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Highside APA
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:53 pm
by stevezx7r
Just about to kick off a hoppy lil number. I'm using amarillo only in this one along with MO grain plus around 150g TW and will use us05 yeast. I've ony used this yeast once for one of my last brews where I made two similar beers - one with s04 the other with us05 - the difference is noticable. The american yeast doesn't seem to have the same sort of fruitiness which the 04 has so it suited my style very well.
Anyway, i'll take pics as I go today as I haven't done that for a while.
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:00 pm
by MightyMouth
Good luck, look forward to the piccy's
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:20 pm
by stevezx7r
Cheers MM, just doughed in but trying to decide if I want to do a 90 min mash or keep it at 60...
Any thoughts, anyone?
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:48 pm
by MightyMouth
How about 75?
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 4:03 pm
by bitter_dave
stevezx7r wrote:Cheers MM, just doughed in but trying to decide if I want to do a 90 min mash or keep it at 60...
Any thoughts, anyone?
I'd go with 60 mins personally; I've never noticed much difference in the resulting beer compared with 90 mins, and it is nice to shave a bit of time off the brew day.
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 5:36 pm
by russt1969
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 6:21 pm
by stevezx7r
Into the last few mins of the boil, just put the IC and Irish moss in. Not sure how long the mash was as I got, er, sidetracked (blame the missus
).
Strange thing is I've just taken an adjusted gravity reading and it's WAY higher than I planned for at 1057 ! This is going to end up in the high 5% ABV and not the low 4 as I planned. I did adjust my efficiency to 65 % thinking that's what I tend to get but it's obviously a lot higher than that. Anyway, will post pics later.
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:51 pm
by Redbloke
Sounds like it went OK Steve, any chance of the recipe?, looks a good 'un.
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:04 pm
by Buzz
Glad it went well, look forward to the pics
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 9:56 am
by stevezx7r
Redbloke wrote:Sounds like it went OK Steve, any chance of the recipe?, looks a good 'un.
No probs, I did post the recipe in the recipe section, but, as with most of my brews I ended up changing things.
Highside
5kg Marris Otter
50g Amarillo 8%AA (boiled for somewhere between 60 - 90 mins)
50g Amarillo 8%AA Added once wort was at 80C and left for 30 mins
Irish Moss in at last 10 mins
IC in at last 10 mins
US05 yeast, which now has a nice krausen on top, fermenting at 22C
Will post pics in a little bit.
Ok, here's the pics. Once again, sorry for the quality but it's from my phone.
A pic of my "brewery" aka the kitchen. A couple of boilers.
The holding tank for my sparge water.
Mash on
Sparging the grains
Missed the photo of bringing to the boil so here's a shot of the boiler with the IC
A good Krausen after only a few hours, this is with a dry pitched us05 too.
A close-up
Thanks !
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 11:00 am
by Horden Hillbilly
Looks like it went ok for you steve, nice one!
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 12:37 pm
by Vossy1
Looking good
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:06 am
by SiHoltye
Looks good, how's it drinking/drunk?
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:08 pm
by flytact
Yes! How's it drinking. Grapefruit all over?
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:02 pm
by jonnyv
If Steve's signature is anything to go by, he's on holiday until 18th
The Pistonbroke Brewery Presents
CURRENTLY ON HOLIDAY FROM 04.08.08 TILL 18.08.08.