AG 18 citra pale ale 30/1/2011

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alfie09

AG 18 citra pale ale 30/1/2011

Post by alfie09 » Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:09 pm

sparge water heating up to 80oc while i mash

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mash tun after 90mins topped up with 80oc water

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first runnings nice and clear after recirculating first 4 litres of wort

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20grams of citra hops 90min additions

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coming to the boil hops in

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cooling wort down after 90mins with water at 2oc cold up here today

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very good cold break today it actually started coming up above the beer line!

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run off after cooling to 16oc wow! only took half an hour!

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FILTH shot!

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ended up with 1050SG and 19 litres bang on to what i wanted

recipe was

4000 grams pale malt (warminsters floor malted)
300 grams wheat malt

and 1 whole packet of citra used a 90min 15min 5min and 30grams flame out at 80oc for 30minutes
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adm

Re: AG 18 citra pale ale 30/1/2011

Post by adm » Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:23 pm

Looks lovely!

There's certainly lots of Citra activity going on here at the moment....
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Re: AG 18 citra pale ale 30/1/2011

Post by Eric » Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:17 pm

It does look lovely and I've not used Citra yet.
Clear wort after 4 litres? I can't get clear wort until about the 20th litre and it's nice to see what I still aim for.
Very nice.
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Re: AG 18 citra pale ale 30/1/2011

Post by Naich » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:39 pm

Nice one! I've got my Citra sitting in the fridge, ready for the next brew. Any chance of you posting details of your recipe?
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Re: AG 18 citra pale ale 30/1/2011

Post by alfie09 » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:17 pm

easy one recipe

4000grams pale
300grams wheat malt

citra 90mins 20grams
citra 15mins 30grams
citra 10mins 20grams
citra 5mins 20grams
10grams dry hopped for 4 days

19 litres yeast nottingham
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Re: AG 18 citra pale ale 30/1/2011

Post by Lewy » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:54 pm

Hi Alfie - I brewed 4kg Pale +single hop on Saturday. Just wondering - the 300g wheat malt, is that to give head retention? Or extra taste dimension? I'm still working out these things...
Cheers,
Lewy
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Re: AG 18 citra pale ale 30/1/2011

Post by alfie09 » Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:57 pm

new to all this my self. i think it adds to head retention to be honest i just looked through a book at a few IPA recipes with single hops and alot came up with pale malt and wheat malt toghether so thats what i went with lol. can someone explain what wheat malt adds to beer other than hear retention? someone suggest to me a "mother of earth taste very earthy " ? either that or i was so pissed i missed what they said which is very likely :roll:
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