As someone who grew up in a seaside tourist town during the 1980s, this beer just had to be named after a classic shoot-em-up! It’s the same grain bill as the Kipling (South Pacific) Pale Ale, but with Galaxy hops instead of Nelson Sauvin, reduced in strength slightly to 1.045, and with Nottingham instead of US-05 (as I haven’t got any at the moment!)
- Length: 26 litres
- Yeast: Nottingham
- OG 11.6Bx = 1.045
- FG 5.4Bx = 1.007
- ABV 5.1%
Recipe:
| Fermentable | Colour | lb: oz | Grams | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pale Malt | 5 EBC | 10 lbs. 1.7 oz | 4590 grams | 85% |
| Munich Malt | 20 EBC | 0 lbs. 14.2 oz | 405 grams | 7.5% |
| Torrefied Wheat | 4 EBC | 0 lbs. 14.2 oz | 405 grams | 7.5% |
| Hop Variety | Type | Alpha | Time | lb: oz | grams | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galaxy | Whole | 15.1 % | 60 mins | 0 lbs. 0.6 oz | 16 grams | 19.3% |
| Galaxy | Whole | 15.1 % | 30 mins | 0 lbs. 0.6 oz | 16 grams | 19.3% |
| Irish Moss | Whole | 0 % | 10 mins | 0 lbs. 0.1 oz | 3 grams | 3.6% |
| Galaxy | Whole | 15.1 % | 0 mins | 0 lbs. 1.7 oz | 48 grams | 57.8% |
| Final Volume: | 25 | Litres |
| Original Gravity: | 1.045 | |
| Final Gravity: | 1.010 | |
| Alcohol Content: | 4.5% | ABV |
| Total Liquor: | 35.9 | Litres |
| Mash Liquor: | 13.5 | Litres |
| Mash Efficiency: | 70 | % |
| Bitterness: | 41 | EBU |
| Colour: | 9 | EBC |
Comments:
2011-10-25: Slightly warm start, as I didn’t have the(second) temperature controller wired up fully until this evening, so it’s been running a couple of degrees warm for the first 48 hours – with any luck, not too many off flavours as a result… It’s now all wired up properly with both fridge and tube heater keeping 21C.
2011-10-31: Down to 5.4Bx = 1.007, so another low finish. Maybe I need to mash a little warmer? It’s tasting good, fresh and a bit different to the South Pacific. I dropped the dry hops (48g of galaxy) in yesterday (Sunday), and I think I’ll crash cool it in a couple more days.
2011-11-07: Bottled 12, 5 litres in mini-keg, and the balance in the barrel. Ended up with about 23 litres of beer after the hops drank a bit and with the cloudy dregs I left in the FV. After crash cooling for a few days (Wed 02 Nov, if memory serves) then fining with gelatine on Saturday (2 days ago), it’s looking pretty clear at this stage, so should drop clear quite quickly. With any luck it will be drinkable in only a week or two! …and it smells lovely!
2011-11-12: Crafty 1/2 pint while brewing the Vorticist Ale. The bottles have dropped clear, the 1/2 from the barrel hasn’t. It’s had 5 days to carbonate, and it’s all now in the large fermenting fridge at 12C (along with all the bottles from the Fat Frog (a.k.a. the Thornbridge Oatmeal Stout) and the Autumn Glory. Oh, and it tastes bloomin’ marvelous! Up there with the Kipling, certainly.
