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[DarloDave]

Havent brewed in a while, now got my own space to brew it was time to get cracking again. Im a little dubious about the state of my FV's, hopefully a good blast of peracetic will kill off anything lurking. Il buy a new FV for next time though, anyway heres the recipe, a simple quick drinking APA

Pale Malt 5 EBC 11 lbs. 0.4 oz 5000 grams 94.3%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 0 lbs. 10.5 oz 300 grams 5.7%

Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Amarillo Whole 9.5 % 60 mins 0 lbs. 0.4 oz 10 grams 5%
Simcoe Whole 13.0 % 60 mins 0 lbs. 0.4 oz 10 grams 5%
Simcoe Whole 13.0 % 10 mins 0 lbs. 1.1 oz 30 grams 15%
Amarillo Whole 9.5 % 10 mins 0 lbs. 1.1 oz 30 grams 15%
Amarillo Whole 9.5 % 0 mins 0 lbs. 1.1 oz 30 grams 15%
Simcoe Whole 13.0 % 0 mins 0 lbs. 1.1 oz 30 grams 15%
Amarillo Whole 9.5 % dry hop 30 grams
Simcoe Whole 13.0 % dry hop 30 grams


Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.052
Final Gravity: 1.012
Alcohol Content: 5.2% ABV
Total Liquor: 33.6 Litres
Mash Liquor: 13.3 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 46. EBU
Colour: 21 EBC


Didnt have many ingredients in, hence the simple recipe. Will be getting that sorted for next time.

[DarloDave]

Finished and cleaned up, easy brewday with nothing exciting happening. Cant wait to get this kegged and dry hopped!

[Jim]

Looks like you should have a nice strong hoppy bitter there, DD. Hope it turns out a good un.

[DarloDave]

Cheers jim, Fermenting this one in the garage where its a little cold - 13C during the night, so gonna be a long slow, but hopefull nice and clean ferment.

[mysterio]

Looks nice, my kinda beer. US-05 in this one?

[DarloDave]

Nah, had to use Nottingham, hope it will be able to handle such low temps.

This was mostly just a trial run to sort out how viable the place im brewing at, was. Felt good to be back into the swing of things.

[mysterio]

I prefer Nottingham anyway, works fine at low temps.

[196osh]

looks great man. Simcoe is my favorite hop.

Mysty answer yer email.

[DarloDave]

24 since pitching and there still isnt a full head of yeast. Its probably nothing to worry about, but I get so paranoid!

[DarloDave]

Kegged this today, had a couple of days where it got really warm, but thankfully it hasnt affected the beer, fined with gelatine, gonna add the dry hops when its cleared up, probably gonna have some hop haze now though. I can live with that though. It finished at 1010 and has a lovely hop flavour and aroma.

I was a little worried about gelatining after the dry hops as i've read that gelatine can strip out a lot of hop flavour? anybody noticed this or is it just one of those homebrew myths

[mysterio]

I think it definitely pulls out bitterness, not sure about aroma and flavour though.