Posts Tagged ‘first gold hops’
AG#47 – Bramling Cross IPA
Posted on: January 16, 2011
Bramling Cross IPA – I wasn’t actually planning to brew today, so I started late after throwing this recipe together. Its serving two functions; 1. I want to smell &taste Blackcurrant in an IPA from the Bramling Cross Hops; 2. It uses up a selection of Hops from the Freezer and pretty much depletes my base malt stocks.
I’d have preferred to have more Bramling Cross in the 80c steep but hopefully it will be adequate to give some of the characteristics I’m after.
Fermentables:
Lager Malt – 50%
Wheat Malt – 35%
Flaked Oats – 10%
Crystal Wheat Malt – 5%
Hops:
WGV @ 60 mins – 35g – (First Wort Hop)
Pilot @ 60 mins – 45g – (First Wort Hop)
First Gold @ 15 mins – 28g
Bramling Cross @ 0 mins – 39g – (80c Steep for 20mins)
Final Volume: 21 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.056
Final Gravity: 1.013
Alcohol Content: 5.6% ABV
Total Liquor: 31.2 Litres
Mash Liquor: 12.3 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 80 %
Bitterness: 68 EBU
Colour: 17 EBC
Mashed at 66c and lost 2c of 60min period, achieving 86% Mash efficiency.
Boiled for 60minutes, old Lager yeast added as nutrient and Protafloc tablet added for the last 20mins.
Yeast is Safale us-05 pitched at 20c, dry sprinkled.
First Wort Hops in the copper:
80c Steep hops in along with the cooler:
Must be 1054 with a couple of divisions in the meniscus, Refractometer said 14.2 Brix (1055), so about a point lower than Target:
Pretty Seedy these hops:
My first IPA type thing with Bramling Cross Hops back in April ’09
*Bottled 29th Jan ’11 with 50g white sugar primings
AG#11 – Pale, Wheat and Rye
Posted on: October 24, 2009
Fermentables:
Maris Otter 1040g
Wheat Malt 520g
Rye Malt 520g
Crystal Malt, Pale 205g
Hops:
Target @ 60 mins 16g (FWH)
First Gold @ 15 mins 10g
First Gold @ 0 mins 10g (I ended up doubling this to 20g)
Protafloc @ 20 mins
Final Volume: 12 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.042
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 4.1% ABV
Total Liquor: 18.5 Litres
Mash Liquor: 5.7 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 46 EBU
Colour: 14 EBC
1tsp Gypsum to each Mash & Boil, 90 minute Mash which stretched to 105 minute.
Yeast Safale s-04
The grains an 1 tsp gypsum for the mash:
Grist temp:
Mashed in spot on (I forgot to take an end of mash temp):
pH looks good:
The colour of the first batch sparge (with the second batch added its going to be a nice straw colour):
Running off, had a bit of sticking but the wort was going to be a bit cloudy anyway with the wheat:
Hops all sorted, I decided to double up the 10g 0 mins to 20g:
Just started boiling:
10min steep of 20g First Gold @ flame outs:
Cold break:
Hit about the right OG:
Splish splash:
Dry Sprinkled Safale s-04, left to sink for 15mins then thrashed with a paddle:
Left overs:
Front left is todays brew, back left is Yorkshire Trappist red with experiments on top, front right is the JBK Anniversary brew, back right is Amber Otter:
Fermentation less than 24 hours later:
I’m hoping the Target hops will have kept some flavour to add some extra zing to the First Gold.
*Bottled 3rd Nov ’09
Probably Due To Network Congestion 