Hoppy APA Brewday

[Rhodesy]

After taking delivery of a BM20 this week I thought it would be rude not to. First impressions are as I hoped and I love it. Hit both my preboil & post boil targets. I did in my haste forget to take pics of cooling and the hop rocket (0 min steep additions).

I used the no sparge method which I enjoyed and managed to hit my target bang on, not bad for a first go. Cleaning was nice, quick and simple. Delighted with this system and plan to have another brew day tomorrow to get the festive stocks as they should be.


Style: American Pale Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (30.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 31.00 l
Post Boil Volume: 27.00 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 22.00 l
Bottling Volume: 22.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.054 SG
Estimated Color: 5.5 EBC
Estimated IBU: 47.5 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 85.1 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
5.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (2.5 EBC) Grain 1 95.0 %
0.27 kg Carared (10.0 EBC) Grain 2 5.0 %
10.00 g El Dorado [15.80 %] - First Wort 60.0 mi Hop 3 16.0 IBUs
20.00 g El Dorado [15.80 %] - Boil 12.0 min Hop 4 12.2 IBUs
10.00 g Ahtanum [6.00 %] - Boil 12.0 min Hop 5 2.3 IBUs
10.00 g Wai-Iti [3.00 %] - Boil 12.0 min Hop 6 1.3 IBUs
30.00 g Ahtanum [6.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 30.0 Hop 7 6.4 IBUs
30.00 g Wai-Iti [3.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 30.0 Hop 8 3.2 IBUs
25.00 g Ahtanum [6.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 0.0 Hop 9 0.0 IBUs
25.00 g El Dorado [15.80 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 0 Hop 10 0.0 IBUs
25.00 g Wai-Iti [3.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 0.0 Hop 11 0.0 IBUs
10.00 g El Dorado [15.80 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 3 Hop 12 6.1 IBUs
1.0 pkg San Diego Super Yeast (White Labs #WLP09 Yeast 13 -
35.00 g El Dorado [15.80 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days Hop 14 0.0 IBUs
35.00 g Ahtanum [6.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 15 0.0 IBUs
35.00 g Wai-Iti [3.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 16 0.0 IBUs


Mash Schedule: Braumeister 4 step light body 76% efficiency
Total Grain Weight: 5.27 kg
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
add malt pipe Add 34.22 l of water and heat to 40.0 C 40.0 C 0 min
Protein Mode Heat to 52.0 C over 5 min 52.0 C 20 min
Maltose mode Heat to 63.0 C over 5 min 63.0 C 40 min
Saccharification Add -0.00 l of water and heat to 70.0 C 70.0 C 50 min
Mash Out Add -0.00 l of water and heat to 76.0 C 76.0 C 15 min

Dough In temp reached



Nice Shiny Pot



Grain shot



Malt Pipe in



The hood working as a grain funnel



Grain nice and cleanly added



Doughed in



Pump beginning to recirculate



Full no spare volume added



Mashout with lovely clear wort



Boiling temp with FWH added



Stainless hood in place to get nice rolling boil



Boil Finished



Steeping hops added for 30 mins



The leftovers



Tucked away nicely

[laithclark]

Very jealous of the BM, it's on my next big brewing purchase list! And a hop rocket too

Do you use the hop rocket with a plate chiller en route to the FV?

[Rhodesy]

Yeah I use the Hop rocket followed by plate chiller to lock that aroma in. I let them steep for a while prior to pumping to open the flowers in the rocket. The main PITA is disconnecting it all trying not to spill everything all over the place.

I usually ferment in a Conical so I can then dump trub but building up festive stocks and brewing again today. Done an overnight mash, just waiting on the wife coming home to take over parental duties and I can crack on with the boil.