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sparge water heating up to 80oc while i mash




mash tun after 90mins topped up with 80oc water




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




20grams of citra hops 90min additions




coming to the boil hops in




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




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




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




FILTH shot!





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

Looks lovely!

There's certainly lots of Citra activity going on here at the moment....

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.

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?

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

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

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