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This is going to be the growing up the yeast for an IIPA I make in a couple of weeks, decided to go with US-05. Also wanted it to be quite an easy drinker so the IBUs are not high for what it is. Also Bobek is not exactly an american hop but I think they will go together well.

First time using Pellets as well with the Cascade. The Beersmith brewsheet makes me look extra organised...


Brew Type: All Grain Date: 13/04/2011
Style: American Pale Ale Brewer:
Batch Size: 31.00 L Assistant Brewer:
Boil Volume: 40.32 L Boil Time: 60 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %

Brewing Steps Check Time Step
13/04/2011 Clean and prepare equipment.
-- Measure ingredients, crush grains.
-- Prepare 49.18 L water for brewing
-- Prepare Ingredients for Mash
Amount Item Type
7.20 kg Lager Malt (3.9 EBC) Grain
0.30 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L (19.7 EBC) Grain
0.20 kg Munich Malt (17.7 EBC) Grain
0.15 kg Amber Malt (43.3 EBC) Grain

-- WARNING: Preheat Mash Tun - No equipment adjustments made!
2 min Mash Ingredients
Mash In: Add 23.55 L of water at 73.6 C
60 min - Hold mash at 67.8 C for 60 min
2 min Mash Out: Add 11.46 L of water at 93.5 C
10 min - Hold mash at 75.6 C for 10 min
-- Add first wort hops to boiler at start of sparge
Amount Item Type
70.00 gm Bobek [3.80 %] (60 min) (First Wort Hop) Hops

-- Sparge with 14.17 L of 75.6 C water.
-- Add water to achieve boil volume of 40.32 L
-- Estimated Pre-boil Gravity is: 1.048 SG with all grains/extracts added
Boil for 60 min Boil Ingredients
Boil Amount Item Type
15 min 50.00 gm Cascade [5.90 %] (15 min) Hops

-- Steep Hops
Amount Item Type
30.00 gm Bobek [3.80 %] (60 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops
50.00 gm Cascade [5.50 %] (60 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops

-- Cool wort to fermentation temperature
-- Add water (as needed) to achieve volume of 31.00 L
-- Siphon wort to primary fermenter and aerate wort.
13/04/2011 Measure Original Gravity: ________ (Estimate: 1.056 SG)
13/04/2011 Measure Batch Volume: ________ (Estimate: 31.00 L)

The Cascade when I took them out of the freezer smelled a bit mince, was I worried that was just a pellet thing. But now they are heating up they smell great.

Delivery from the Malt Miller yesterday


First brewday with the big shiney sexy thing.


FWH 70g of Bobek


Other hop additions, two flame out and the 15 min with the protofloc


Running off into the kettle



Close up, my phone camera is not the best at close ups.


Ended up with 31L @1052ish. Nice and clear.


All tucked up in the new fridge. 27L in the FV and a demijohn.

Not that anybody has posted but some have looked. This guy is down to 1012. Tastes and smells great.

The wort looks very nice, good and pale, should be a nice summer quaffer although the IBU is probably pretty high with those quantities, what does it come out at, I didn't see the figure?

cool. Can I get a better look at your mesh hopstopper please?

I LOVE Cascade and Bobek together. They are my favourite combo so far. That's going to be a superb beer. Nice to have a fridge too. Will really help the S05 to drop out.

It is getting crash chilled tonight, so the yeast should drop out nicely. The IBUs come.out about 30, so its not that high.

I will take a picture for you when i get in pdtnc.

Looking good! That mesh hop stopper is not going to stay that clean

Nice shiny btw

pdtnc wrote:cool. Can I get a better look at your mesh hopstopper please?

There you go mate. It is nothing special, the only thing thats a bit different, thats kind of hard to see is that it has 4 15mm drainage points because I brew so many hoppy beers, if I have drainage points that are either too small or not enough if I had one 15mm point then the drainage would be too slow if I had 400g of leaf hops in the bottom, the extra points mean the run off is really quick, and if I tilt the boiler the dead space is only 600ml.

Good to see someone using this hop combo.
I just used Bobek for the 1st time and love it.
I figured it would work well with cascade, glad to see I'm thinking in the right direction!

Thanks, I just wanted to see how you'd done the mesh, I need to make something myself.

pdtnc wrote:Thanks, I just wanted to see how you'd done the mesh, I need to make something myself.

Crimped it with a pair of plyers and cut a wee hole for the outlet. Not very high tech.