A friend really liked a Jasmine IPA he had when he was in Vietnam (brewed by Pasteur Street), as asked if I could do something similar. I wasn’t sure how to use jasmine, but after a bit of reading around I settled on making something inspired by this recipe from the Homebrew Talk forum.
Grist is pretty close to my normal pale ale grain bill, tweaked to match what I had in stock, and the hops are German as the Pasteur Street description is that they used Hallertauer at the end, but I don’t have any so I went with Perle and Saaz. Steeped with Amarillo, as that’s what the Homebrew Talk recipe went for (and I like them and have plenty in stock!)
Brewday details:
- Length: 21 litres
- OG: 1.054
- FG: 1.006
- ABV: 6.3%
BeerXml File: Jasmine IPA
Jasmine IPA
- Style: American IPA
- Length: 20 litres
- Yeast:
- OG: 1.062
- FG: 1.016
- ABV: 6.1 %
- Colour: 13.5 EBC
- Bitterness: 47.0 IBUs
| Name | Colour | Amount (kg) | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pale Ale (Crisp) | 6 | 4.499 | 85 |
| Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann) | 4 | 0.399 | 8 |
| Biscuit (Dingemans) | 44 | 0.299 | 6 |
| Caramalt (Thomas Fawcett) | 30 | 0.099 | 2 |
| Total | 5.299 | ||
Hops:
| Name | Alpha | Form | Amount (g) | Time (mins) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magnum | 14 | Leaf | 15 | 60 |
| Amarillo | 11.2 | Pellet | 10 | 15 |
| Perle | 9.6 | Leaf | 10 | 15 |
| Tettnang | 4.5 | Leaf | 10 | 15 |
| Amarillo | 11.2 | Pellet | 10 | Aroma |
Comments:
Smelled marvellous when I added the dried jasmine, so I hope the aroma and flavour last through to the glass.
Um… as I type this I realised that I forgot the 15 minute Amarillo that’s in the recipe. Never mind… (I always seem to forget something!)
Looks like I ended up with 21 litres at 1.054, which matches a BeerSmith efficiency of 70%. A little lower than normal, but I’m happy with mid-5%s as a final beer; makes it a little more sessionable than one north of 6%! Not sure why my efficiency suffered today, I’m normally in the mid-70%s, nothing unusual happened. Maybe I screwed up the measuring of something – wouldn’t be the first time. Doesn’t help that my scales can’t be zeroed all the way down when my measuring bucket is hanging from them: my zero point is 500g.
2017-10-03: Finished fermenting and looking pretty clear; temp dropped to 12C while the other beer in the same fridge dry-hops. Tastes really good, and there’s still definite jasmine aroma and flavour. FG was 1.006, so that’s 6.3% ABV, which is a little strong, but might help it last a little longer (yeh, right!)
