Brewdog 77 Lager

[mysterio]

I fancy giving this a shot with my yeast slurry from my next lager, I reckon it's one of the best lagers available in the UK. Infact I can think of only two decent ones, this and Schiehallion.

I emailed the brewery to see if I can get any info on it but let's see what we can come up with first

Here's what we have:

ABV:4.9%
OG:1046
IBU’s:35
Malts:Pale Malt, Caramalt, Munich Malt
Hops:Motoeka, Amarillo

Here's my guess at a recipe, any thoughts ? ?

77 lager

Type: All Grain
Date: 18/11/2009
Batch Size: 6 US Gallons
Boil Size: 6.87 gal
Boil Time: 60 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.00 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.5 EBC) Grain 86.02 %
0.20 kg Caramalt (30.0 EBC) Grain 4.30 %
0.45 kg Munich Malt - 10L (19.7 EBC) Grain 9.68 %
25.00 gm Amarillo [8.60 %] (60 min) Hops 21.4 IBU
80.00 gm Motoeka [6.80 %] (0 min) Hops - (Steep for 30 mins, expecting 10 - 15 IBUs)

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.046 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.010 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.69 %
Bitterness: 21.4 IBU
Est Color: 9.9 EBC

My Mash Step Time Name Description Step Temp
60 min Step Add 12.55 L of water at 74.4 C 68.0 C

Yeast... thick slurry of Saflager W 34/70 fermented at 9c

[196osh]

That looks great. Not sure about the way that you gain the IBUs will be the same as Brewdogs. They use one of those plate chillers and a pump so mabye there are more hop additions, say at 15 mins for the late IBUs. Too bad I never got to see it made.

[mysterio]

Do they cut the boil, add the hops, and chill immediately ? Or are the hops allowed to steep ?

[leigh1919]

Definately on the right track with Amarillo - thats the main hop taste/aroma in 77 imo

[196osh]

Do they cut the boil, add the hops, and chill immediately ? Or are the hops allowed to steep ?

Steeping I think....

But in all honesty I can't remember.

I think it would be poor form not to, they would lose a lot of possible hop aroma which is the promenant feture of a lot of brewdog beers. Mabye try a wee bit of Amarillo for flavour?

Also a quick consideration if you want to get the colour right. Brewdog get quite a bit of wort darkening due to the elements that they use. I don't think that 77 is 10ebc, think it is darker.

[mysterio]

I don't buy that steeping looses hop aroma. If anything I think it pronounces both aroma and flavour.

Yeah I think you're right about the colour. Maybe a drop of light crystal to rectify that. Also some of their other literature says 1.049 OG which seems more like it.

[dandan]

From the Brewdog fact sheet:

ABV: 4.9%
OG: 1046
IBU’s: 35
Malts: Pale Malt, Caramalt, Munich Malt
Hops: Chinook, Amarillo, Cascade

http://www.brewdog.com/media/downloads/ ... r_sell.pdf