#24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

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#24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

Post by chefgage » Sun Sep 16, 2018 2:26 pm

I brewed this pale ale two weeks ago, I bottled it yesterday. Its a pale ale recipe from a book but I dry hopped it with Admiral pellet.

Batch Volume - 25l
OG - 1.041
FG - 1.007
ABV - 4.5%
IBU - 26
EBC - 12
Boil Time - 60 Minutes
Mash Water - 16.2l
Sparge Water - 17.6l

Grain
Thomas Fawcett - Maris Otter Pale malt 4.5Kg
Thomas Fawcett - Pale Crystal Malt 200g

Hops
Boil 60 minutes - Challenger whole hops 35g
Hopstand 10 minutes - East kent goldings whole hops 25g
Dry hop 4 days - Admiral pellets 50g

Yeast
WLP001 Californian Ale Yeast in a one litre starter fro 24 hours

Now for a few pictures :D

Boiling up 115g of Spray dried malt extract
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Yeast added to flask and on the stir plate

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Yeast starter after a few hours

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Grainfather all wrapped up

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Grainfather ready to be unpacked and put together

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Before mashing in I normally fill the grainfather up with a few litres of water and heat it to about 70'c. This is then pumped around the system. This is just to give the pump a good flush out as it will have a bit of water in from last time.

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Grainfather drained and filter fitted

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Grainfather connect telling me to add strike water, 16.2l.

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Filling up the grainfather with 16.2l of water. I do not treat my water, but this water is coming from a water filter that filters out things that cause lime scale etc.

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As this was all happening a bit early in the morning its now time for COFFEE

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Grainfather heating the mash water up to 65'c

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Bottom plate and grain stopper fitted, I also put a tea towel around the top just to stop any bits of grain going down the side of the grain basket.

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Mashing in, carefull not to knock the grain stopper pipework off. D'oh thats exactly what I did! Ah well never mind.

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All mashed in :D

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Overflow pipe fitted and top plate pushed down to rest on top of the mashed in grain

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Lid and recirculation pipework fitted.

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Controller showing mash temp and time left on the mash recirculation (after the 57 minutes has passed it will automatically do a mash out for 10 minutes at 75'c)

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Wort looking nice and clear after mash out

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Grain basket lifted ready for sparging

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Sparge water going in

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Controller keeping track of the volume of sparge water

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Weighing out the hops

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Nice rolling boil :D

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SS Brewtech 7 gallon chronical fermenter all assembled and sanitised

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Cooling and transferring the wort to the fermenter

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Now for the boring bit, time to clear up :(

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Thats it folks :D Unfortunately I do not have any pictures of the final product i.e. photos of samples in hydrometer jars etc..

This was dry hopped for 4 days after fermentation had finished and then bottled. The aroma of the beer when bottling was excellent, very fruity/citrusy from the admiral pellets. Taste was the same, exactly what I was after. Hopefully this will not lose much of its hop character after conditioning for 4 weeks.
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Re: #24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

Post by WalesAles » Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:04 pm

chef,
Awesome post! =D>
Love the grouting on your tiles! :D

The Beer sounds like a Good`un.

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Re: #24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

Post by chefgage » Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:32 pm

WalesAles wrote:
Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:04 pm
chef,
Awesome post! =D>
Love the grouting on your tiles! :D

The Beer sounds like a Good`un.

WA
Thanks. Not sure if you are serious about the grouting :) Either way it was done before we moved in. I really need to get on with decorating.

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Re: #24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

Post by Rhodesy » Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:19 pm

Thanks for sharing, enjoy these posts where you see others processes etc. Have to admit I have not looked back since moving to one pot brewing.

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Re: #24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

Post by chefgage » Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:50 pm

Rhodesy wrote:
Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:19 pm
Thanks for sharing, enjoy these posts where you see others processes etc. Have to admit I have not looked back since moving to one pot brewing.
I must admit i do enjoy the one pot brewing. Although i do miss my 3 vessel setup, apart from the cleaning and carrying it all down from the loft that is. I am in two minds whether to sell my 3 vessel setup or hang on to it just in case.

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Re: #24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

Post by Rhodesy » Sun Sep 16, 2018 10:23 pm

chefgage wrote:
Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:50 pm
Rhodesy wrote:
Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:19 pm
Thanks for sharing, enjoy these posts where you see others processes etc. Have to admit I have not looked back since moving to one pot brewing.
I must admit i do enjoy the one pot brewing. Although i do miss my 3 vessel setup, apart from the cleaning and carrying it all down from the loft that is. I am in two minds whether to sell my 3 vessel setup or hang on to it just in case.
The cleaning was always (and still is) a pain point but then again it is the best starting point as you referred to when giving the pump a run prior to mashing in. I sold or disposed of most of my 3V gear. For the volumes I produce I am good and by no means knocking 3V but delighted with my set up now.

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Re: #24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

Post by chefgage » Sat Oct 13, 2018 10:47 am

Just a quick picture of the finished product. Its had 4 weeks conditioning so i tried a bottle last night. Aroma wise its very pleasant, nice and fruity. Taste wise there is a bit of hoppyness but its not really that noticable. But you get a bit of hop flavour in the after taste. Next time i am going to up the dry hop weight, probably double it to 100g.

Anyway here it is, it looks a bit cloudy but thats just condensate on the glass.

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Re: #24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

Post by WalesAles » Sat Oct 13, 2018 12:22 pm

chef,
Nice looking Beer there! =D>
Top tip....wipe the condensation off the glass before taking a pic, put a backlight behind the pint to show the
colour and clarity of the beer in all its` splendour. Take a drink, stand back and say `BLM`.

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Re: #24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

Post by chefgage » Sat Oct 13, 2018 12:29 pm

WalesAles wrote:
Sat Oct 13, 2018 12:22 pm
chef,
Nice looking Beer there! =D>
Top tip....wipe the condensation off the glass before taking a pic, put a backlight behind the pint to show the
colour and clarity of the beer in all its` splendour. Take a drink, stand back and say `BLM`.

WA
Best get another bottle out then and do as you suggest :)

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Re: #24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

Post by HTH1975 » Sat Oct 13, 2018 4:40 pm

Looks nice - should be killer with 100g of dry hops.

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Re: #24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

Post by Fastline » Sat Oct 13, 2018 4:42 pm

Excellent write up, keep it up very enjoyable read made so much better with the photos

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Re: #24 Pale Ale (Dry hopped)

Post by chefgage » Sat Oct 13, 2018 5:15 pm

Thanks all. I have not brewed as much as i have wanted to of late. I have a few brews lined up soon, so i will post up the brew days hopefully with more pictures :)

The next one is a Raspberry and Vanilla smoothy IPA.

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