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This is an attempt at Brewdog’s Trashy Blonde and the recipe started life as Sara Carter’s (Scarer) www.brewdog.com/trashy_blonde
This will be my first experience of Pellet hops with the Motueka, I’m going to ferment it with Safale us-05 and Mashing at 68c (though I aimed for 69c, even after a pre-heat, empty and refill of the Mash tun I still lost almost 5c from 83c in the HLT), Mash for a minimum of 60mins.
I may dry hop this with 13g of Ahtanum in the fermenter… to be decided.

Trashy Blonde

Fermentables:
Pale Malt – 70%
Caramalt – 10%
Munich Malt – 10%
Wheat Malt – 10%

Hops:
Ahtanum Whole @ 60 mins – 8g (FWH)
Motueka (B Saaz) Pellet @ 60 mins – 8g (FWH)
Simcoe Whole @ 60 mins – 8g (FWH)
Motueka (B Saaz) Pellet 6.8 % 10 mins – 22g
Simcoe Whole @ 10 mins – 23g
Ahtanum Whole @ 10 mins – 22g
Simcoe Whole @ 0 mins – 16g (80c Steep for 20-30mins)
Ahtanum Whole @ 0 mins – 16g (80c Steep for 20-30mins)
Motueka (B Saaz) Pellet @ 0 mins – 16g (80c Steep for 20-30mins)

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.041
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 4% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.3 Litres
Mash Liquor: 9.5 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 80 %
Bitterness: 44 EBU
Colour: 11 EBC

The Malts and liquor treatment salts:

Mash Tun wrapped up:

Todays Kiwi & Yank hops:

Leaf and pellet hops:

80c Steep hops going in:

Running to fermenter, the clearest wort I’ve made for a long while, the break material just dropped like a stone:

Looks like about 1040, Refractometer said 11.75 Brix which is about 1045 bit high but I’m not going to worry about it:

I’ll clean the copper tomorrow, there’s beer to be drunk….

After 7 days in the Fermenter I dry hopped this with:
15g Ahtanum
10g Motueka (Pellets)
10g Simcoe

*Bottled 10th Jan ’11 with 65g sugar