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The second brew of today's Double Brewday A serious Hoppy pretty large beer!

Imperial Amarillo Wheat

Fermentables:
Munich Malt 3160g 46.2%
Wheat Malt 2680g 39.1%
Lager Malt 665g 9.8%
Caramalt 335g 4.9%

Hops:
Amarillo @ 60 mins - 250g (First Wort Hops)
Amarillo @ 15 mins - 100g
Amarillo @ 0 mins - 100g (Flameout Steep for 20mins)
Amarillo 80g (To Dry Hop)

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.066 - I actually got 1.059 ish
Final Gravity: 1.016
Alcohol Content: 6.6% ABV
Total Liquor: 35.1 Litres
Mash Liquor: 17.1 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 244 EBU - Bitterness surprisingly nice tasting the unfermented wort!
Colour: 26 EBC - The Colour is lovely

Mashed for 90mins @ 66c, Boiled for 60mins, took an age to cool with loads of stirring!

Quite a Full bucket of malt:

FWH, 250g of Amarillo:

Hops in the copper, there is some wort underneath!:

100g at 15mins left to boil:

Hop Stew, the spoon just stands up in it there are so many hops in the copper:

There is a IC in there somewhere:

About 5 points low on my target, I was half expecting this with such a large amount of Munich Malt coupled with the massive amount of Hops in addition to the compensated 5 Litres of losses guestimate!:

The Twins:


US-05 dry sprinkled at 23c
I'm guessing the US-05 will finish lower than predicted so the ABV will hopefully be around that predicted.

Amarillo is perhaps my favourite hop..............now when you say seriously hoppy................you're not kidding. Over half a kilo of hops. That' going to be one flavoursome beer

WOW you seem to be brewing like something demented these days
Like the sound of this brew, i love hoppy beers, we`ll have to have a swap sometime soon.

On the boil vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x__Nh0uXr88 I had to watch this for a while until it settled down as it looked like it wanted to escape.

Love amarillo

Sounds good. I prob would have gone with the 250g at flame out. Be interested to hear how it turns out. How long you thinking on conditioning this one?

Love the video to. Thats a hell of a vigorous boil. You'll get a pretty decent extraction out of those badboys

Interesting recipe - you'll certainly have a *lot* of flavour there...

I definitely want to do a swap with you on this one pdtnc! Looks awesome! Never seen that amount of FWH - 244 IBU!!!!!!! Love it!

bloomin' good job I made a full batch if its going to be swapped this much!

Pics added now

Excellent! That's an "out there" beer for sure.......lovely pics too.

Those hops will knock your socks off... Im a sucker for american hops though

Out there, it is, Next up sooner or later will be 400g of First Gold in a Pale malt Imperial IPA

I think this beer will knock more than my sock off, probably pucker my mouth like I'm chewing a wasp!

This FV is just trying to creep out of the bucket today!

Looks superb.

Hydro sample says lots of sugars still to be eaten, but the aroma and taste are pure fruity and actually rather nice

why not put more late hops and less 90 min hops to get a bigger hop effect in the beer?