Linthwaite Light Amarillo

[fivetide]

This evening I made up another Brupaks kit - Linthwaite Light.



In the bucket at 1.043

I didn't boil the extract this time, but did simmer the hop bag for 20 minutes in some of the extract and two tins of boiling water anyway.

Other than a half teaspoon of Yeast-Vit and swapping in Safale-04 rehydrated yeast, this was quite straightforward. Ideally I should have boiled and used a starter as with the Fixby, but hopefully all will be well.

My plan is to drop in a hefty bag of Amarillo hops into secondary with this one to make a really refreshing session ale.

I've had a bit of a search about on the forum but anyone with Linthwaite Light tales to tell?

[fivetide]

I want to fill all three cornis I own plus two brews of bottles and some TC too, so that in a couple of months I can have a mini-Fivetide fest in the shed

Then it's a shed refit and AG experiments!

[fivetide]

The Amarillo has turned out to be just 4.0% AA



Hopefully 50g for a week in secondary will still give it the desired effect.

[fivetide]

This Linthwaite Light reached 1.011 from 1.043 (est. 4.2% abv) on Monday morning, measured the same this lunchtime, and so on it goes from primary to secondary where it will probably only drop a further 0.001 I'd guess.

It'll now stay in its latest home for a weekish, together with a nice chunky muslin bag containing a boiled stone with a hole in it from Aldeburgh beach weighing down 40g of Amarillo.

The Amarillo smells fantastic by the way - hops are my favourite bit

[ChrisG]

looking good

[fivetide]

I need to keg this today, but I'm all out of bottles and 23L of beer ino 19L of Corni just won't go! I really must get a crown capper one day, as I throw so many beer bottles in the bottle bank, it's madness.

Anyhoo, I guess this will be going into my spare King Keg at lunchtime - the one that until yesterday still had dregs of Smugglers in it. I rinsed, washed and scrubbed roughly, then soaked in strong bicarb over night. I'll wash out with a sponge, clean the tap and floats and bits, then rinse everything thoroughly before the Iodophor shuffle...

On the plus side this does mean I can do a Hoegaarden style wheat later this week to go in my last Corni, hopefully having freed up a half dozen bottles in the next couple of weeks.

[fivetide]

Racked the Linthwaite Light Amarillo at lunchtime. Had to go in a KK because I needed the full 23L having no bottles. KK actually looks quite chunky and pleasing after using Cornis for a bit, but I'm not completely happy. It took a lot of cleaning, there was a lot of vaz knocking about from the seals, the tap only did up so tight before clicking off its thread and I have to use precious sparklets not the massive pub gas, which seems a bit daft. Anyway, it went smoothly.



Hoiked the hops, tested at 1.010 / 1.011 from 1.043 which I think will result in around ABV 4.2. Smelt great at this stage, tasted good too, let's hope the barrel doesn't contain any nasties from its holiday in the shed. Nuked 70g light spraymalt in 250ml water as a primer then racked under the surface with a siphon following a blast of pub CO2.



This brew was supposed to go in a Corni as mentioned, so I had secondary fermented it quite clear. Because it now has to prime itself, I siphoned into the residual yest a bit towards the end - shame.

All done, I blasted a CO2 sparklet in to check seals and purge 02. All seals seemed fine apart from the pressure release which understandably released, bearing in mind the small headspace and the full 10cm3 gas being forced in there.



Vented and left alone for a week or so, at which time it will go outside in the cool for a further three weeks or more before a taster.

[subsub]

Instead of Sparklets use a Universal Barrel Hose it'll fit to your pub gas with the correct JG fittings

[fivetide]

Hmm, must get me some of that then...

Need some JG stuff anyway as I don't have any Ts and need to turn my two-way gas splitter to a three-way for dispense.

[fivetide]

I moved this outdoors today to condition and stuck a bin bag over it for luck.

In various stages of conditioning I now have 120 pints in kegs and 40 pints bottled, and yet I'm still drinking supermarket Fuller's Discovery! That hardly seems fair!

[fivetide]

But, but, but... ...it looks good, yet it's a veritable beer desert!



That Fixby is getting a short, sharp seeing to at the weekend, that's for sure.

[Minus The Bear]

Hope we will be getting regular updates on the state of your peanut arrangement

[fivetide]

Had first sample of this a minute ago. Nice carbonisation, smells great, tastes pretty good, clean finish, golden but not bright.

Needs another couple of weeks to condition out and drop entirely clear, but shaping up to be a good one and the Amarillo has done its job well.

[fivetide]

This is now ready to serve to people other than myself!

I'd forgotten how gassy and spluttery a KK tap can be, so had to release a lot of natural pressure to cut down on foam.

But it's all clear now and a nice drop.

I'd say it was very clean and crisp, nice and hoppy on the nose and obviously Amarillo. Perhaps a little thin, but not inconsistent with many commerical light ales.

It's not as interesting as the Milestone Crusader with Cascade (which is very gluggable and remarkably smooth), as rounded as a Great Eastern with Bramling Cross (more body), or as weighty as the Fixby, but it's a decent fragrant quaffer and no mistake.

[Minus The Bear]

That looks beaut mate, have you tried the steam beer yet?