blogamist - Beer Blog: August 2011

Sunday 21 August 2011

Amarillo A.P.A

This is an American Pale Ale recipe with Amarillo hops. Also try this with Cascade hops or a mix. I like to carbonate this one quite high and serve chilled like a larger, ideal for a hot summers day in the garden.
You can buy this as an extract kit from BrewUk.

Haven't quite perfected the chill haze issues I have....working on this !

Lots of grapefruit flavour in this one, went crazy on the aroma hop steep this time around..reduce the late hop addition if you like to 25 g.

Recipe: Amarillo American Pale Ale

Style: American Pale Ale

TYPE: All Grain

Recipe Specifications

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Boil Size: 27.77 l

Post Boil Volume: 21.53 l

Batch Size (fermenter): 19.00 l

Bottling Volume: 19.00 l

Estimated OG: 1.047 SG

Estimated Color: 8.7 EBC

Estimated IBU: 29.6 IBUs

Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %

Est Mash Efficiency: 81.7 %

Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:

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Amt Name Type %/IBU

4.00 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) Grain 100.0 %

22.00 g Amarillo Gold [6.70 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 18.7 IBUs

26.00 g Amarillo Gold [6.70 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 11.0 IBUs

50.00 g Amarillo Gold [6.70 %] - Aroma Steep 10.0 min Hop 0.0 IBUs

1.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) Yeast -

0.50 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining -

Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Light Body, No Mash Out

Total Grain Weight: 4.00 kg

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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time

Mash In Add 10.43 l of water at 73.1 C 65.6 C 75 min

Sparge: Fly sparge with 22.29 l water at 75.6 C

Ferment: 14 Days in Primary ( 10 days if your eager)
Carbonate: 2.1 - 2.3 Volumes Co2

Prince Of Orange - Full Mash Recipe

The key to this recipe is to get a good fruity medium/full body and good balance between the sweetness and the bitterness.

Its important to use the Danstar Windsor yeast as you want to have moderate attenuation, which will leave a relatively high final gravity.

The second time I brewed this I couldn't get Windsor so used Safale S-04 and it was no way near as good (watery) . The orange peel smells amazing in the fermenter but does dissipate during fermentation and just gives a subtle flavour in the final beer.

I think I used M&S Spanish oranges the first time and they seemed better than the cheaper ones I bought second time around. Go for a good mature orange, perhaps buy them the week before and let them ripen up more.

Recipe: Prince Of Orange TYPE: All Grain

Style: Special/Best/Premium Bitter

---RECIPE SPECIFICATIONS-----------------------------------------------

SRM: 21.7 EBC SRM RANGE: 9.8-31.5 EBC

IBU: 32.8 IBUs Tinseth IBU RANGE: 25.0-40.0 IBUs

OG: 1.043 SG OG RANGE: 1.040-1.048 SG

FG: 1.012 SG FG RANGE: 1.008-1.012 SG

BU:GU: 0.767 Calories: 443.5 kcal/l Est ABV: 4.4 %

EE%: 75.00 % Batch: 19.00 l Boil: 27.77 l BT: 90 Mins ( To ensure good hot break boil for 20-30 mins prior to first bittering hop addition at 60 mins )

Amt Name Type # %/IBU

3.00 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) Grain 1 84.7 %

0.36 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (118.2 EBC) Grain 2 10.2 %

0.03 kg Black (Patent) Malt (985.0 EBC) Grain 3 0.8 %

Total Grain Weight: 3.54 kg Total Hops: 56.00 g oz.

---MASH PROCESS------MASH PH:5.40 ------

Name Description Step Temperat Step Time

Mash In Add 8.84 l of water at 75.7 C 67.8 C 60 min

Mash Out Add 4.95 l of water at 92.0 C 75.6 C 10 min

---SPARGE PROCESS---

RECYCLE FIRST RUNNINGS & VERIFY GRAIN/MLT TEMPS: 22.2 C/22.2 C

Fly sparge with 18.32 l water at 75.6 C

---BOIL PROCESS-----------------------------

Est Pre_Boil Gravity: 1.032 SG Est OG: 1.043 SG

Amt Name Type # %/IBU

0.15 kg Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0.0 EBC) Sugar 4 4.2 %

20.00 g Challenger [6.45 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 16.9 IBUs

22.00 g Challenger [6.45 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 6 11.2 IBUs

0.5 Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 7 -

14.00 g Challenger [6.45 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 8 4.7 IBUs

0.75 oz Grated Orange Peel from 6 oranges(Boil 5.0 mins) Spice 9 -

---FERM PROCESS-----------------------------

Primary Start: - 14.00 Days at 21 C

Bottle Condition: - 14.00 Days at 20 C

Style Carb Range: 0.80-2.10 Vols

Bottling with 1.8 Volumes CO2: About 100 grams Malt Extract or 85 grams of beer enhancer

Saturday 20 August 2011

Brewing - Internet resources

Over the years I have collected hundreds of bookmarks on brewing related information. So I thought I'd save people new to brewing the effort of sorting through the drudge and share some of the best resources I've come across on the web.

Brewing Information

http://www.howtobrew.com/intro.html - Buy the book, but some of the content is here

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page - Good resource for reference

http://brewwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page - Another Wiki

http://byo.com/newbrew - Good collection of articles, blogs and resources

Blogs worth following

http://www.mrmalty.com/article.php - Jamil Zainasheff

http://northernbrewer.blogspot.com - see also BrewingTV

Video Resources

BrewingTV - With over 40 episodes already notched up, Michael Dawson, Jake Keeler & Chip Walton present a fantastic video brewing series. Lots of great info on techniques, interviews and brewery tours that really capture the essence of what home brewing is about. Also, a great insight into the ever growing & exciting US craft beer scene.

http://www.homebrewingvideo.com/category/all-videos/ - The episodes on extract brewing are worth watching.

Podcasts

You can get both these on iTunes as well, so I listen to these on my iPhone.

http://www.beersmith.com/blog/category/podcast/

http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/

Homebrew Suppliers (UK)

There are a number in the UK. The first three I have ordered from before. I predominately use the first two.

http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/

http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/

http://www.brew-it-yourself.co.uk/

http://themaltmiller.co.uk/index.php

http://www.colchesterhomebrew.co.uk