Posts Tagged ‘Experimental 366’
AG#134 – Trapped Nerve Red
Posted on: May 13, 2015
AG#134 – Trapped Nerve Red – I’m off work due to a trapped nerve in my lower back, so thought I’d do some low impact homebrewing. Its based around an old recipe from 2011 which turned out a pretty good red-ish in colour and had bags of malty sweet toffee body making the hops all juicy-fruit yumminess! So a fine excuse to use up some open packs of hops in the freezer 🙂
Fermentables:
Pale Malt – 78%
Vienna Malt – 10%
Crystal Malt, Extra Dark – 4%
Caragold – 4%
Crystal Malt – 4%
Hops:
Triskel Whole 4.82 % @ 60 mins – 22g (FWH)
NZ Cascade Whole 8.5 % @ 15 mins – 10g
Experimental 366 Whole 15.7 % @ 15 mins – 10g
Amarillo Whole 10.9 % @ 15 mins – 10g
Citra Whole 15.0 % @ 0 mins – 9g (20min Hop Stand at 80c)
Amarillo Whole 10.9 % @ 0 mins – 31g (20min Hop Stand at 80c)
Riwaka Whole 5.9 % @ 0 mins – 34g (20min Hop Stand at 80c)
NZ Cascade Whole 8.5 % @ 0 mins – 66g (20min Hop Stand at 80c)
Experimental 366 Whole 15.7 % @ 0 mins – 49g (20min Hop Stand at 80c)
Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.057
Final Gravity: 1.014
Alcohol Content: 5.6% ABV
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 28 EBU
Colour: 50 EBC
Yeast: Safale us-05
Mash: 69c for at least an hour depending on how lazy you want to be.
Boil: 60mins
I drilled a few extra holes in this before I used it:
The Malts:
First Runnings onto the Hops:
A Rather Large Stack of hops:
Yeast to pitch after a good aeration:
Took things steady, the only heavy thing to move was the full FV which Emma helped me with.
*Bottled: 24th May ’15 with 80g priming sugar.
I went down to see Shane at www.cheshirebrewhouse.co.uk yesterday to do a collaboration brew.
The brew was to be a Black IPA made with, among other things, Weyermann Sinamar Carafa Extract and Warrior hops, we stuck to a simple malt bill with Pale malt and a little Munich and adding sugar at the end of boil to take us into the 6.7ABV area.
The dry goods in the Mash Tun, Shane Underlets to mash in, this was a first for me as I’ve always used a Hydrator so the malt and liquor are already mixing as they hit the tun. For those that don’t know, Shane built all his brewkit from second-hand vessels and insulated and clad them himself:
The FV’s:
Shane paddling hard at the mash:
All the FV’s have a name, this is the temp controller belonging to Gertrude:
Underback and pump:
Sparge arm spinning:
Shane rubbing up the 10minute hops:
This is his take on a hop filter (Used to be Hop-back), the copper has a big 4 inch butterfly valve on the base of the cone so the spent hops in the copper are simply poked down thru the outlet to clean out:
This was either the late sugar addition or the late Steep hops going in:
Some beery treasure I brought home with me 🙂
We had some fun and games with a stuck mash and the copper was on a go-slow at getting to the boil, it was hopped with first Wort Warrior hops then 10 mins before the end of boil more Warrior & US-Magnum, finally finished with a late 85c steep of Simcoe, Chinook and Experimental 366. The Sinamar was added while recirculating and the colour checked…. It was black 😉
The wort was tasting great with little to no roast character, this is what we were aiming for with the Sinamar… so look out for “Stormy Point” Dark and Moody IPA from @shaneswindells you might see @pdtnc or @SaltaireBrewAde on the bottle labels & Pump Clips etc
Cheers for a great day Shane
AG#105 – Summit 73 E366
Posted on: September 27, 2013
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Summit 73 E366 – Bit of an experiment, I’m mashing for a 1040 wort but mashing high so as to produce lots of un-fermentable sugars and hoping for a full bodied 2.8% ABV, Phil Lowry recommends something like this for a low abv beer so I’m finally getting round to giving it a go though he recommended 74°c for the mash temp I’m resisting and going for 73°c.
My choice of malts is also high on the Dextrine and malty side to try and pack in a load of malt flavour while keeping the beer light in colour *Fingers crossed!*
I’m also not adding any hops for the first 45mins ‘Hop Bursting‘ of the boil with just a small charge at 15mins from end and a massive end of boil steep using ‘Summit‘ & ‘Experimental 366‘ in equal parts.
Fermentables:
Lager Malt – 65%
Carapils (Weyermann) – 15%
Munich Malt – 10%
Vienna Malt – 10%
Hops:
Summit – 17.5 % @ 15 mins – 15g
Experimental 366 – 15.7 % @ 15 mins – 15g
Summit – 17.5 % @ 0 mins – 85g
Experimental 366 – 15.7 % @ 0 mins – 85g
Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.040
Final Gravity: 1.010 (I’m hoping for a high FG)
Alcohol Content: 3.9% ABV
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 24 EBU
Colour: 7 EBC
Mash: 60mins @ 73°c
Boil: 60mins
Yeast: Safale us-05
Protafloc @ 10mins
Here are the usual batch of brewday photos 
The malts & malt temp:
The Exp 366 hops:
First batch sparging running to the copper:
The last 15mins:
End of boil steep for 20mins:
I liquored back in the FV with 2.4L and pitched the yeast:
The wort tastes quite bitter and smells amazing when you give it a good thrash to aerate.
*29th Sep ’13 – Its a weird ferment on this one, a slightly scummy bubble top yesterday and today I thought it had stopped until i had a close look and saw loads of little bubbles fizzing away.
*1st Oct ’13 – Just done a gravity, this is at 1018, and I hope its finished, as its bang on the 2.8% I was aiming for. It has bags of body and flavour, you can still tell that it lacks alcohol but the body is there!
*6th Oct ’13 – Dry Hopped with 40g of Summit & 40g of Experimental 366 both whole hops.
*Bottled 17th Oct ’13 – primed with 102g white sugar for about 21 Litres, tasting very nice, this will be drinkable as soon as its carb’d up 🙂
*24th Oct ’13 – taster, I’d say this is ready to drink, a nice smooth dry hopped character and its picked up some bitterness from the dry hops too, carbonation is smooth maybe a little too much but only just, Bags and bags of fruity goodness.
*9th Nov ’13 – I have had a few bottles of this now, lovely and cold from the fridge I’d rank this as one of the best beers I’ve ever made! The hop Character and carbonation work really well and it holds its own well with beers more than twice as strong.
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