Generously Hopped Pale Ale - Bobek and Cascade

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:24 am

Brewed this last night:

Size: 25.0 L
Efficiency: 77.0%
Attenuation: 75.0%

Original Gravity: 1.050 (1.000 - 1.100)
Terminal Gravity: 1.013 (1.000 - 1.100)
Color: 8.95 (0.0 - 50.0)
Alcohol: 4.95% (0.0% - 10.0%)
Bitterness: 70.4 (0.0 - 50.0)

Ingredients:
5 kg Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt - TTS
500 g CaraMalt
100 g Torrified Wheat
50 g Bobek - TTS (4.5%) - added during boil, boiled 90 min
63.0 g Cascade (7.6%) - added during boil, boiled 90 min
50 g Bobek - TTS (4.5%) - steeped after boil
137 g Cascade (7.6%) - steeped after boil
Yeast - S05

Wanted something bitter and hoppy. Have always liked the idea of Bobek and Cascade together. Has anyone tried these two together? If so, what was it like?

I mashed at 71C with the hope that it will finish at around 1010-1012.

Before adding the protofloc, I sieved out as many of the bittering hops that I could then squeezed the wort back in to the boil. Didn't want to loose all that wort to all those hops! Brewhouse efficiency was a little lower than usual but that's because I ran off faster than usual plus there was still probably around 200g of hops in there at the very end.

Should be interesting!

monkeyboy · Post by **monkeyboy** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 2:43 pm

I did one a little while ago with bobek and cascade added at flameout. i used columbus for bittering. The details are all in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=35379&p=378926&hil ... ch#p378625
Had a bottle the other night, and it's really tasty. It's actually pretty close to Goose Island IPA, not that i planned it that way, 'cos i'd never had that until recently! I think you'll have a cracker on your hands

WishboneBrewery · Post by **WishboneBrewery** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:12 pm

Thats a shed load of late cascade there

!!!!!!!!

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:14 pm

monkeyboy wrote:I did one a little while ago with bobek and cascade added at flameout. i used columbus for bittering. The details are all in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=35379&p=378926&hil ... ch#p378625
Had a bottle the other night, and it's really tasty. It's actually pretty close to Goose Island IPA, not that i planned it that way, 'cos i'd never had that until recently! I think you'll have a cracker on your hands

Excellent. Cheers!

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:15 pm

pdtnc wrote:Thats a shed load of late cascade there !!!!!!!!

Yep. I got a bit brave with this one! I see you're fermenting a treacle stout. Be interesting to find out how it goes.

WishboneBrewery · Post by **WishboneBrewery** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:30 pm

I'll probably have my customary 1 week taster bottle on Thursday, initial thoughts of the Liquorice/Treacle Stout are lots of liquorice and just a hint of Treacle in the finish.

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 1:54 pm

Sounds great. Keep me posted.

mysterio · Post by **mysterio** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 1:59 pm

Great, I love the volume of late hops. I like your approach. 90 minute hops and flame out/switch off hops only, all you need.

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Fri Dec 24, 2010 9:00 pm

mysterio wrote:Great, I love the volume of late hops. I like your approach. 90 minute hops and flame out/switch off hops only, all you need.

Big time. Don't really see the sense in 10 min additions anymore.

mysterio · Post by **mysterio** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:23 pm

Been drinking any of this yet FM?

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:31 pm

When brewing this, I made a little 500ml test brew using Moorland's yeast strain. I bottled it 2 weeks ago and cracked it open last night. Really delicious. The rest is still in secondary. Will bottle it in 2 weeks time. Reason I'm leaving it there is because I know it will be better if aged a little. Obviously I could bottle and wait but I wouldn't be able to keep my mitts off them!

I can only imagine it will be even hoppier with the S05! Can't wait. Will update here of course.

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:01 am

Update!

Bottled this tonight. Had my bottles all ready: 1/4 tsp of sugar in each. I started syphoning and quickly realised it was already foamy. After filling the first bottle, I poured myself a pint. A lovely foamy head - just like a cask ale

I stopped bottling, rinsed the sugar out of the other 45 bottles bottles then resumed filling with no priming sugar at all. The pint I poured was superb. Really smooth. Recently, I've been experimenting with Centennial , Amarillo, Chinook and of course Cascade. I'm now very confident that Cascade is my favourite. My other APAs and IPAs had a harshness to them. Not this one.

Just cracked open another bottle... Need to get another batch on!

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