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First Beer I have brewed in quite a while. The plug for my pump is broken. This leads to me lifting up 45kg of hot wort. Great.


Top Of The Moon IPA
Brew Type: All Grain Date: 19/01/2011
Style: American IPA Brewer:
Batch Size: 27.00 L Assistant Brewer:
Boil Volume: 37.36 L Boil Time: 60 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %

Grist
3.00 kg Lager Malt (3.9 EBC) Grain
2.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain
0.40 kg Munich Malt (17.7 EBC) Grain
0.30 kg Amber Malt (90.0 EBC) Grain
0.30 kg Wheat Malt, Bel (3.9 EBC) Grain
0.25 kg Rye Malt (9.3 EBC) Grain
0.20 kg Crystal Malt (108.4 EBC) Grain

Boil Hops
15 min 50.00 gm Williamette [6.70 %] (15 min) Hops
15 min 35.00 gm Apollo [19.50 %] (15 min) Hops
10 min 35.00 gm Summit [14.50 %] (10 min) Hops

-- Steep Hops
Amount Item Type
35.00 gm Apollo [19.50 %] (60 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops
35.00 gm Summit [14.50 %] (60 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops
50.00 gm Williamette [6.70 %] (50 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops

Dry Hops
30.00 gm Apollo [19.50 %] (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops
30.00 gm Summit [14.50 %] (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops

OG:1060 IBUs: 51.7


Going pretty good. Got 40L of wort into the kettle @1049

I used to lift 10 gallons of hot wort every week before I got a pump, it's what made me the man I am today

Should be a good one, very interesting hop combo

mysterio wrote:I used to lift 10 gallons of hot wort every week before I got a pump, it's what made me the man I am today

Should be a good one, very interesting hop combo

Hopefully not a scalded/scarred one...

The recipe looks good, I see why you have given it that name... I gave my most recent brw a similarly (loosely) related name - It was a Vienna lager and the brewday went smoothly ( Ifinished ahead of the time I allowed myself) so I called it 'Rapid Wien' which is also the name of a local Association football club...

I have a cunning 'pun' in mind for my next brew (an Oktoberfest) too.... :

Cheers!

Guy

mysterio wrote:I used to lift 10 gallons of hot wort every week before I got a pump, it's what made me the man I am today

Should be a good one, very interesting hop combo

I am not the man you are geoff. Did you post up those pictures?

Yeah, the Apollo smelled superb. Can't wait to try it.

Ahh picture goodness.


Grist, mostly covered by the Rye Malt.


Run off.


Hoppy goodnesss, mmmmm.


Hot break



Chilling down and a looot of gunk.

Ended up with 29L @ 1053. Would have boiled down a bit but one of my elements packed it in half way through the boil,

Glad to be back at it though.

the recipe looks a lot like my malt bills over the last few brews, using up odds and ends... usually turn out to be great

Just tried this, its down to 1017 it should get down to 1012-13.

The malt backbone is great, but the hops are a bit odd.

don't worry. apollo and summit are very strange when young... with a few weeks conditioning it will fruit up nicely.

Looks great and a good name!

What yeast did you use?

I used 2x US-05. Would have used WLP001, as I like it a bit better, but I had no spraymalt for the starter.

I tend to think US-05 squeezes out an extra point or two of attenuation.

What are the hops like ? Onion ?

Yeah Oniony sort of garlic savoury sort of thing, would be a decent way of describing it. Its not something I have experienced in a hop before, they certainly did not smell like that out of the pack.

Hope they improve....

Yeah the US-05 does finish a wee bit drier.

How did this turn out?

Dry hopped one is infected. Non dry hopped one is average, wont be using summit again.