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Well after an early morning attack at the gym I'm getting this on the go as I type!


gredient Amount % MCU When
UK Pale Ale Malt 4.351 kg 90.0 % 4.5 In Mash/Steeped
German CaraMunich III 0.242 kg 5.0 % 4.8 In Mash/Steeped
UK Wheat Malt 0.242 kg 5.0 % 0.2 In Mash/Steeped


Hops
Variety Alpha Amount IBU Form When
US Citra 13.4 % 10 g 14.0 Loose Whole Hops First Wort Hopped
US Citra 13.4 % 15 g 10.4 Loose Whole Hops 15 Min From End
US Citra 13.4 % 15 g 7.6 Loose Whole Hops 10 Min From End
US Citra 13.4 % 15 g 0.0 Loose Whole Hops At turn off


Yeast
DCL US-05 (formerly US-56) SafAle


Based on Adm's 42 citra pale (as the hops were kindly donated by himself!) Got some CaraMunich III from TMM so thought I'd bash it in here!

More to come!

Yum! Looking forward to some more feedback on the Citra hops.

Now this is one I'd like to try ....

Well the boil is on! 1st use of the solar projects pump today! Great little piece of kit!

Just going to rack my Steam beer into secondary then maybe a dishwasher load of bottles for tomorrows Kolsch bottling session befor ethe 15 min addition!

BTW, these citra hops are 100% tropical fruit! The smell from the bag as I opened them was awesome!

I have just had a sample of my Citra brew, it has been in the fv for a week. Gravity is down to 1018, it is pure fruit salad,grapefruit and passion fruit, I could smell it as soon as I opened the fridge door! Looking good this one I will be really interested how the flavour develops on this one.

Rob

well according to BeerAlchemy I managed a mash efficiency of 93.9% by using the little pump t recirculate the mash! It's currently recirculation the wort as it cools to form a whirlpool for the IC!

I've got some Pellets to get a brew on sooner or later... Hope its a good one!

and... I could do with getting back on the weights!

pdtnc wrote:I've got some Pellets to get a brew on sooner or later... Hope its a good one!

Have you got a mesh hop stopper? cos if not I'd definitely suggest adding some leaf in there as well! I've had a load of break material come through the filter, so I'm leaving the wort to stand in the FV over night, then tomorrow morning I'm gonna syphon it into another FV and then pitch the S-05!

pdtnc wrote: I could do with getting back on the weights

I played rugby for the 1st time in almost a year yesterday and realised how out of shape I am! I usually play either Hooker, flanker or at a push Prop, and I got floored by a centre ! Things had to change, so off to the pain room today!

I have taken a few pics but I'm gonna post them tomorrow as I'm knackered!

Night John boy!:D

Sounds like a great beer. Pellets can be a bastard though...you either need a hopstopper with big holes to let the crud through into the FV (then not worry about it), or a fine mesh to keep it out (but I always worry about blockage with those). I think your "let it sit in the the FV then decant" is probably the best approach.

On the rugby, I used to play hooker myself. For the pain room today, I did 40 pretty hilly miles on my shiny new road bike. Feck me. My arse is still sore.

Grist


Plus hops


All a bit Heath Robinson


Recirculating


Still recirculating


Second batch sparge


Hop additions! These Citra pellets smelt awesome! Tropical fruit juice all the way!


This is what I came down to this morning!


about 1.049 at 20oC so should get down to 1.012 to give 4.9% ABV

I got a 100g of Citra from friend o mine, was wondering - whats your take on brewing light lager with em - something thats light on body, about 4.5% abv and has bit of bittering and lots of aroma from Citra?

whats your take?

Andris wrote:I got a 100g of Citra from friend o mine, was wondering - whats your take on brewing light lager with em - something thats light on body, about 4.5% abv and has bit of bittering and lots of aroma from Citra?

whats your take?

ey up mate, didnt see this sorry1 I would think that citra are maybee a bit strong for lager! saying that I like quite nobel hops in my lagers! I'd say give it a go and let us know how you get on!

I've found the citra hops to have a great tropical fruit flavour and aroma! I racked this one into secondary this am and added an oZ of citra dry hops! I'm going to leave it a week, gas it in a corni and then bottle as I need the corni space for the mild thats ready to keg and the Steam beer that is cold conditioning is about ready as well! Really need to get more kegs!

Great stuff! Looking forward to getting my own Citra beer brewed this week..

everyone's on the citra vibe at the moment!
gonna get me some too!

hope it works out leedsbrew. I can smell the tropical fruit from here!