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Rye Hoppy Ale
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 12:06 am
by simple one
Put on a mash tonight for a pale malt and crystal rye ale.
Gone for an overnight mash.... Yes start telling me what issues I will get, just thought about cropping down on the time spent on the brewday.
Malt:
3200g Pale
500g Crystal Rye
Looking for 23L at around 1.034/6
I am gonna hop the crap out of this, but not decided on what with. Pictures to follow.
Re: Rye Hoppy Ale
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 6:54 am
by cerbera84
Interested to see how the overnight mash turns out, have been thinking about it recently. Wasn't sure what stage it was best to leave it at:
1) Mash in, leave overnight then sparge in the morning?
2) Mash in with a full volume, leave overnight?
3) Mash, sparge then drain to boil kettle and boil the next day?
Re: Rye Hoppy Ale
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:00 am
by WalesAles
Simple one,
You might find some answers in this thread.......
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75805
WA
Re: Rye Hoppy Ale
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 10:53 am
by simple one
Interesting read Wales. With such a high proportion of crystal I was kind of hedging my bets on the thinning of the body not being an issue. However didn't think about the lactic side of things.
Tasting it this morning it seemed fine. However have to wait for the finished beer to see if there is any differences.
Re: Rye Hoppy Ale
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 1:27 pm
by simple one
Re: Rye Hoppy Ale
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 1:35 pm
by simple one
Went for 20g of Cascade (flower) at 60mins and 50g of Simcoe and 50g of Chinook pellets at 5 mins. I have a slack hand full left for dry hopping too.
Ended up getting 22.5L at 1.040, but as I didn't want to alter the IBUs or colour I stayed away from liquoring back.
Really difficult to get the wort down to pitching temperatures. Got there though and its gassing away at 17C.
Re: Rye Hoppy Ale
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:24 pm
by Maldon John
Looking good, What yeast are you using on this?
Re: Rye Hoppy Ale
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:40 pm
by simple one
Ah, John, forgot that.... S05. I couldn't be bothered with liquid on this one. Wanted something clean.
Re: Rye Hoppy Ale
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2016 8:12 pm
by simple one
Two weeks in and I had a sniff. Hoppy, very hoppy. Hmmmm.....
What the hell in went 50g of dry hops. I predict hazes!
Dropped the temperature down to 17C.
Re: Rye Hoppy Ale
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 6:55 pm
by leedsbrew
cant fall off with those hops! sounds like a winner!
Re: Rye Hoppy Ale
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:03 pm
by simple one
Cheers Leeds!
Just got this out of the secondary.... which was a good call for dry hopping with pellets. Lots of matter and yeast has dropped.
8 bottles and a conry packaged. Had a little sample, and pretty good, maybe great. BUT the bitterness doesn't lend its self to easy drinking.
Hope a bit of conditioning makes it less hoppy/bitter. Lets see.
