Styrian Stunner 08/04/2007

[Vossy1]

Today I made this little baby for the umpteenth time

Based on 80% efficiency

Marris Otter 8.55kg
Styrian Goldings 141g (Bittering hop 2hrs)
Styrian Goldings 28g (aroma hop last 15 min
10g Irish Moss (last 15 min)

Mash temp 65.5 deg c
Mash duration 90 min

Boil time 120 min
Boil volume 63.69ltr
Final volume 46ltr

Target OG 1040
Target FG 1009

All went well apart from the boil off. I had to add 3ltr to the copper to end up with 53.5ltr. This gives me my target volume of 46 ltr.

This means that with a boil volume of 66.69ltr I end up with 46 ltr after a 2 hour boil.

I set my efficiency at 80% but still got a OG of 1044..very happy

[Wez]

Good work Vossy, are you going to rename this one Champions Ale (just for this brew of course)

[prolix]

I like uncluttered brews I may try that one Vossy

[Vossy1]

Good work Vossy, are you going to rename this one Champions Ale (just for this brew of course)

Not bad...not bad Wez

I should have added some crystal, then I could have called it Red Delight ...sort of

[Matt]

Nice one Vossy, I enjoyed my batch of the Stunner.

I was gearing up to brew another batch of your Premium Pale last monday, and in the end I brewed a variant … following the hop timing advice in the 'BBQ beer' thread, to bring it down from 40 to 30 IBU (according to Beertools):

Maris Otter 4.5kg
S Goldings 180g @ 20 mins

Cheers,
Matt

[Vossy1]

I'm sure it'll be fab Matt

Styrains and pales...lurvely

[Wez]

I AM doing this brew next, the Styrians I get from my local brewery are awesome, they smell fantastic lovely smelling beer fridge at the moment. The brewery that i get them from do a pale called ' fallen angel' and their head brewer told me that they only use Strians in it, tastes sooo good. I bet this comes close..

[Vossy1]

I'd love to dry hop this one as well.

I love really hoppy beers and I'm sure the 28g's of aroma hops could be improved upon for my taste

as it happens I have some muslin stuff, was intended as a pre filter fo the plate chiller but I'm sure I can find another use for it...now it's redundant

[roger the dog]

I should have added some crystal, then I could have called it Red Delight ...sort of

How about 'Jose's Bitter' ?

[Vossy1]

How about 'Jose's Bitter' ?

[Andy]

[SteveD]

I'd love to dry hop this one as well.

I love really hoppy beers and I'm sure the 28g's of aroma hops could be improved upon for my taste

Oh yes.... how about 75G's, plus dry hopping, as in my recipe below. This came out lovely, sadly gone too soon

4.5kg Maris Otter Pale (Warminster)
46g UK Goldings - copper
42g Styrian G's - copper
30g Styrian G's - last 15 mins
45g Styrian G's - on switchoff steep 1hr+ during settle & cooling
15g Styrian G's - dry hop in cask

OG 43

Nottingham yeast.

The styrian character really comes through. This is such a popular type of beer now, if you just count the number of pale/golden/summer beers hopped with styrians on the supermarket shelves. Yes, summer is approaching, but I'm sure there are more of this type this year than last.

[Vossy1]

Cheers SD, I'll give it a whirl

[Vossy1]

Racked this little baby to 2dary @ 1009 yesterday with aux, and it'll be lucky to make it to corny

I'm going to up the hops as per SD rec, but by the gods, it green but it's great

[RabMaxwell]

I think i will give this a go when i get home as i have 5KG styrians to use.