My last beer, the League Vortex was really good and disappeared quickly so I was going to do it again but last minute I decided to do a few modifications to beef it up a tad so this will be a slightly different beer – more grain, more hops, more colour. Last time around I had the recipe’s 200g of hops plus an additional 16g that I added for bittering. This time I’ve kept that bittering addition but made it 25g along with 300g of flavour/aroma hops. For the sake of economics I went with 3 x 100g packets of hope so we have 100g each of Cascade, Sauvin and Citra instead of 50g each of those three plus Mosaic.
Brew date: 28th June
strike water: 20L @ 74.3°
mash start: 68.7°
mash middle: 67°
end mash: 66.5°
sparge water: 11.5L
Vol in kettle: 29L
water additions added to sparge water
koppafloc @ 16 mins
30 min boil
Gravity after mash: 12 Brix = 1.048
Hops stand 30 mins starting at 97° going down to 74°
OG: 13.7 Brix = 1.056
Cooled to 17.8°
Rehydrated yeast @ 30°, cooled to 21° with aliquots of wort prior to pitching
Dry hopped on: 3rd July
Kegged on 12th July
FG: 1.012
Style Information
Name:
American Pale Ale
Recipe Type:
All Grain
Grains & Extracts
| Pilsner |
3 kg |
|
| Gladfield Munich Malt |
1 kg |
|
| Wheat Malt |
0.45 kg |
|
| Gladfield Gladiator (Dextrine) |
0.3 kg |
|
| Gladfield Sour Grapes |
0.3 kg |
|
| Gladfield Toffee Malt |
0.3 kg |
|
Hops
| Southern Cross |
0.025 kg |
13% |
0.325 |
20 |
|
| Cascade |
0.015 kg |
7.8% |
0.117 |
5 |
|
| Citra |
0.015 kg |
11.1% |
0.1665 |
5 |
|
| Nelson Sauvin |
0.015 kg |
11.5% |
0.1725 |
5 |
|
| Cascade |
0.035 kg |
6.3% |
0.2205 |
0 |
|
| Citra |
0.035 kg |
11.1% |
0.3885 |
0 |
|
| Nelson Sauvin |
0.035 kg |
11.5% |
0.4025 |
0 |
|
| Cascade |
0.05 kg |
7.8% |
0.39 |
0 |
|
| Citra |
0.05 kg |
11.1% |
0.555 |
0 |
|
| Nelson Sauvin |
0.05 kg |
11.5% |
0.575 |
0 |
|
Adjuncts
| Calcium Chloride |
Water Agent |
Boil |
0.0033 kg |
0 |
|
| Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) |
Water Agent |
Boil |
0.0063 kg |
0 |
|
| Lactic Acid |
Water Agent |
Boil |
0 kg |
0 |
|
Yeasts
Mash Steps
| Saccharification Rest |
Infusion |
45 |
68 C |
Boil
Amount:
25.2 liters
Water Description:
Time:
30 minutes
Target Batch Size:
24 liters
Profile
Estimated OG:
1.051
Estimated FG:
1.013
Estimated ABV:
4.98%
Actual OG:
1.056
Actual FG:
1.012
Actual ABV:
5.77%
