This time its an American IPA and I changed the recipe a bit and used a full 100g of Cascade hops. Boil hops and aroma.......so lets see how this gets on.
Recipe: American IPA
Brewer: Chris
Style: American IPA
TYPE: All Grain
Start 7:00pm
Finish 11:30pm
Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 25.00 L
Boil Size: 32.90 L
Estimated OG: 1.056 SG
Estimated Color: 6.7 SRM
Estimated IBU: 53.9 IBU
Boil Time: 60 Minutes
Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 93.2 %
0.25 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 4.2 %
0.15 kg Wheat, Torrified (1.7 SRM) Grain 2.5 %
40.00 gm Cascade [7.30%] (60 min) Hops 28.8 IBU
30.00 gm Northern Brewer [8.50%] (60 min) Hops 25.1 IBU
20.00 gm Cascade [7.30%] (10 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep Hops -
40.00 gm Cascade [7.30%] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
1 Pkgs Nottingham Yeast
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The grains
Using off cuts of pipe I hold in place my copper mash strainer, till I can get some clips.
Seems to work well. Strike water temp 80c.
Mashed at 66c for 2 hours and didnt loose a degree even though it was 3 degrees outside! 14L of mash water.
First runnings
....and into the boiler
Mushroom box doing its stuff. Sparged at around 75c. 26L sparge water.
Checking gravity of wort run off and managed to finish at around 1010.
Spent grains
Boil hops (scales from Tesco btw £9.99...i think) temp shows its 8.5 degrees in my garage....bit cold!
Boil hops in
Last 10min and aroma hops.......all Cascade (hope I like them, not tried them before!!!!!)
Cooling
Running off into fermenting bin, nice colour and very clear.
SG of 1052 just short of my original but thats fine just about as high as I wanted anyway.
Wort finished running at exactly 5 gallons, good result!!!
Used Nottingham yeast and just sprinkled it on to the wort.....lets see how it works.
The End!
Really enjoyed this one a lot and Cascade hops seem good so far.
night night its past my bed time!!!
