This will be my first experience of Pellet hops with the Motueka, I'm going to ferment it with Safale us-05 and Mashing at 68c (though I aimed for 69c, even after a pre-heat, empty and refill of the Mash tun I still lost almost 5c from 83c in the HLT), Mash for a minimum of 60mins.
I may dry hop this with 13g of Ahtanum in the fermenter... to be decided.
Trashy Blonde
Fermentables:
Pale Malt - 70%
Caramalt - 10%
Munich Malt - 10%
Wheat Malt - 10%
Hops:
Ahtanum Whole @ 60 mins - 8g (FWH)
Motueka (B Saaz) Pellet @ 60 mins - 8g (FWH)
Simcoe Whole @ 60 mins - 8g (FWH)
Motueka (B Saaz) Pellet 6.8 % 10 mins - 22g
Simcoe Whole @ 10 mins - 23g
Ahtanum Whole @ 10 mins - 22g
Simcoe Whole @ 0 mins - 16g (80c Steep for 20-30mins)
Ahtanum Whole @ 0 mins - 16g (80c Steep for 20-30mins)
Motueka (B Saaz) Pellet @ 0 mins - 16g (80c Steep for 20-30mins)
Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.041
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 4% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.3 Litres
Mash Liquor: 9.5 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 80 %
Bitterness: 44 EBU
Colour: 11 EBC
The Malts and liquor treatment salts:
Mash Tun wrapped up:
Todays Kiwi & Yank hops:
Leaf and pellet hops:
80c Steep hops going in:
Running to fermenter, the clearest wort I've made for a long while, the break material just dropped like a stone:
Looks like about 1040, Refractometer said 11.75 Brix which is about 1045 bit high but I'm not going to worry about it:
I'll clean the copper tomorrow, there's beer to be drunk....
