Munky APA - 28/03/09

[Bionicmunky]

Water was put on early this morning for this attemp:

Munky APA (Americanised Pissed Ape)
American Pale Ale

Type: All Grain
Date: 28/03/2009
Batch Size: 42.00 L
Brewer: Bionicmunky
Boil Size: 60.20 L Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 120 min Equipment: My Equipment
Brewhouse Efficiency: 79.00


Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
7.00 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) Grain 89.74 %
0.50 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (125.0 EBC) Grain 6.41 %
0.30 kg Cara-Pils/Dextrine (3.9 EBC) Grain 3.85 %
20.00 gm Amarillo [8.50 %] (120 min) (First Wort Hop) Hops 11.8 IBU
20.00 gm Cascade [5.50 %] (120 min) (First Wort Hop) Hops 7.6 IBU
20.00 gm Amarillo [8.50 %] (30 min) Hops 7.6 IBU
20.00 gm Cascade [5.50 %] (15 min) Hops 3.2 IBU
40.00 gm Cascade [5.50 %] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops - 80c 30 minutes
40.00 gm Amarillo [8.50 %] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops - 80c 30 minutes



Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.044 SG
Bitterness: 30.2 IBU
Est Color: 14.8 EBC

Will be mashing in shortly.

John

[edit1now]

Have a good one BM!

[KevP]

Sounds nice! Get the camera out for those gratuitous 'checking the OG' and associated shots

[Bionicmunky]

Mash on @ 67

[Bionicmunky]

Had to dump the carapils as it smelt a bit off, so upped the pale by .5kg

YOINKS!

It looks like a bit of recirc really does up the efficiency.

1040 into the boiler!!!!!!!!! oops!

thats over 94% into the boiler

[Bionicmunky]

FWH:


The boil with 2 elements (2x 3kw) run with one once boiling:

[Bionicmunky]

ANd here's the rest, apologies for the quality, they were taken using my phone.

Filling the new FV:


Trub and hops (lots of):


It says 1042 honest:


All tucked up in the newly insulated FV box:


Tidiying and cleaning all done.

Wierd day weather wise, sun, rain, sun, hail, sun, more hail and now a gale.

Cheers,

John

[edit1now]

Excellent. All went well

[SiHoltye]

Looks great BM. Sounds like a tasty brew coming up

[mixbrewery]

Loads of shiney on display, luv it!
Glad you had a good brewday J.

[Bionicmunky]

Thanks for the comments guys.

It's down to 1010 as of 2pm today. The sample tasted smooth with grapefruity, passion fruit notes. Really really nice. I think I might of found a house spring/summer ale. Typical it uses the expensive hops

I'll try a bottle a bit for LAB

J

[Bionicmunky]

Holding steady at 1010, so have dropped the temp to 15c and will hopefully keg this on day 6 (fri) as it is already dropping clear.

Still tasting awesome too! deffo my best brew so far.

J

[Carpking]

That looks great. Two of my favorite hops and a nice looking recipe. What yeast went in?
Let us know how good it is when you're finally drinking the stuff.
A cascade pale ale was on my 'to do' list so i may blatently steal your recipe.

[Bionicmunky]

I used 1x S04 & 1x Nottingham in the end in the same FV

[Bionicmunky]

Now wrapped up in 2 cornies and half a 9L cornie (they had babies last week)