West Coast Bitter

[oblivious]

Hi all

I brewed this today, something for the bleakness of January. I am thinking of dry hopping also with a combination of Amarillo/Cascade

West Coast Bitter



Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (L): 23.00
Total Grain (kg): 5.31
Anticipated OG: 1.055
Anticipated SRM: 7.8
Anticipated IBU: 40.1



% Amount Name
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83.0 4.41 kg. Pale Malt(2-row)
4.6 0.24 kg. Crystal 55L
12.4 0.66 kg. Munich Malt



Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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20.00 g. Amarillo Whole 8.00 20.6 60 min.
20.00 g. Cascade Whole 5.00 12.8 60 min.
20.00 g. Cascade Whole 5.00 2.6 10 min.
20.00 g. Amarillo Whole 8.00 4.1 10 min.
20.00 g. Amarillo Whole 8.00 0.0 0 min.
20.00 g. Cascade Whole 5.00 0.0 0 min.


Yeast
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White Labs WLP005 British Ale (1.5 liter stater)

[Whorst]

That looks killer! I'll probably do something similar as I have a bunch of Cascades. As you probably well know, Amarillo and Cascades work very well together.

[oblivious]

Thanks Whorst

Do you think about the dry hopping or leave the hop profile as be?

[oblivious]

Kegged this up Saturday night, F.G. was around 1.022 . I had roused the Ringwood yeast but looks to have stuck. I naturally keg condition my beer so I am hoping this will help activate the yeast and get going again?

[Whorst]

Probably unnecessary to dry hop. You've got a good dose of finishing hops. That beer would also be killer with 05. I'm brewing something very similar in a few days. Pale Malt, light crystal, a touch of 120L crystal and Amarillo/Cascade for hops.
This will be the first beer I've force carbonated in a very, long time.

[jubby]

That looks blummin nice Oblivious, right up my street, hope it tastes as good as it looks.

I have just used Amarillo for the first time here A bit of a hop schedule experiment, It's fermenting at the moment. When I open the fermenting fridge, there is a huge citrus/orange aroma, luvly.

[oblivious]

Thanks lads, I dint bother with dry hopping in the end and as Whorst suggest there was a load of aroma flavor for the last edition

Just hop it drops a few more points in the corny