Any amarillo recipes

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:04 pm

Thinking of having a go at making an ale with some amarillo.

Thinking along the lines of
4 kg pale malt
1 kg Vienna
250g Crystal (60 E.B.C)

28 g cascade 6.8 % at 60 min
14 g cascade 6.8 % at 30 min
7 g amarillo 7.5 % at 15 min
7 g amarillo 7.5 % at 5 min

mash 65-66 C
Nottingham yeast

Anyone got any suggestions or better still any tried and tested recipes.

Gurgeh · Post by **Gurgeh** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:22 pm

looks pretty tasty!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:38 pm

Delboy,

Looking tasty.

A few of us made Tribs Amarillo IPA and its a good 'un.

The only drawback with this hop is that everyone breaks into song when you tell them the name of the brew

Matt

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:25 pm

Cheers guys, i don't have any special B malt to give tribs recipe a try, i might go with the above recipe but maybe substitute the cascade for amarillo at 30 mins

niall · Post by **niall** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:01 pm

Hi delboy,

I made one a while ago and it worked out very well. The hop emphasis is more on flavour than bitterness but it still hits about 40 IBU.

5Kg Pale
300g Light Crystal
100g CaraPils (I would have used double but it's all the Carapils I had left)

38g Perle 6% @ 60
20g Amarillo 8% @ 15
20g Amarillo 8% @ 5
20g Amarillo 8% @ 0

Dry hopped with 20g Amarillo

You could of course use Amarillo for bittering but I didn't have enough at the time and I wanted to save it for flavour/aroma.

edit: Just looked at tribs Amarillo IPA and it's broadly similar so I dunno why I bothered posting this as an alternative

Garth · Post by **Garth** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:06 pm

that looks like a good recipe niall, I already have tribs but have saved that one also, what efficiency and batch size is that for please?

I have some Perle that needs using up, and recipe with it in seem few and far between.

Scooby · Post by **Scooby** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:53 pm

I brewed Panhandle Bitter a while ago and it's drinking really well. I was impressed with Roosters Outlaw Amarillo so thought I would give them a try. Really like the hop and will be using it again.

Panhandle Bitter

niall · Post by **niall** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:43 pm

Garth,

I've lost my notes for the efficiency of that batch as it was on a (now) dead laptop. I had posted the basic recipe on another forum so thankfully I was able to retrieve that much.

My efficiency has been going up and down as I change my system around but I think it was low 70's. It was a 5 gallon batch. (batch sparge, mashed @ 65 for an hour, boiled for an hour)

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:42 am

Thanks for the input guys, im going to try one or two of those recipes in the future i actually settled for the following (looking to keep the hopppiness reasonably subtle)

MO 4.5 Kg
Vienna 1 kg
Crystal 300g

28g amarillo 9 % 60 mins
7g amarillo 9 % 20 mins
7g amarillo 9 % 5 mins
14g amarillo 9 % flameout

mash 66C 90 mins
Batch sparge
90 min boil
just over 5 gallons of 1050 wort, pitched nottingham yeast, head on it this morning

Plan to dry hop this brew as well with another 15-20g of amarillo.

I see that others have tried dry hopping wirh amarillo, how did that work out???

If this brew turns out to be to subtle, i'll replace the amarillo bittering addition with cascade and beef up the flavour and aroma additions of amarillo.

niall · Post by **niall** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:36 am

The dry hop with Amarillo worked really well, it's not at all harsh for a reasonably high alpha hop.

Garth, I should have mentioned, SNPA uses Perle for bittering and I've used it in a couple of APA/IPAs so it should work well in tandem with any of the American citrus hops.

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:06 am

Quote: David Edge
You could also put the chiller in, cool to 80C, then do your hop steep, then cool to 20-30 and then settle - that's what we do. Not that I'm worried about extracting bitterness - rather Kunze (it's that man again, p321) suggests that by dropping to 80C you optimise the extraction of aroma - that's to say you get lots out without promptly boling them off again.
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The hops at flameout were actually bunged in at about 80C as per Davids suggestion above, thought i would give it a whirl and see how it goes.

niall · Post by **niall** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:49 am

That's a really good idea. On one of the Basic Brewing podcasts which focussed on hops they mentioned the same temperature as being ideal for extracting the aroma.

Garth · Post by **Garth** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:34 pm

niall wrote:The dry hop with Amarillo worked really well, it's not at all harsh for a reasonably high alpha hop.

Garth, I should have mentioned, SNPA uses Perle for bittering and I've used it in a couple of APA/IPAs so it should work well in tandem with any of the American citrus hops.

Thanks for that niall, thats what I have the Perle leftovers from, two or three attempts at SNPA, which I'm nearly there with...

bconnery · Post by **bconnery** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:50 pm

There's a popular golden ale here in Oz that uses it.
I don't have a good AG recipe but essentially it is 65% ale malt, 30% wheat, 5% medium crystal. Bittered with a higher alpha bittering hop, this is Australia so it means Pride of Ringwood, and then flavour and aroma all Amarillo. Dry hopped if you are homebrewing, although the commercial version isn't. Any good english ale yeast would do but for any beer where you want the hop character to really come through you can't go past s05, or US56 as it was formely known...

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:31 pm

I've been drinking this over the last few nigths, its great

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