AG#38 - Stateside Torpedo IPA

[WishboneBrewery]

Stateside Torpedo IPA - A serious double boiled (due to being a bit tipsy) Hopped-to-F@#K American Pale Ale with the Malt Bill coming from a Mikkeller Stateside IPA and Most of the Hopping coming from a Sierra Nevada Torpedo clone... Yeahhh!! We Made Beer!!! Eventually
Today was mainly about giving a brewing lesson to Rob....

Fermentables:
Lager Malt - 3800g - 70%
Munich Malt - 650g - 12%
Flaked Oats - 540g - 10%
Cara Munich Type I - 430g - 8%

Hops:
Magnum 75 mins @ 20g
Crystal 25 mins @ 80g
Magnum 25 mins @ 40g
Crystal 15 mins @ 10g
Magnum 15 mins @ 5g
****At this point in the day we re-boiled for 15mins as we'd forgot the Protafloc Tablet, obviously caused by starting drinking at 11am (see photos)
Then decided to give it some more hops as the extra 15mins would have killed the Aroma
Centennial - 0 mins @ 28g
Centennial - 0 mins @ 28g
Hallertauer Mittlefruh - 0 mins 0 lbs. 1.1 oz 30 grams 12.4% - Dry Hop in Fermenter after initial fermentation

Final Volume: 19 Litres - (Ended up with a good bit less!)
Original Gravity: 1.065 - (Actually ended up with 1.072 after the re-boil)
Final Gravity: 1.019
Alcohol Content: 6% ABV
Total Liquor: 29.3 Litres
Mash Liquor: 13.6 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 80 %
Bitterness: 114 EBU - (Re-calculated, should have been about 70 I think!)
Colour: 26 EBC

90min Mash, 60min Boil then cool followed by a 15min boil then cool!!
Yeast - Safale US-05

Bit drunk, but an interesting brewday with Rob from http://www.hopzine.com
Cheers to Paul from http://www.BarleyBottom.com for the Last minute Crystal Hops

No Brewday pictures as we were busy nattering and drinking a fine selection of beers Rob brought

The Aftermath Pictures....
We had a few beers!:

Leftovers:

Mess:

Lots of hops!:

This mornings fine layer of head forming, sat at 18c so I've put it somewhere a little warmer now:

[bosium]

Wow, that's quite a mix of hops. What does Crystal taste like?
I take it you're using WLP001 for this?

[bosium]

Oh and good on yer for using Caramunich I - I *love* that malt in a hoppy pale ale!

[WishboneBrewery]

Yeast is US-05, I'm not sure what the Crystal Hops will be like...
I shall edit the recipe above so as to explain the brewday better Aftermath photos coming...

[WishboneBrewery]

10% Flaked Oats and it sparged/ Ran off like a dream, no problems at all.
Sometimes I think what you read about Max Percentages is a load of bollocks, I've done 60% Wheat in a recipe with no problems before. And even if things do stick a little its not a problem with a bit of a poke & a stir.

Looks a pretty steady ferment on this one so far...

[WishboneBrewery]

Hydro Sample @ 1026
Very Fruity, slightly bitter but smooth, little alcohol in the finish... just wait while its Dry Hopped

[Deebee]

Yeast is US-05, I'm not sure what the Crystal Hops will be like...
I shall edit the recipe above so as to explain the brewday better Aftermath photos coming...

I used crystal once in the only brew that ever got infected.

the smells coming from it and the taste was actually like a very sharp grapefruit, the aftertaste was just like when you have eaten a grapefuit. Sadly i never have bothered to use it again.

[WishboneBrewery]

Beer Dry Hopping this since Friday with a a mix of Mittlefruh, Magnum & Cascade...
Aroma: Pure Tropical fruit juice
Flavour: Floral and Tropical fruit, a fair amount of alcohol but masked well by the hopping, lots of body quite silky
Bitterness: kind of like milk on teeth type feel, very smooth

Maybe bottling this Wednesday depending on taste

[pantsmachine]

Just for doing it and getting pished at the same time
Recipe looks great.

I was educating my Dad on beers the other day and mentioned Sierra Nevada Torpedo. He thought it was the best beer name ever!

[WishboneBrewery]

ha ha, it went nearly without hitch!!

[Capper20]

This is the sort of brew day I had with a mate when we created a beer in tribute of Keith Floyd, we were smashed by 4PM. It turned out to be wonderful.

[Manx Guy]

American Pale Ale with the Malt Bill coming from a Mikkeller Stateside IPA and Most of the Hopping coming from a Sierra Nevada Torpedo clone... Yeahhh!! We Made Beer!!! Eventually

Sounds great in its own right that recipe...

However I'm curious about the hopping for Stateside as I had the American dream and that was pretty hoppy! (Like an Apple Schnaps almost - fruit on the nose with a quite a bit of alcohol too!)

Do Centenial make good Aroma (last<15mins) or dry hops? I know they are supposed to be like cascade but I've only used them as a bittering hop...

I love a well hopped Pale Ale!



Guy

[WishboneBrewery]

I used Cascade as dry hop, the Centennial went in the flame-out & 80c steep
I would think Centennial would still be good for a Dry hop though.

[WishboneBrewery]

I seriously doubt that a boil-cool-boil-cool would make it to a production environment
The Clarity problem comes from adding a lot of Dry Hops for the volume of beer, conventional isinglass finings would probably have no trouble in making it a bright beer.

[WishboneBrewery]

I had a bottle of this last night, it is bloody good... really smooth Bitterness and bags of flavour, you really can't tell its about 7%
One to make again with a bit of sanity!!