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1869 Simonds SB (AG#107)

Aug 6th, 2017

I forgot to blog AG#106, but it was based on the Sim Citra recipe with a dash of crystal for added colour, and hopped with Magnum for bittering, and equal amounts of Ahtanum and Simcoe for flavour and dry-hopping. It’s ok, but nothing special.

This recipe is a historic one from Ron Pattinson’s book. Except I’ve use up six different hop varieties to get the 150g I needed, so it’s actually a mix of Fuggles, Challenger, Perle, Northdown, Galena, and Target. And I didn’t have the suggested yeast, so I’ve used a sachet of Windsor (well, it’s still in the Thames Valley, isn’t it??)

Brewday details:

Length: 21 litres
OG: 1.050
FG:
ABV:

BeerXml File: 1869 Simonds SB

1869 Simonds SB

Style: English IPA
Length: 21 litres
Yeast: Windsor Yeast (Lallemand -)
OG: 1.058
FG: 1.015
ABV: 5.6 %
Colour: 12.4 EBC
Bitterness: 93.5 IBUs

Fermentables:

Name	Colour	Amount (kg)	%
Maris Otter (Crisp)	8	5.099	100
Total		5.099

Hops:

Name	Alpha	Form	Amount (g)	Time (mins)
Cluster	8.1	Leaf	50	60
Goldings, East Kent	5	Leaf	100	30

Comments:

Water 186ppm, 28ml CRS in 31 litres liquor.

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Tagged: Pale Ale · Windsor

Equanot (AG#105)

May 21st, 2017

by bryan.

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Another variant on the Sim Citra theme, this time with a new hop variety called Equanot, described as “unique mango, grapefruit and pineapple”.

Brewday details:

Length: 21 litres
OG:
FG:
ABV:

BeerXml File: Equanot

Equanot

Style: American IPA
Length: 20 litres
Yeast: Safale American (DCL/Fermentis US-05)
OG: 1.060
FG: 1.013
ABV: 6.2 %
Colour: 11.2 EBC
Bitterness: 80.5 IBUs

Fermentables:

Name	Colour	Amount (kg)	%
Flagon Pale Ale Malt	6	4.199	83
Munich Malt	18	0.419	8
Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann)	4	0.419	8
Total		5.039

Hops:

Name	Alpha	Form	Amount (g)	Time (mins)
Equanot	15.6	Pellet	15	First Wort
Equanot	15.6	Pellet	13	30
Equanot	15.6	Pellet	13	15
Equanot	15.6	Pellet	13	Aroma
Equanot	15.6	Pellet	25	Dry Hop

Comments:

Water 180ppm, 27ml CRS in 31 litres liquor.

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Tagged: Equanot · IPA · Mangrove Jack US West Coast · Pale Ale

CitraAce Jpn (AG#104)

May 1st, 2017

by bryan.

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A variant on the Sim Citra theme, since I didn’t have enough of a few things to do the usual recipe. Lots more Munich than normal, since I didn’t have enough pale malt. Bittered with Magnum, then equal parts of Citra and Sorachi Ace. It’ll be interesting to see how it works out…

Brewday details:

Length: 21 litres
OG: 1.054
FG:
ABV:

BeerXml File: CitraAce Jpn

CitraAce Jpn

Style: American IPA
Length: 21 litres
Yeast: Safale American (DCL/Fermentis US-05)
OG: 1.058
FG: 1.013
ABV: 6.0 %
Colour: 14.5 EBC
Bitterness: 60.5 IBUs

Fermentables:

Name	Colour	Amount (kg)	%
Flagon Pale Ale Malt	6	2.999	57
Munich Malt	18	1.799	34
Wheat, Torrified (Thomas Fawcett)	4	0.299	6
Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann)	4	0.149	3
Total		5.249

Hops:

Name	Alpha	Form	Amount (g)	Time (mins)
Magnum	14	Leaf	17	First Wort
Citra	12	Leaf	7	30
Sorachi Ace	12	Pellet	7	30
Citra	12	Leaf	7	15
Sorachi Ace	12	Leaf	7	15
Citra	12	Leaf	7	Aroma
Sorachi Ace	12	Leaf	7	Aroma
Citra	12	Leaf	25	Dry Hop

Comments:

Water 205ppm, 31ml CRS in 31 litres liquor.

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Tagged: Citra · IPA · Mangrove Jack US West Coast · Pale Ale · Sorachi Ace

Sim Citra (AG#103)

Mar 26th, 2017

by bryan.

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Back to this one again!

Brewday details:

Length: 21 litres
OG:
FG:
ABV:

Comments:
Same recipe as ever…

Hardness 193ppm, treatment with 30ml CRS, 8.9g gypsum, 3g calcium chloride, 3.3g epsom, 0.9g salt.

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Tagged: Citra · IPA · Pale Ale

Dead Pony Club (AG#102)

Mar 11th, 2017

by bryan.

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Who am I kidding? I’m just going to keep working through the DIY Dog book, with the occasional batch of Sim Citra or a leftovers brew…

Forgot to take most of my measurements today, other than the OG, but who cares?

Brewday details:

Length: 20 litres
OG: 1.039
FG:
ABV:

BeerXml File: Dead Pony Club

Dead Pony Club

Style: Special/Best/Premium Bitter
Length: 20 litres
Yeast: Safale American (DCL/Fermentis US-05)
OG: 1.042
FG: 1.007
ABV: 4.6 %
Colour: 14.8 EBC
Bitterness: 29.7 IBUs

Fermentables:

Name	Colour	Amount (kg)	%
Extra Pale Maris Otter (Crisp)	3	2.799	77
Caramalt (Thomas Fawcett)	30	0.629	17
Crystal Malt - 60L (Thomas Fawcett)	118	0.189	5
Total		3.619

Hops:

Name	Alpha	Form	Amount (g)	Time (mins)
Citra	12	Leaf	5	60
Simcoe	13	Leaf	5	60
Citra	12	Leaf	5	30
Simcoe	13	Leaf	5	30
Simcoe	13	Pellet	75	Dry Hop
Mosaic	11.8	Leaf	62	Dry Hop
Citra	12	Leaf	50	Dry Hop

Comments:

Fairly soft water, 189ppm.

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Tagged: Citra · IPA · Mangrove Jack US West Coast · Mosaic · Simcoe

Elvis Juice (AG#101)

Mar 6th, 2017

by bryan.

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I forgot to post this one when I brewed it as AG#95…

Brewday details:

Length: 20 litres
OG: 1.060
FG:
ABV:

BeerXml File: Elvis Juice

Elvis Juice

Style: American IPA
Length: 20 litres
Yeast: Safale American (DCL/Fermentis US-05)
OG: 1.063
FG: 1.010
ABV: 6.9 %
Colour: 7.2 EBC
Bitterness: 62.7 IBUs

Fermentables:

Name	Colour	Amount (kg)	%
Extra Pale Maris Otter (Crisp)	3	4.499	84
Carapils (Weyermann)	4	0.879	16
Total		5.379

Hops:

Name	Alpha	Form	Amount (g)	Time (mins)
Magnum	14	Leaf	3	60
Amarillo	11.2	Leaf	13	30
Simcoe	13	Leaf	13	30
Citra	12	Leaf	25	Aroma
Mosaic	11.8	Leaf	25	Aroma
Amarillo	11.2	Leaf	13	Aroma
Simcoe	13	Leaf	13	Aroma
Amarillo	11.2	Pellet	50	Dry Hop
Citra	12	Leaf	50	Dry Hop
Simcoe	13	Pellet	50	Dry Hop

Comments:

Forgot to write this post while brewing, so don’t have my notes for hardness and water treatment!
The grapefruitiness will come from some Cold Pressed Grapefruit Extract from The Malt Miller, rather than grapefruit peel as BrewDog suggest. That’s what I did last time and we really enjoyed the result (which is why I’m doing it again!). The entire 15ml bottle went in the 20 litre batch, post fermentation. If memory serves, I added it when I racked it into the keg, to minimise any aroma losses.

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Tagged: Amarillo · American Pale · BrewDog · Citra · Grapefruit · IPA · Magnum · Mangrove Jack US West Coast · Mosaic · Simcoe

Centenary (AG#100)

Feb 12th, 2017

by bryan.

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A special one to mark my 100th all-grain brew. Aimed at 10% and 100IBU – or thereabouts. Mainly hopped with Centennial (as seems appropriate!) with dashes of Magnum, Simcoe, Amarillo and Chinook for good measure. And I’ll decide on the dry-hops when I get there.

Brewday details:

Length: 20 litres
OG: 1.084
FG: 1.009
ABV: 9.9%

BeerXml File: Centenary

Centenary

Style: Imperial IPA
Length: 20 litres
Yeast: Safale American (DCL/Fermentis US-05)
OG: 1.092
FG: 1.011
ABV: 10.8
Colour: 17.3 EBC
Bitterness: 96.0 IBUs

Fermentables:

Name	Colour	Amount (kg)	%
Maris Otter (Crisp)	8	6.749	92
Brown Sugar, Light	16	0.599	8
Total		7.349

Hops:

Name	Alpha	Form	Amount (g)	Time (mins)
Centennial	10	Leaf	10	First Wort
Magnum	14	Leaf	10	First Wort
Centennial	10	Leaf	20	30
Simcoe	13	Leaf	15	30
Centennial (pellet)	10	Pellet	22	15
Centennial	10	Leaf	18	15
Amarillo	11.2	Leaf	10	15
Centennial (pellet)	10	Pellet	40	Aroma
Chinook (pellet)	13	Pellet	10	Aroma
Centennial (pellet)	10	Pellet	50	Dry Hop

Comments:

Hardness 205ppm again, so in 31 litres of liquor we have 31ml CRS, 8.6g gypsum, 2.5g calcium chloride, 3g epsom, 0.8g salt.

2017-02-27: I gave it a week at 19C then a week at 21C, and it’s finished at 1.009 and tasting great. Dropped in dry-hops of 50g Centennial and 10g Nelson Sauvin, and plan to crash-cool on Friday in preparation for bottling.

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Tagged: Amarillo · Centennial · Chinook · Double IPA · Imperial IPA · IPA · Mangrove Jack US West Coast · Simcoe

Jet Black Heart (AG#99)

Jan 22nd, 2017

by bryan.

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Ok, I haven’t stopped with the BrewDog recipes just yet… But it’s definitely a stout time of year and this one is well-liked by my wonderful wife!

Brewday details:

Length: 20 litres
OG: 1.056
FG:
ABV:

BeerXml File: Jet Black Heart

Jet Black Heart

Style: Sweet Stout
Length: 20 litres
Yeast: Safale American (DCL/Fermentis US-05)
OG: 1.056
FG: 1.015
ABV: 5.4 %
Colour: 77.6 EBC
Bitterness: 42.6 IBUs

Fermentables:

Name	Colour	Amount (kg)	%
Pale Ale (Crisp)	6	2.499	53
Brown Malt	150	0.399	8
Oats, Flaked	2	0.379	8
Milk Sugar (Lactose)	0	0.379	8
Crystal Extra Dark - 120L (Crisp)	236	0.249	5
Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann)	4	0.249	5
Black Malt (Thomas Fawcett)	1300	0.199	4
Carafa I	664	0.199	4
Crystal Dark - 77L (Crisp)	148	0.199	4
Total		4.759

Hops:

Name	Alpha	Form	Amount (g)	Time (mins)
Magnum	14	Leaf	15	60
Sorachi Ace	12	Leaf	15	30

Comments:

Hardness 205ppm, water treatment in 30 litres liquor of 20ml CRS, 8.8g calcium chloride, 4g salt, using the “stout” profile on Jim’s Water Treatment Calculator.

Pre-prepared for today’ brew: water measured out and on a time-clock to start heating at 9am, and all the grains measured out (and the oats toasted) ready to go.

The recipe is slightly higher in OG than the DIY Dog recipe, as I rounded the 190g and 380g quantities to 200g and 400g as my hanging scales only has graduations in 50g increments. The oats and lactose remain at their original 380g, mind you.

Not sure why, but the default for the lactose in BeerSmith had it marked as a fermentable, which raised the OG by quite a bit, despite the description for the checkbox being “This ingredient is not fermentable (i.e. lactose)”. So I checked said checkbox and got the OG that the recipe was calling for.

During the first sparge I screwed up (again) by leaving the tap on the copper open. It could be worse; I think I only (!) lost 3 litres of precious wort. When the second sparge has finished I’ll know for sure and have to add some liquor and probably a bit of DME.

We’re ok after all – the OG ended up being 1.054 at 18 litres, so I’m just going to leave it along and neither add liquor nor DME.

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Tagged: Lactose · Magnum · Milk Stout · Sorachi Ace · Stout · Sweet Stout · US-05

Zeitgeist (AG#98)

Dec 10th, 2016

by bryan.

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I might stop just working my way through the Brewdog recipe book, but not just yet… This is a black lager that we got a couple of bottles of recently and rather liked. Looks like it’s quite an old recipe by Brewdog standards – they first brewed it in 2008.

Yeast is Mangrove Jack‘s Bohemian Lager Yeast, since The Malt Miller doesn’t carry the recipe’s recommended S189. No idea if this is a suitable substitute, but its description suggests that it should work:

A bottom-fermenting lager strain suitable for European lager and pilsner style beers. This yeast will produce soft, delicate and balanced beers with a dry and clean palate.

Suitable for German/ Bohemian pilsners, all lager styles, German bocks and more

The recipe calls for 15C ferment, and the yeast description says “For best results, ferment at 10-15 degrees C”, so we’ll go for that.

Brewday details:

Length: 22 litres
OG: 1.046
FG:
ABV:

BeerXml File: Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist

Style: Schwarzbier (Black Beer)
Length: 20 litres
Yeast: SafLager German Lager (DCL/Fermentis S-189)
OG: 1.050
FG: 1.010
ABV: 5.2 %
Colour: 53.7 EBC
Bitterness: 32.7 IBUs

Fermentables:

Name	Colour	Amount (kg)	%
Munich (Dingemans)	11	2.699	62
Pilsen (Dingemans)	3	1.129	26
Caramalt (Thomas Fawcett)	30	0.279	6
Chocolate (Crisp)	1241	0.229	5
Total		4.339

Hops:

Name	Alpha	Form	Amount (g)	Time (mins)
Cascade	7	Leaf	28	90
Cascade	7	Leaf	28	5

Comments:

Hardness 216ppm, water treatment in 32 litres liquor of 33ml CRS, 9.5g gypsum, 2.4g calcium chloride, 3.2g epsom, 0.9g salt. Not sure why I used my usual “dry pale ale” setting for water rather than a more sensible “porter”, but hey…

Ended up with 22 litres at the end of the boil at 1.046, which is 76% efficiency. I do still need to knock a couple of litres off in my BeerSmith settings, as I’m still typically ending up with a little more wort than aimed for, even if efficiency is good.

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Tagged: Black Lager · Cascade · Lager · Mangrove Jack Bohemian Lager

Belgian Pale (AG#97)

Dec 4th, 2016

by bryan.

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Same recipe as the last two last times – now with home-grown coriander seeds.

Brewday details:

Length: 21 litres
OG: 1.047
FG:
ABV:

BeerXml File: Belgian Pale

Belgian Pale Ale (AG#83)

Style: Belgian Pale Ale
Length: 21 litres
Yeast: Belgian Ale (White Labs WLP550)
OG: 1.048
FG: 1.004
ABV: 5.8 %
Colour: 14.6 EBC
Bitterness: 29.2 IBUs

Fermentables:

Name	Colour	Amount (kg)	%
Pilsen (Dingemans)	3	1.402	35
Munich (Dingemans)	11	1.199	30
Dememera Sugar	4	0.599	15
Aromatic Malt (Dingemans)	37	0.499	12
Caravienne Malt	43	0.299	7
Total		4.002

Hops:

Name	Alpha	Form	Amount (g)	Time (mins)
Tettnang	4.5	Leaf	20	90
Perle	9.6	Leaf	10	90
Saaz	3	Leaf	20	15

Comments:

Same water treatment as yesterday, as I prepped the water yesterday to save time today. Mash was cooler than planned, as I measured the grains out yesterday and left them in the garage, so they were a tad on the cool side, and I forgot to take their temperature and plug it in to BeerSmith. Never mind…

No Tettnanger left at home, so I replace it with an equal weight of Saaz and slightly bumped up the Perle.

Yeast this time is Mangrove Jack’s M41 Belgian Pale Ale yeast – a dry one. Based on this blog post, I’m going to pitch at 20C and bring it up 1C per day until we reach 24C.

Forgot to take the post-boil volume, but the gravity is an almost spot-on 1.047, so my guess is that there’s a little more wort than aimed for.

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Tagged: Belgian · M41 Belgian Ale · Pale Ale · Perle · Saaz

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1869 Simonds SB (AG#107)

1869 Simonds SB

Equanot (AG#105)

Equanot

CitraAce Jpn (AG#104)

CitraAce Jpn

Sim Citra (AG#103)

Dead Pony Club (AG#102)

Dead Pony Club

Elvis Juice (AG#101)

Elvis Juice

Centenary (AG#100)

Centenary

Jet Black Heart (AG#99)

Jet Black Heart

Zeitgeist (AG#98)

Zeitgeist

Belgian Pale (AG#97)

Belgian Pale Ale (AG#83)

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