AG#97 - Brown Ceas
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AG#97 - Brown Ceas
Brown Ceas - This is my NCB / Saltaire Brewery brew for the bar, an American Style Brown Ale, loosely based on my previous 'Steaming, Brown & Sticky' of last year, this is going to be a little lighter in colour as the other version was almost black, or at least a very dark brown.
'Brown Ceas' its like the 3-Cs Cascade, Columbus, Chinook and its brown!
Fermentables:
Lager Malt - 72%
Wheat Malt - 10%
Crystal Malt - 5%
Caramalt - 5%
Carapils (Weyermann) - 5%
Chocolate Malt, Pale - 2%
Chocolate Malt - 1%
Hops:
Aramis - 8.9 % @ 65 mins - 36g
Saaz - 3.95 % @ 35 mins - 40g
Columbus (Tomahawk) - 16.5 % @ 0 mins - 30g
Cascade - 7.9 % @ 0 mins - 30g
Chinook - 12.5 % @ 0 mins - 60g
Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.045
Final Gravity: 1.012
Alcohol Content: 4.3% ABV
Mash Efficiency: 77 % (Its too late now, I punched in 77 rather than 75%!!!)
Bitterness: 45 EBU
Colour: 46 EBC
Mash: 68c for 60-90mins
Yeast: Safale us-05
The Malts:
First Wort Aramis Hops:
Recirculating the Mash for Clarity:
The Hops all weighed out and ready:
85c Steep Hops in for 30mins:
Top-Down view of the copper running off to FV, I got 1052 Gravity:
The spent hops in the copper, they soaked up a good couple of litres:
AG#97 - Brown Ceas by pdtnc, on Flickr
Bit of a late start but all done and dusted, liquored back just short of 3L from 1052 to 1045 getting a 21.92 Litre yield so only 1L short of target volume.
I almost forgot to add the Protafloc 'cos I was messing about on Twitter too much, extended boil by 5 mins to account for lack of concentration!
I may dry hop this with Cascade Pellets, we shall see...
'Brown Ceas' its like the 3-Cs Cascade, Columbus, Chinook and its brown!
Fermentables:
Lager Malt - 72%
Wheat Malt - 10%
Crystal Malt - 5%
Caramalt - 5%
Carapils (Weyermann) - 5%
Chocolate Malt, Pale - 2%
Chocolate Malt - 1%
Hops:
Aramis - 8.9 % @ 65 mins - 36g
Saaz - 3.95 % @ 35 mins - 40g
Columbus (Tomahawk) - 16.5 % @ 0 mins - 30g
Cascade - 7.9 % @ 0 mins - 30g
Chinook - 12.5 % @ 0 mins - 60g
Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.045
Final Gravity: 1.012
Alcohol Content: 4.3% ABV
Mash Efficiency: 77 % (Its too late now, I punched in 77 rather than 75%!!!)
Bitterness: 45 EBU
Colour: 46 EBC
Mash: 68c for 60-90mins
Yeast: Safale us-05
The Malts:
First Wort Aramis Hops:
Recirculating the Mash for Clarity:
The Hops all weighed out and ready:
85c Steep Hops in for 30mins:
Top-Down view of the copper running off to FV, I got 1052 Gravity:
The spent hops in the copper, they soaked up a good couple of litres:
AG#97 - Brown Ceas by pdtnc, on Flickr
Bit of a late start but all done and dusted, liquored back just short of 3L from 1052 to 1045 getting a 21.92 Litre yield so only 1L short of target volume.
I almost forgot to add the Protafloc 'cos I was messing about on Twitter too much, extended boil by 5 mins to account for lack of concentration!
I may dry hop this with Cascade Pellets, we shall see...
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Re: AG#97 - Brown Ceas
Should be like a BBQ with Beer & brewday.... or something!
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Re: AG#97 - Brown Ceas
Just Dry Hopped with 20g each of Cascade & Amarillo, so approx 2g/litre, Gravity at 1011.
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Re: AG#97 - Brown Ceas
Yum! Looking forward to it.
I think all the beers on the bar are going to taste similar, regardless of colour, abv, malt, yeast... etc!
I think all the beers on the bar are going to taste similar, regardless of colour, abv, malt, yeast... etc!
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Re: AG#97 - Brown Ceas
I'll hopefully get this in a box during the week, going to try for just 3 days on the hops.
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Re: AG#97 - Brown Ceas
can't wait to give this a go, your dark IPA, was excellent last year so no pressure...are you serving from polypins this, year just you mentioned box
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everything is from Bag-in-Box this year, though I have been asked to use a pin so we don't have to dismantle as many Cask Tap nuts from the lines... we shall see.
Its not going to be as mad as last years brew
Its not going to be as mad as last years brew
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Re: AG#97 - Brown Ceas
Sounds tasty! Let me know how you get on with those early Aramis additions.
Also, a quicky question re bag in a box. I presume if you're using them now you've settled on a conditioning procedure. I haven't had a lot of space to play around with my bags for a few months so I've made little progress. But, with summer rapidly approaching it would be nice to get a few batched split off into bags ready for the handpull. Care to share your procedure?
Also, a quicky question re bag in a box. I presume if you're using them now you've settled on a conditioning procedure. I haven't had a lot of space to play around with my bags for a few months so I've made little progress. But, with summer rapidly approaching it would be nice to get a few batched split off into bags ready for the handpull. Care to share your procedure?
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I used Aramis in my previous brew with a load of late Mt. hood, tastes great and makes a good middle of the road spicy session ale with a slight oranginess.
The Bag-in-boxes will keep your beer fresh for Months but it will lack condition so is best served fresh, I wrote a procedure for the NCB beers for the bar https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wjw ... fN_ro/edit
The Bag-in-boxes will keep your beer fresh for Months but it will lack condition so is best served fresh, I wrote a procedure for the NCB beers for the bar https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wjw ... fN_ro/edit
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