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Recipe: NZ Pacifica Single Hop Pale Ale
Style: American Pale Ale

Batch Size: 26.00 l
Boil Size: 37.76 l
Estimated OG: 1.047 SG
Estimated FG: 1.013 SG
Estimated ABV: 4.4 %
Estimated Color: 11.3 EBC
Estimated IBU: 36.7 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 76.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Grainbill
4.382 kg Pale Malt, Flagon (5.7 EBC) Grain 85.0 %
0.412 kg Munich Malt (17.7 EBC) Grain 8.0 %
0.258 kg Pale Crystal Malt (60.0 EBC) Grain 5.0 %
0.103 kg Aromatic Malt (50.0 EBC) Grain 2.0 %

Hops
45.00 g Pacifica [6.20 %] - FWH 60.0 min Hop 32.0 IBUs
5.00 g Pacifica [6.20 %] - Boil 13.0 min Hop 0.9 IBUs
10.00 g Pacifica [6.20 %] - Boil 7.0 min Hop 1.3 IBUs
15.00 g Pacifica [6.20 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 20. Hop 2.5 IBUs
25.00 g Pacifica [6.20 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 0.0 IBUs

Yeast
British Ale Yeast (Mangrove Jack's #M07) Yeast - Yeast Cake from BIAB#7

Mash Schedule: BIAB, Medium Body (67C), 12 hour overnight mash.

Hops additions, 25g left for the dry hop.



1.041 pre-boil gravity.



Racked BIAB#7 (Porter) to a carboy and removed two cups of the yeast cake, this was very thick and I couldn't see any difference between break/trub/yeast, but hopefully there's a large amount of yeast in there.



1.047 OG



Dropped 26L into the fermenter then aerated with an aquarium pump for twenty minutes before pitching the yeast at 1400. Air-lock started bubbling around 2130.

Yesterday I cooled this down to 0C then racked 19L to a keg and and nine 500ml bottles. ~1 teaspoon of corn sugar in each bottle and force carbonated the keg to 2.5 vols. FG 1.009 so that makes it 5.0%. Quite a chill haze on it so I'm hoping it'll become clearer at normal serving temperature.

Taste from the fermenter was good, nice sweetness to it, good hop flavour and slight hop aroma. I think it could easily support more bitterness (maybe use a higher AA bittering hop) and the dry hop could easily have been doubled.

Interesting brew! Possibly the sweetness will reduce as it matures and give you a better balance - you never know.

The sweetness/bitterness balance isn't bad as it is, but the goal was a session IPA or hoppy APA so I think I could raise the IBUs quite a bit.

Opened a bottle yesterday, the carbonation has a way to go but I really understand the "orange marmalade" description of the hops and I'm very happy with this so far.