quantity of Cascade Hops)

20l brew length

4.5kg Pale malt (Maris otter)
0.5kg Lager malt
0.15kg Torrified wheat

Cascade hops 10g (60min) 6 IBU
Cascade hops 70g (15min) 24 IBU
Cascade hops 30g (steep 30mins)

Whirflock tab (15mins)
SO4 yeast

Before I commit liquor to HLT. Anybody got any advice experience of using Cascade hops...will I end up with alcoholic grapefruit juice?...Is that a bad thing?

Well, She's boiling away happily 30 mins into 60min boil. All went according to plan except the 90 min mash became 120mins..was busy elsewhere and forgot about it

Looks even more like dishwater than the last one

Piccies to follow

going to be a late one oggy, hope it turns out as well as the last

Oggy' Bar wrote:All went according to plan except the 90 min mash became 120mins..was busy elsewhere and forgot about it

Seems to be the day for longer-than-planned mashes

Hope the rest of the evening goes well - here's to cloudy, trub-saturated wort

Congratulations on the Amarillo brew. I finished off a barrel on Friday night that used 180g of Amarillo for 25.5 litres and that was 5%abv grapefruit juice, but I loved it!

I bottled 26litres of a 1048OG brew that had 140g of Cascade in it on 13/5/08, so in another four weeks will be able to report on it. I have used Cascade quite a bit, using it in several Townes Brewery IPAs and in a couple of Hunky Dorys, as well as several of my top of the head creations. A lovely hop that doesn't seem to give any harshness.

Hope your Blaggers turns out a real Bramah

HERE's THE PICCIES.

All in all the brewday went rather well...finished at midnight and cleaned up this evening) I really must start brewing earlier

Mashing in at 68c




The mash tun following the final batch sparge



The Dishwater.



The Boil begins.



Adding the 15min Hops.



Copper drained.


The Cooling wort



Aereated wort.



SO4 at the ready.



temperature bang on straight from CFC.



And so to bed...To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the Trub
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Finally, 7 hours later we have this.

Oggy' Bar wrote:And so to bed...To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the Trub

Right that's it, you're Bard !

Seriously though, great pics

Et Tu Brute... er RTD