Brewers Gold

[yashicamat]

This is supposed to be something closer to the Pictish version, but here we go anyway:

For a 23 litre batch assuming my usual 83% brewhouse efficiency

3682g Maris Otter Low Colour (100%)

28g Brewers Gold 6.7% 60min
53g Brewers Gold 6.7% 10min
19g Brewers Gold 6.7% 20 min steep at 80 degrees*

*would I be better shifting some of this into a dryhop instead?

I'm aiming for 1040 OG, using water treatment set to dry pale ale and US-05 yeast. Should hit about 35 IBU and 3.9% abv ish.

Thoughts? I am after something very hoppy here but unfortunately only have 100g of hops to play with, unless I chuck some Hallertauer in as well, but I guess it wouldn't be Brewers Gold then.

Cheers.

[yashicamat]

Thanks Chris, I'll do that. I am being very wary of dryhopping after my recent cascade experience, but it sounds like BG doesn't suffer from this.

Do you think this hop schedule will produce a good, hoppy beer? I've not used BG before so I don't know how much "bang for buck" it gives.

[jamesb]

I did this one a few months back

Brewers Gold

Recipe Brewers Gold Style American Pale Ale
Brewer James Bendall Batch 23.00 L
All Grain

Recipe Characteristics
Recipe Gravity 1.052 OG Estimated FG 1.013 FG
Recipe Bitterness 38 IBU Alcohol by Volume 5.0%
Recipe Color 6° SRM Alcohol by Weight 3.9%

Ingredients
Quantity Grain Type Use
2.00 kg Lager malt Grain Mashed
3.00 kg Maris Otter Malt Grain Mashed
0.20 kg Torrified wheat Adjunct Mashed

Quantity Hop Type Time
30.00 g Brewers Gold Whole 90 minutes
20.00 g Brewers Gold Whole 15 minutes
40.00 g Brewers Gold Whole 0 minutes

Quantity Misc Notes
1.00 unit Irish Moss Fining
1.00 unit Nottingham (Danstar) Yeast

Recipe Notes

Dry Hop in secondary/cornie with 10g of Brewers Gold


It tasted closer to the Pictish version than the Crouch Vale (not a massive fan of the CV one TBH) and I thought was one of the tastiest beers I've ever made.

[yashicamat]

That sounds good, James. I think I'll use US-05 as I think it's even more transparent with hop flavours than Nottingham is.

[yashicamat]

Brewed this today, did an overnight mash (went from 68 to 58 degrees in 7.5 hours). Ended up using 32g of bittering hops and 50g at 10 mins. The rest of the 100g pack will be probably used for dryhopping (Brewer's Gold doesn't go astringent like Cascade does it?).

All went smoothly except I managed to mess up my volume calculations and ended up with 20.5 litres at 1.043 rather than 23 litres at 1.040 but at least it'll be a better fit in the corny.

[Toast]

Thanks Chris, I'll do that. I am being very wary of dryhopping after my recent cascade experience, but it sounds like BG doesn't suffer from this.

Do you think this hop schedule will produce a good, hoppy beer? I've not used BG before so I don't know how much "bang for buck" it gives.

I dry hopped with Cascade: only for four days, but still ended up with a very grassy taste. certainly did not improve the beer!

I tried a Brewer's Gold recipe that had 150g of hops in total going in. Only had 100g Brewer's Gold so supplemented with goldings for bittering. Turned out very sweet and lucious, but not very bitter. Rare fruits falvour, orange and peach almost. Beer was almost a confection.