25-10-07 nelsons brew

[delboy]

Had a brew evening with a mate from work.
Did a slight variant of my BBQ beer again, but with Nelson Sauvin hops.
4 gallons each, to fill a cornie.

6.4 Kg lager malt
0.4 Kg vienna malt
0.4 Kg wheat malt

mash at 65-66 C for 75 mins.
sparged till i felt i had enough

Boiled 60 mins
last 15 mins 45g of Nelson sauvin hops at 13.3 %

Things started off ok but after too many samples, we started to slow up.
Forgot to throw in the whirfloc at 15 mins and i was too drunk and too tired to even chill it down, bunged the lid on it and let it cool naturally overnight.
Its going to suffer terribly from haze, i might even pass it off as a wit or something

This morning i went to put pour it into the fermenters but it was coming out as a trickle (think my boiler tap is knackered).
Bailed it out with a sanitised jug, 4 gallons in 1 fermenter and about 3 in the other (had to stop because of the amount of hops going in as well).

No idea about gravities since i broke my last hydro and am waiting for a refract to be delivered but im guessing its in the 1045-50 range.

Despite all the problems the wort tasted very nice

[Garth]

I forgot me whirlfloc also last time, must be old age.

sounds like a tasty brew db, do those sauvin hops have a distinguising smell before and when you boil them?

[SiHoltye]

If this turns out great, you'll have to invite your mate again to get mortal drunk everytime you brew!................here's hoping!

[delboy]

I forgot me whirlfloc also last time, must be old age.

sounds like a tasty brew db, do those sauvin hops have a distinguising smell before and when you boil them?

They had a lovely aroma pre and post boil, is supposed to be grape like but im not sure thats how i would describe it.
I'll give the old olafactory senses another go at it tonight and try and define how they smell (to me anyway).


SH, after last nights session and my subsequent head ache today, i'll be moving these brew sessions to the weekends

[iowalad]

My beer stocks always get heavily depleted when I brew as well.

[Wobbler]

.......do those sauvin hops have a distinguising smell before and when you boil them?

I made a single hop brew using Nelson Sauvin last week. The one thing that struck me was the gorgeous smell from the dried hops.
During the mash I'd weighed them and put them to one side on the kitchen table, the powerful wafts coming from the bags every time I walked in the room was incredible, much stronger than normal. They did smell great when boiling too. Wouldn't have put the smell down to grapes though.
Easily the most pungent hops I've used to date.

Will report back when it's conditioned and properly tasted.

[subsub]

Looking good Delboy

[Vossy1]

That's one of the best brew day reports to date
Nice one DB