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Altitudinous Cable – I’m hoping for a ‘MagicRockBrewing Highwire / PartizanBrewing Columbus Chinook Cascade IPA‘ type of thing, bags of flavour and seriously dry hopped.
My 100th All-Grain Brewday was supposed to be an all-Fuggle Double IPA with a great big Fuggle Dry Hop, have beery mates round and cook food / drink beer / forget the Protafloc etc We’ll have to plan that for another time as I wanted something that will be distinctly hoppy with in-yer-face dry hopping, so what better beer to try imitate than MagicRock’s Highwire, a beauty of a beer at only 5.5%.

Fermentables:
Lager Malt – 82.5%
Caramalt – 8%
Vienna Malt – 5%
Munich Type I (Weyermann) – 4.5%

Hops:
Magnum – 12.7 % @ 60 mins – 27g (FWH)
Magnum – 12.7 % @ 30 mins – 27g
Chinook – 12.5 % @ 0 mins – 43g (30min Steep)
Cascade – 7.9 % @ 0 mins – 43g (30min Steep)
Columbus – 16.5 % @ 0 mins – 43g (30min Steep)

Dry Hops:
Chinook Pellets
Cascade Pellets
Columbus Pellets
(see later *edits for Dry hop additions)

Final Volume: 25 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.055
Final Gravity: 1.013
Alcohol Content: 5.5% ABV
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 55 EBU
Colour: 10 EBC
Mash: 69c for 60mins
Yeast: Safale us-05

The malts, and a Teaspoon of Calcium Chloride (rough arse stylee):

First Wort Hops:

A healthy amount of flameout hops:

The OG before liquoring back to 1055:

Easy brewday, did a bit of a Garage tidy while I was at it.
I only gave the mash 1 Tsp of Calcium Chloride as I’ve had some comment on the dryness of my homebrew, so no other liquor salts for this brew just as an experiment.

*22nd May ’13 – Gravity at 1014, first dry hopping addition of 3g/litre Cascade, Columbus, Chinook (75g in total) it will be left at 20°c for 2-3 days, I’ll give the FV a stir tomorrow.

*24th May ’13 – Steady gravity, Tasting good but still subtle so…. chilling to 17°c and dry hopped with just less than 5g/litre, 24g Cascade, 50g Columbus, 50g Chinook. Again I will stir the FV tomorrow. I may do a third dry hop 😉

*27th May ’13 – The 3rd Dry Hop: 24g Columbus, 22g Chinook, 21g Amarillo (2.65g/litre in total), so all in all its been dry hopped with 10.65g per Litre of beer. Tastes a bit raw.

*1st Jun ’13 – Bottled with 120g White Sugar, I lost 3 Litres to the hop pellets/yeast, tasting pretty good has some rough edges but nothing that a week or two in bottle won’t cure. At this stage I would think that an almost 100% Chinook dry hop would be closer to a MagicRock/Partizan beer.

Syphoning the beer off the hops to bottling bucket:
The remaining sludge in the FV, the thought goes through my mind… I wonder what would happen if I brewed another beer and dumped the wort straight onto a mess of pellets & yeast like this?:

*8th Jun ’13 – early taster, its carbonated up just right, the bitterness pretty good, the dry hopping is going to take a week or two more to round off and loose the rough edges, cloudy as heck thanks to all those hops!

*14th Jun ’13 – Another taster, hops settling down a bit, strong bitterness until the pallet re-sets, I think I was right saying a bit more time 🙂

*13th Aug ’13 – Some time later, this is smoothing out but keeping its intense hoppyness and a nice sort of flat-tingle-spice-bitterness, it finishes with the body coming back in as the hops linger in the mouth. Next time I’ll not leave the hops in as long and maybe concentrate on dry hopping with just Cascade & Chinook.