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ORBY v1.2 - A Tweak & Re-brew of this viewtopic.php?f=24&t=29431 (Over-Run By Yanks) a Hoppy AmeriZealand Pale

Fermentables:
Lager Malt - 2200g - 45%
Wheat Malt - 2200g - 45%
Munich Malt - 390g - 8%
Crystal Malt - 98g - 2%

Hops:
Pacific Gem @ 60 mins - 12g (First Wort Hop)
Nelson Sauvin @ 15 mins - 30g
Cascade @ 15 mins - 20g
Centennial @ 15 mins - 30g
Nelson Sauvin @ 0 mins - 46g (80c Steep for 30mins)
Cascade @ 0 mins - 30g (80c Steep for 30mins)
Centennial @ 0 mins - 30g (80c Steep for 30mins)

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.048
Final Gravity: 1.011
Alcohol Content: 4.8% ABV
Total Liquor: 33.2 Litres
Mash Liquor: 12.2 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 62 EBU
Colour: 11 EBC

90minute Mash @ 66c followed by a 60minute Boil.
Yeast is Safale US-05 thick yeast skimmed from my previous brew

Brewsheet & Strike heat on phone:

The malts, Temp, & water treatments for 'Dry Pale Ale':

Hops weighed out, a total of 198g:

FWH Pacific Gem hops & Old lager yeast as Nutrient:

Thought I'd check my pH for a change, near as damn it:

Avoiding the dreaded, Shock Horror!, Hot Side Aeration my arse bull:

It actually managed to escape the copper just a little:

15min hops going into a really good rolling boil:

Believe me, this is 1052, 4 points above my target:

Just added some fresh wort to the skimmed yeast ready to pitch:

FV with a good bit of aeration:

The Soon to be 'Hop Compost':

Pictures on T.watter - https://twitter.com/pdtnc

I managed a 93.7% Mash Efficiency, I think its time to change the settings in BeerEngine from 75% to 85% or more!

Nice

Should be an interesting beer. Lots of wheat in there

I've got lots of wheat! so rather than all lager malt I went 50-50, should be good for head too.

Thats a lot of hops

Should be great.

Looking good Ade. Your being quite prolific of late!

I'm struggling to find time to brew and make brewery alterations simultaneously at the moment cos of work, so have decided to take a break and get brewery MKII up and running instead!

93.7% mash efficiency! might have to liquor back at the end.

Just slowly running off to fermenter, re-pitched thick US-05 yeast... hopefully take off like a rocket

Bottled this tonight, tastes bloody good right out of the fermenter... fingers crossed this will surpass the excellence that was the first version and in 2 weeks it will be smooth drinking and I'll be wishing I made more than 5 gallon!

Great looking brew there!

Any tips for mash efficiency? e.g. liquor:grist ratio, batch sparge? I'm not doing to well with my numbers at the moment.

Hope it turns out well!

Well my Malts are pretty fresh and I'm pretty sure its down to treating the water correctly.

What do the NZ hops taste like? I don't think I've ever had them before.
Good looking brew!

Musky, cat pi55, nice full chalky bitterness

bosium wrote:What do the NZ hops taste like? I don't think I've ever had them before.
Good looking brew!

1 week bottle taster, smells very cascady, nice level of carbonation, Tastes a bit green yet but has the Nelson Sauvin bitterness already Mmmm

One more week

The Almost 2 week taster bottle/s
This is coming into form now and is got a nice bitter edge, loads of fruit, maybe 1 more week

Hey pdtnc,

congrats on your award for this brew! Gonna have a go at it myself, but i have no wheat so will use MO and a little cryistal (how the f do you spell that word...i tried 6 variations and still it dont look rite!) prob about 3% chrystal(arrgghh!!) maybe some Muncih too. Whadaya think?

Got no Pacifc Gem but have some high alpha Simco, what ibu did you get from your bittering hops?(90min hopS)

Will prob use a pck of SO5.

Ta for any tips!

Steve