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AG#45 - Trashy Blonde (photos added)

Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:40 pm
by WishboneBrewery
This is an attempt at Brewdog's Trashy Blonde and the recipe started life as Sara Carter's (Scarer) http://www.brewdog.com/trashy_blonde
This will be my first experience of Pellet hops with the Motueka, I'm going to ferment it with Safale us-05 and Mashing at 68c (though I aimed for 69c, even after a pre-heat, empty and refill of the Mash tun I still lost almost 5c from 83c in the HLT), Mash for a minimum of 60mins.
I may dry hop this with 13g of Ahtanum in the fermenter... to be decided.

Trashy Blonde

Fermentables:
Pale Malt - 70%
Caramalt - 10%
Munich Malt - 10%
Wheat Malt - 10%

Hops:
Ahtanum Whole @ 60 mins - 8g (FWH)
Motueka (B Saaz) Pellet @ 60 mins - 8g (FWH)
Simcoe Whole @ 60 mins - 8g (FWH)
Motueka (B Saaz) Pellet 6.8 % 10 mins - 22g
Simcoe Whole @ 10 mins - 23g
Ahtanum Whole @ 10 mins - 22g
Simcoe Whole @ 0 mins - 16g (80c Steep for 20-30mins)
Ahtanum Whole @ 0 mins - 16g (80c Steep for 20-30mins)
Motueka (B Saaz) Pellet @ 0 mins - 16g (80c Steep for 20-30mins)

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.041
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 4% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.3 Litres
Mash Liquor: 9.5 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 80 %
Bitterness: 44 EBU
Colour: 11 EBC

The Malts and liquor treatment salts:
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Mash Tun wrapped up:
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Todays Kiwi & Yank hops:
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Leaf and pellet hops:
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80c Steep hops going in:
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Running to fermenter, the clearest wort I've made for a long while, the break material just dropped like a stone:
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Looks like about 1040, Refractometer said 11.75 Brix which is about 1045 bit high but I'm not going to worry about it:
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I'll clean the copper tomorrow, there's beer to be drunk....

Re: AG#45 - Trashy Blonde (photos added)

Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:20 pm
by floydmeddler
Looks good man! Keep us posted.

Re: AG#45 - Trashy Blonde (photos added)

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:59 am
by haz66
That sounds bloody nice, well done.
I wouldn`t mind getting a brew done while i`m off work but i need to get the electric sorted first, got the
cable just need to get hold of some decent plugs and sockets.

Re: AG#45 - Trashy Blonde (photos added)

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:31 am
by WishboneBrewery
I'm hoping to sneak a Belgian brewday in too this week, I'm using 800ml of the wort from this to start off a Tube of WLP550 Belgian Ale yeast.

Re: AG#45 - Trashy Blonde (photos added)

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:42 am
by pantsmachine
Nice recipe, i also like the forward planning with the wort syphon. :)

Re: AG#45 - Trashy Blonde (photos added)

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:40 am
by WishboneBrewery
pantsmachine wrote:Nice recipe, i also like the forward planning with the wort syphon. :)
Wort Syphon?

Re: AG#45 - Trashy Blonde (photos added)

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:40 pm
by WishboneBrewery
This is at about 1008 now, so I've Dry Hopped it with:
15g Ahtanum
10g Motueka
10g Simcoe
I'll leave it for a minimum of 3 days then bottle.

Re: AG#45 - Trashy Blonde (photos added)

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:55 pm
by WishboneBrewery
Bottled this tonight after 6 days on the hops, tastes lovely out of the fermenter, I'm really glad I dry hopped it think its going to be a cracker :)

Re: AG#45 - Trashy Blonde (photos added)

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:29 pm
by adm
That looks really good. I do like a Trashy Blonde....

Re: AG#45 - Trashy Blonde (photos added)

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:36 pm
by WishboneBrewery
adm wrote:That looks really good. I do like a Trashy Blonde....
On cask its lovely, bottled is a bit too sharp or rough.

Google Image search of Trashy Blonde doesn't just bring up Brewdog! :D

Re: AG#45 - Trashy Blonde (photos added)

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:23 pm
by WishboneBrewery
5 days of being bottled, bit rough around the edges but nice bitterness and flavour. :)