NZ Pale recipe. How does this look?

[leedsbrew]

Gonna be getting this done on the weekend so wanted to get peoples thoughts! I've never used green bullet before but am hoping for some of the styrian flavour I've read it has


20L Batch
Expected Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.043 SG
Expected OG: 1.055 SG
Expected FG: 1.015 SG
Apparent Attenuation: 72.5 %
Expected ABV: 5.4 %
Expected ABW: 4.2 %
Expected IBU (using Tinseth): 42.8 IBU
Expected Color (using Morey): 5.1 SRM

Fermentables
Ingredient Amount %
UK Pale Ale Malt - Marris Otter 1.780 kg 40.0 %
UK Munich Malt 1.335 kg 30.0 %
UK Lager Malt 0.890 kg 20.0 %
UK Wheat Malt 0.223 kg 5.0 %
German Caramel Pils 0.223 kg 5.0 %

Hops
Variety Alpha Amount IBU Form When
NZ Pacific Gem 14.0 % 12 g 20.0 Loose Whole Hops All Of Boil
NZ Green Bullet 13.7 % 20 g 15.2 Loose Whole Hops 15 Min From End
NZ Green Bullet 13.7 % 25 g 7.6 Loose Whole Hops 5 Min From End
NZ Green Bullet 13.7 % 50 g 0.0 Loose Whole Hops At turn off


Yeast
White Labs WLP051-California Ale V

[Manx Guy]

Hi,

Looks interesting...
Was this inspired by any particular commercial brew?

I might be alone on this one, but I find green bullet to have more of a 'noble like' green floral/spicyness though there is some styrian citrusyness... If that makes any sense at all...

I seem to remember someone on here making an IPA style brew using only Green bullet, have a search you should find his post...



Guy

[leedsbrew]

Cheers matey, I'll have a look!

[mysterio]

I've heard from a few sources Green Bullet is a nice aroma hop, this recipe looks nice.

[leedsbrew]

Cheers M, that's what I'm hoping for! I'm just getting the yeast starter on now so should be fighting fit by Sunday afternoon

[Mauri]

go for it!!! I am tasting a very very very young IPA made with Green Bullet only and it is already yummy. As Manx Guy said, Green Bullet has little to do with Styrians in terms of aroma, but very very good in its own right. I just wish I hadn't bothered with the crystal and kept it pale and Munich only. Now I just have to hide the bottles away and hope I can resist and leave it to mature for long enough.

[befuggled]

I have a bag of Green Bullet just waiting for some FV space.
PM and Munich, maybe a bit of wheat, let the hops shine through. Around 5.5-6.5% abv.
I was thinking 30gms 90 mins, 25 gms 15 mins, 25 gms 2 mins, 20 gms 80C steep for 30 mins
This sort of schedule has served me well for Amarillo, Simcoe, Nelson, Cascade and most recently Chinook.
How does that compare with yours Mauri? What yeast did you go for?
Also going to try Ahtanum soon.

Best of luck with yours Leedsbrew - let us know how it went!

[Scooby]

I must admit I never use that many malts in a brew mainly as I don't know what they all contribute, maybe I should experiment a little but then I'll end up with a loads of bin end bags hanging around

I'm agree with befuggled and very much like the hop schedule

[Mauri]

I have a bag of Green Bullet just waiting for some FV space.
PM and Munich, maybe a bit of wheat, let the hops shine through. Around 5.5-6.5% abv.
I was thinking 30gms 90 mins, 25 gms 15 mins, 25 gms 2 mins, 20 gms 80C steep for 30 mins
This sort of schedule has served me well for Amarillo, Simcoe, Nelson, Cascade and most recently Chinook.
How does that compare with yours Mauri? What yeast did you go for?
Also going to try Ahtanum soon.

Best of luck with yours Leedsbrew - let us know how it went!

mine was pale, 5%Munich,7%Crystal, 5%wheat (next time no crystal. it just does not belong there, I think) 1.060 OG
30g at 60 mins, 30 g at 10 mins, 10g at 80C steep for about 20 mins and dry hop in the fermenter with another 20g (after the fermentation has stopped, for 5 days). Should be around 60EBU. So very close to yours, I'd say. I used Nottingham, recycled from the previous Proper Jobby. I was planning to do something similar with Pacific Gem only, so, just to hijack Leedsbrew's thread even more I will ask, what do people think of Pacific Gem as flavour and aroma hops?

[pokerswazi]

I'm planning something similar but with Nelsons and pacific gems. grain bill is very similar though. I'll be watching this thread to see how yours turns out. Seems like a fine idea to me...

[weiht]

NZ hops are really interesting... Looking forward to use some B saaz in future

[leedsbrew]

Cheers for the info chaps. I didnt want to go all the way too an IPA with this one as I've got a traditional style (65-70 IBU from 90min addition only) Fuggles IPA and wanted something a bit lighter for up coming BBQ's.

Mauri. I'm with you on the crystal. I've taken to leaving it out of my lighter/paler ales.

I wanted to keep it pale, that's why the lager malt is in there (nothing to do with the lack of MO in my stores! ) The carapils is a user upper as I've got an opern 500g bag doing nothing.

I'll probably dry hop this with the rest of the 100g bag of green bullet. I'm very much looking forward to this one as I was expecting it to taste like stytrians (which is what most wb sites state) but as you guys say it's more of a 'noble' flavour which is awesome

[leedsbrew]

Hi,

Looks interesting...
Was this inspired by any particular commercial brew?

Sorry manx forgot to reply last time, no it's not, I just fancied a NZ pale so came up with this!