AG#70 – Ta Moko
Posted on: December 18, 2011
- In: Brewing
- 10 Comments
Ta Moko – This is a tweaked re-brew of AG#16 Once Were Warriors The hopping is just about identical but I’ve changed the malts a little and dropped the ABV to 4% for a nice easy drinker.
The original was very tasty with a chalky bitterness, I’m hoping for the same again.
Some may have to forgive my beer naming, Wikipedia tells me there is a more acceptable term for Maori designed Tattoo which is Kirituhi meaning “Drawn Skin”. I have my own piece of ‘Drawn Skin’ on my thigh which was done in Auckland at www.mokoink.com
Fermentables:
Lager Malt – 80%
Carapils (Weyermann) – 10%
Wheat Malt – 8%
Cara Munich Type III – 2%
Hops:
Pacific Gem – 14.6 % @ 60 mins – 15g (FWH)
Pacific Gem – 14.6 % @ 15 mins – 10g
Nelson Sauvin – 12.6 % @ 10 mins- 50g
Nelson Sauvin – 12.6 % @ 0 mins – 50g (80°c for 20-30mins)
Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.040
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 3.9% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.4 Litres
Mash Liquor: 9.9 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 52 EBU (25% Hop Utilisation)
Colour: 8 EBC
Yeast: Safale US-05
Mash: 67°c for 60mins (I got 85% Mash efficiency)
Weighing out the Calcium Chloride & Magnesium Sulphate:
Malt was at 9°c this morning:
Mash temp 67°c:
Pacific Gem and lots of Nelson Sauvin hops:
Sparge running into copper:
The 10 min Nelson Sauvin addition, hops all sticky and smelling lovely:
Break material forming while cooling with the Copper Immersion Cooler:
OG: 1040 will do me, my neighbour just gave me a longer (hence hopefully more accurate) hydrometer:
All done and in the fermentation fridge at 19.5°c
*Bottled 28th Dec ’11 – with 70g white sugar, tasting good enough to drink from the FV, very clean and bags of Nelson Sauvin Flavour, this will be spot on once its carbonated up 
*1st Jan ’12 – Very very early taster, Cat-Piss, Grapes, Muskiness, little bit of Kiwi maybe, classic Nelson Sauvin.
Thanks again to Rob at Hopzine for another glowing review:
10 Responses to "AG#70 – Ta Moko"
January 1, 2012 at 4:53 pm
[...] to FV: Pretty much hit my predicted OG, yeast pitched (still smelling of Nelson Sauvin hops from AG#70, if it wasn’t that I’ve just ruined an entire brew!) Copper is being very slow to run [...]
February 6, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Great blog … have been inspired to build the FV mash tun and temp controlled fridge… Tried it all out last weekend with your TT Landlord clone – fermenting nicely.
Would love to try this recipe next (tried some NZ hop beer recently) – but where do you buy (good quality) Pacific Gem and Nelson Sauvin in the UK? Cheers
February 6, 2012 at 6:50 pm
http://www.themaltmiller.co.uk would be a good bet
I didn’t like the yeast I used on the TTL, would have been better with Safale s-04 or something.
February 13, 2012 at 10:16 am
Thanks for the link – had not see these guys before. Will order now.
Off topic for this post, but what was wrong with the wyeast 1469…? Behaviour or flavour? I have used the same one and it is still fermenting away…. Thanks again
February 13, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Flavour, don’t ask me what exactly this is some time back now.
March 9, 2012 at 11:48 am
Brewed it… fantastic flavours. Mine fermented out a bit low (FG 1007 after 6 days at 19c) but still tastes great though. Thanks for the recipe.
OK – sod GW and his BYOBRA. Which of your other beers should I try next…? Any particular favourites ?
March 9, 2012 at 2:18 pm
You could always just change the hops and keep the same Malt bill. Glad the beer’s gone down well
August 4, 2012 at 3:44 pm
[...] re-brew with minor tweaks for hop Alphas and added 5% Flaked Oats. The last version of this beer is here. If this beer is as good as the last brew it won’t last long and is as good a reason as any [...]
December 28, 2012 at 6:40 pm
[...] brew it again! I hope the next crop of Nelson Sauvin has as much Catty-punch as when I brewed Ta Moko for the first time. AG #85 – HopZilla IPA I will do another Heavy on the Dry Hops double IPA, I [...]
December 18, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Good looking beer, but put your thighs away!