AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

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AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by Monkeybrew » Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:08 am

I've been wanting to brew something with some NZ hops for a while, so I decided to brew a very pale APA style brew that should be good for late spring/early summer.

I was aiming for 23L @1.048, but ended up just short with 22.5L, so quite happy with that, as I wasn't totally sure how much wort the hops would absorb.

I have used some low colour Maris Otter Malt for the first time, as I wanted to keep things as pale as possible. I have also used a fair percentage of Caramalt, because I have noticed that Brewdog do this with quite a lot of their hoppy pale ales, and I assume that it helps balance the hops without adding too much flavour and colour.

I missed my mash temp by 1C, so it started at 65C instead of 66C and the mash seemed to be draining really slowly when sparging, but this wasn't a bad thing as my mash efficiency was up to 82%, so all good.

I rehydrated 10g of Mangrove Jacks M44 West Coast yeast in 100ml of water @32C for 15mins and then brought it's temperature down gradually to 21C, by adding the contents of my trial jar back into the mix. This was then all pitched into the my FV which was also at 21C at 11pm tonight.

Fingers crossed that this will be bubbling away within 24 hours :)


Fool's Pale Ale
New Zealand Pale Ale

Brew Date - 01/04/18

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 22.5
Total Grain (kg): 4.705
Total Hops (g): 152.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.048 (°P): 11.9
Final Gravity (FG): 1.012 (°P): 3.1
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 4.78 %
Colour (SRM): 4.5 (EBC): 8.9
Bitterness (IBU): 40.3 (Tinseth)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 73
Mash Efficiency (%): 82
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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4.000 kg Low Colour Maris Otter Malt (85%)
0.470 kg Caramalt (10%)
0.235 kg Dingemans Wheat Malt (5%)

Hop Bill
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12.0 g Magnum Leaf (13.2% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (0.5 g/L)

15.0 g NZ Cascade Leaf (9.4% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)
15.0 g NZ Wai-iti Leaf (4% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)

15.0 g NZ Cascade Leaf (9.4% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)
15.0 g NZ Wai-iti Leaf (4% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)

15.0 g NZ Cascade Leaf (9.4% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)
15.0 g NZ Wai-iti Leaf (4% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)

25.0 g NZ Cascade Leaf (9.4% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (1.1 g/L)
25.0 g NZ Wai-iti Leaf (4% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (1.1 g/L)

Misc Bill
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1.0 g Calcium Chloride @ 90 Minutes (Mash)
4.2 g Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) @ 90 Minutes (Mash)
4.2 g Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
1/2 Protafloc Tablet @ 15 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 65°C for 90 Minutes.
Fermented at 20°C with M44 - Mangrove Jacks US West Coast

Notes
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Starting Alkalinity - 136.5 CaCO3 ppm

AMS @0.6ml/L

Treated Alkalinity - 19.5 CaCO3 ppm

Water Profile - Graham Wheelers Bitter

Mash pH - 5.5

Total Liquor - 34.2L
Mash Liquor - 11.8L
Sparge Liquor - 22.4L

Recipe Generated with BrewMate


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Grain Shot
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Mash pH Sample, a bit high at 5.5
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Nice clear and pale run-off
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!.048 OG
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Plenty of spent hops!
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Rehydrated the yeast

Cheers

MB
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Conditioning:
AG#41 - Vienna Lager - 5.6%
AG#42 - Heritage Double Ale - 10.5%

On Tap:
AG#44 - Harvest ESB - 5.4%
AG#45 - Amarillo Gold APA - 5.2%

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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by orlando » Mon Apr 02, 2018 8:43 am

Snap. Did almost exactly the same thing on Friday. Unfortunately I ran out of MO and had to add a kilo of Vienna to hit my abv target, rest is the same. My NZ hops are Kohatu, Pacific Jade and Nelson Sauvin, the latter being used as a dry hop only. I blagged some yeast at Hook Norton when I was on the tour the previous week so have pitched that. Took off like the proverbial and reckon it will be done this morning, got to love fresh brewers yeast.
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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by Monkeybrew » Mon Apr 02, 2018 10:36 am

orlando wrote:
Mon Apr 02, 2018 8:43 am
Snap. Did almost exactly the same thing on Friday. Unfortunately I ran out of MO and had to add a kilo of Vienna to hit my abv target, rest is the same. My NZ hops are Kohatu, Pacific Jade and Nelson Sauvin, the latter being used as a dry hop only. I blagged some yeast at Hook Norton when I was on the tour the previous week so have pitched that. Took off like the proverbial and reckon it will be done this morning, got to love fresh brewers yeast.
Ha, that's a coincidence!

I don't know much about Kohatu or Pacific Jade, what sort flavours are they supposed to impart?

You can't go wrong with Nelson, I may dry hop mine depending on how it tastes / smells, but i shall wait and see once it's finished fermenting.

What was Hook Norton like, is it quite small?

Cheers

MB
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Conditioning:
AG#41 - Vienna Lager - 5.6%
AG#42 - Heritage Double Ale - 10.5%

On Tap:
AG#44 - Harvest ESB - 5.4%
AG#45 - Amarillo Gold APA - 5.2%

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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by orlando » Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:59 am

Monkeybrew wrote:
Mon Apr 02, 2018 10:36 am
orlando wrote:
Mon Apr 02, 2018 8:43 am
Snap. Did almost exactly the same thing on Friday. Unfortunately I ran out of MO and had to add a kilo of Vienna to hit my abv target, rest is the same. My NZ hops are Kohatu, Pacific Jade and Nelson Sauvin, the latter being used as a dry hop only. I blagged some yeast at Hook Norton when I was on the tour the previous week so have pitched that. Took off like the proverbial and reckon it will be done this morning, got to love fresh brewers yeast.
Ha, that's a coincidence!

I don't know much about Kohatu or Pacific Jade, what sort flavours are they supposed to impart?

You can't go wrong with Nelson, I may dry hop mine depending on how it tastes / smells, but i shall wait and see once it's finished fermenting.

What was Hook Norton like, is it quite small?

Cheers

MB
Don't know much about them either, will let you know once I taste it, probably some time next week.

I guess you might consider Hook Norton to be small, but what a fanatstic example of a late Victorian brewery it is. Thoroughly recommend a visit, fantastic people. 2 hour tour, drink what you like and they even gave me some yeast. Can't say fairer than that.
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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by Monkeybrew » Thu Apr 12, 2018 8:13 am

I checked the gravity on Sunday morning and any activity from my blow off tube had ceased. The gravity measured 1.013, which I thought was a little high, so I upped the temperature by 2C to 22C and sealed the FV back up.

This seemed to bring the brew back to life, as over the next 2 days there was a steady bubbling again. I checked the gravity again last night and I was surprised to see that it was down to 1.008, now lower than I was expecting :-k

I'm now hoping that this was due to my lower than planned mash temperature of 65C, coupled with the hungry M44 yeast and nothing more sinister.

The gravity sample smelt and tasted ok, if not as hoppy as I was hoping, so I decided to go for a dry hop with the remaining 30g of each Cascade and Wai-iti.

I've dropped the temperature down to 18C now and will leave the hops in until Sunday, when I will hope to bottle and keg if everything is stable.

Cheers

MB
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Conditioning:
AG#41 - Vienna Lager - 5.6%
AG#42 - Heritage Double Ale - 10.5%

On Tap:
AG#44 - Harvest ESB - 5.4%
AG#45 - Amarillo Gold APA - 5.2%

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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by orlando » Thu Apr 12, 2018 9:04 am

Kegged mine yesterday.
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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by Monkeybrew » Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:10 pm

orlando wrote:
Thu Apr 12, 2018 9:04 am
Kegged mine yesterday.

What was your FG?

My brew is going to be nearer 5.4% now, a bit stronger than I thought :beer: :out

Cheers

MB
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Conditioning:
AG#41 - Vienna Lager - 5.6%
AG#42 - Heritage Double Ale - 10.5%

On Tap:
AG#44 - Harvest ESB - 5.4%
AG#45 - Amarillo Gold APA - 5.2%

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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by orlando » Thu Apr 12, 2018 2:06 pm

Monkeybrew wrote:
Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:10 pm
orlando wrote:
Thu Apr 12, 2018 9:04 am
Kegged mine yesterday.

What was your FG?

My brew is going to be nearer 5.4% now, a bit stronger than I thought :beer: :out

Cheers

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1.008 (same :D ) means mine will be 4.2 %. I mashed at 66c so can't complain.
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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by Monkeybrew » Sat May 26, 2018 10:31 pm

This brew hasn't quite turned out as I'd hopped, but saying that I have been making regular trips to my keg in the garage in this hot weather.

It is certainly very refreshing, if not a little bit more bitter than I wanted and the hops aren't as powerful as I was expecting either, considering how many that I used.

I suppose the relatively low FG has removed some of the malt sweetness that may have balanced the overall bitterness.

On the nose there is mild citrus and the taste that follows, is gentle malt, mild citrus hop flavour and then a crisp bitterness that for me, overpowers my taste buds slightly.

It certainly looks the part and I keep getting envious looks from my neighbour when I appear from my garage with a refreshing looking beer in hand! 8)
NZ Pale Ale.jpg
I brewed a Citra version of Dennis King's Galaxy Delight yesterday, so it will be interesting to see how these brews compare.....

Cheers

MB
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Conditioning:
AG#41 - Vienna Lager - 5.6%
AG#42 - Heritage Double Ale - 10.5%

On Tap:
AG#44 - Harvest ESB - 5.4%
AG#45 - Amarillo Gold APA - 5.2%

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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by orlando » Sat May 26, 2018 10:37 pm

Mine neither. The NZ hops were very disappointing. Maybe too old.
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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by Monkeybrew » Sat May 26, 2018 10:46 pm

orlando wrote:
Sat May 26, 2018 10:37 pm
Mine neither. The NZ hops were very disappointing. Maybe too old.
Yeah, I'm thinking I had the same issue too.

Both of my 100g packs were sealed and stored in the freezer, but the Wai-iti were 2014 and even though the Cascade were 2016, they didn't excite me when I opened the pack.

The 2017 Citra pellets that I opened yesterday for my latest brew filled my kitchen with amazing aromas, and even though they were covered in clingfilm while they sat in my brewshed waiting to go into the boil, their aroma was still escaping :)

Note to self - stop ordering so many hops and not using them quick enough! #-o

Cheers

MB
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Conditioning:
AG#41 - Vienna Lager - 5.6%
AG#42 - Heritage Double Ale - 10.5%

On Tap:
AG#44 - Harvest ESB - 5.4%
AG#45 - Amarillo Gold APA - 5.2%

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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by orlando » Sun May 27, 2018 7:49 am

Monkeybrew wrote:
Sat May 26, 2018 10:46 pm

Note to self - stop ordering so many hops and not using them quick enough! #-o
I feel your pain. :roll:
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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by FUBAR » Sun May 27, 2018 9:19 am

orlando wrote:
Sun May 27, 2018 7:49 am
Monkeybrew wrote:
Sat May 26, 2018 10:46 pm

Note to self - stop ordering so many hops and not using them quick enough! #-o
I feel your pain. :roll:
I'm a bit like a Magpie when it comes to hops,the Malt Miller doesn't help with the affliction tempting us with discounts on multi buys ](*,) :lol:
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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by Monkeybrew » Fri Jun 29, 2018 9:08 pm

FUBAR wrote:
Sun May 27, 2018 9:19 am
orlando wrote:
Sun May 27, 2018 7:49 am
Monkeybrew wrote:
Sat May 26, 2018 10:46 pm

Note to self - stop ordering so many hops and not using them quick enough! #-o
I feel your pain. :roll:
I'm a bit like a Magpie when it comes to hops,the Malt Miller doesn't help with the affliction tempting us with discounts on multi buys ](*,) :lol:
I didn't really buy 500g of Simcoe Pellets from a seller on here a few weeks ago :roll:
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AG#41 - Vienna Lager - 5.6%
AG#42 - Heritage Double Ale - 10.5%

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AG#45 - Amarillo Gold APA - 5.2%

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Re: AG#28 - Fool's Pale Ale (NZ)

Post by WalesAles » Sat Jun 30, 2018 4:34 am

Monkeybrew wrote:
Sat May 26, 2018 10:31 pm
This brew hasn't quite turned out as I'd hopped,

It certainly looks the part and I keep getting envious looks from my neighbour when I appear from my garage with a refreshing looking beer in hand! 8)
NZ Pale Ale.jpg
Cheers

MB
MB,
Good looking Beer! =D>
Turned out as you hopped or hoped? #-o

orlando,
Can't say fairer than that.
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Fairer than that. Just said it! :D

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