Archive for April 2012
AG#77 – UK Cascade
Posted April 7, 2012
on:UK Cascade – Trying out a Single Hop UK-grown Cascade brew. Using up the end of a sack of Lager Malt and thought I’d throw in some nice German Munich and give it some body with the Carapils, and I’d just got some Melanoidin malt so in went some of that 😉
The UK Cascade hops were bought from Charles Farams as a 5kg Freshpak, so I’ve got a few spare & Vac-packed if anyone wants some.
Fermentables:
Lager Malt – 67.5%
Munich Malt II (Weyermann) – 10.5%
Carapils (Weyermann) – 9.3%
Munich Malt I (Weyermann) – 7%
Melanoidin Malt – 5.6%
Hops:
UK Cascade – 5.7 % 60 mins – 50g (First Wort Hopped)
UK Cascade – 5.7 % 15 mins – 40g
UK Cascade – 5.7 % 0 mins – 40g (20-30min steep)
Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.041
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 4% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.6 Litres
Mash Liquor: 10.3 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 39 EBU
Colour: 13 EBC
Yeast: Safale us-05
Mashed at 67°c (actually aimed for 68°c but what the hey) mash duration was well passed 90mins as I was out with the dogs, and i ended up with over 87% Mash Efficiency.
The Mash, you can really smell the Melanoidin Malt:
Sparging Temp in the HLT:
First Wort Hops and first runnings, I used the Sweet Pale Ale profile in the GW Calc for my Liquor Treatment:
A goodly amount of UK Cascade @ 15mins:
Steeping, Hop soup, a fair amount of seeds in these uk Cascade:
Near as damn it, think the Refractometer said 10.4 brix so OG 1040:
Ran off to FV in quick-sticks, lovely clear wort (why I didn’t make a mesh hop-stopper sooner I don’t know!) and pitched US-05:
Easy brewday, I bottled AG#76 after brewing 🙂 Yeast pitched at 20°c and put in fermentation Fridge set at 20°c
*13th Apr ’12 – Had a little trial jar taste, Gravity down to 1010-ish, some flavour a bit like what I got in my Revolutions Comp Brew that I didn’t enter, I feel this may be either the Re-packaged yeast I used (most probable) or the fermenting bucket is contaminated.
*14th Apr ’12 – Had another taste in a glass rather than a trial jar, I was maybe a bit quick to judge though there is something underlying. I shall stick to original packaged Safale us-05 from now on I think, maybe it had been in my fridge too long before pitching.
*Bottled 21st Apr ’12 – with 80g of white sugar, I actually wonder if the flavour I’m getting is the Melanoidin Malt… I’ll have to get someone in the know to have a taste and tell me its pants! 😉
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Yesterday 31st Mar ’12 was the second Northern Craft Brewers meeting at Saltaire Brewery, this time we held a competition for the best English-Hopped IPA, with First, Second, Third & Forth prizes / certificates with two Highly Commended mentions.
There was also a Cask ale prize for the best home-brewed cask ale, we had an amazing and varied selection of IPA’s from both Northern & Midlands Craft brewers.
While Judging was commencing Shane did a 15 minute talk on India Pale Ales and excellent and romantic exposé of one of the most revered yet simple beers in British History.
We had home brewers from as far afield as Brighton, Cambridge, Durham & Newcastle and a large local contingent… there must have been over 50-60 of us which was a brilliant turn-out.
I’d best not forget the £400 we raised from beer-donations which we will share between these Charities:
www.candlelighters.org.uk
www.loros.com
www.martinhouse.org.uk
www.zephaniah.org.uk
www.sadsuk.org.uk
Some of the crowd at the Brewery:
Someone had to do the pulling of pints, so myself, my wife and my colleague and his wife were running the bars:
The competition entries all labelled up and expertly organised by Shane:
Judging begins, we had National Guild judges, CAMRA judges, and Bloggers Zak Avery (BeerRitz.co.uk) & Rob Derbyshire (Hopzine.com):
Allan Gayton with his Rudyard IPA on the bar, a fine beer that might have been better on the upstairs bar:
The Trophy Tankards kindly provided by Tony the Head Brewer & Owner of Saltaire Brewery:
Best Cask beer was won by Dave a local home-brewer from Saltaire:
Steve won first prize for his English IPA:
Second prize was won by Tom:
I collected third prize:
Ray came forth place:
Highley Commended were Karl(pictured) and Ron:
Some of the crowd watching the Prize giving by Bill:
Here’s my Trophy Tankard, Certificate & Malt Miller Voucher:
Thanks to Emma my wife for taking the photos.
Its been a great event and looks to have been appreciated by all who attended and entered their beers in the competition, Hopefully we’ll see you all again, same-ish time / same place, next year…
For further reading on the subject of India Pale Ales see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Pale_Ale
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.co.uk
http://www.durdenparkbeer.org.uk
The full results were:
1st Steve Syson MCB PrizeTankard and £20 Malt Miller Voucher
2Nd Tom Dobson (Brighton) PrizeTankard and £15 Malt Miller Voucher
3rd Adrian Chapman NCB PrizeTankard and £10 Malt Miller Voucher
4th Dr Ray Carson MCB £5 Malt Miller Voucher
5th Karl Clarke NCB Highly Commended
6th Ron Allison MCB Highly Commended
7th Neil Gardner NCB Highly Commended
8th Mathew Darcy NCB Highly Commended
9th Nigel Atak NCB Highly Commended
Also the Full Results of the Cask Peoples Vote were:
David Bishop (Tomahawk IPA) 1st
Adrian Chapman (Is it because I is Black) 2nd Joint
Rob Derbyshire (C Bomb) 2nd Joint
N Gardner (Achillies) 4th
Barley Bottom (Black Beards Revenge) 5th
Allan Gayton (Rudyard) 6th
Here are the letters of thanks from the charities, thank you to all who came and had a few pints 🙂
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdtnc/sets/72157629542248100/