AG#102 - Gods of War

[Franklin]

Gods of War An impromptu brewday and a half-baked earlier idea to use Warrior & Zeus hops for the first time, I'm going all out with the Cara/Crystal with some Melanoidin Malt to make up for me not having any Munich which was substituted by Dark Wheat Malt.

Fermentables:
Lager Malt - 69%
Crystal Malt - 8%
Caramalt - 8%
Wheat Malt Dark (Weyermann) - 8%
Melanoidin (Weyermann) - 5%
Chocolate Malt, Pale - 2%

Hops:
Apollo - 19.5 % @ 60 mins - 30g (FWH)
Zeus - 16.7 % @ 10 mins - 20g
Apollo - 19.5 % @ 10 mins - 20g
Warrior - 17 % @ 10 mins - 20g
Warrior - 17 % @ 0 mins - 30g (5-10mins Steep at 90c)
Zeus - 16.7 % @ 0 mins - 30g (5-10mins Steep at 90c)
Apollo - 19.5 % @ 0 mins - 30g (5-10mins Steep at 90c)

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.058
Final Gravity: 1.016
Alcohol Content: 5.5% ABV
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 91 EBU (55 EBU if you discount the 10min additions)
Colour: 60 EBC
Mash: 67c for 60mins
Yeast: The Malt Miller's West Coast Style yeast http://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/index.ph ... ductId=443

The malts:

The Apollo hops really made the garage stink:

I've not used this yeast before, I'd be interested to hear others findings:

First batch sparge running into the copper:

A good rolling boil and the 10min hops go in:

Flameout hops go in at 90c for a 5-10min steep after which I turned the Immersion cooler on:

AG#102 - Gods of War by pdtnc, on Flickr

Yeast was rehydrated in cooled boiled water as instructed, it will be fermenting at the ambient temp of the garage to start with as last weeks brew is still in the brew-fridge.

 

[abeyptfc]

looks like a tasty brew! hope it goes well.

 

[carl_saint]

That looks very tasty indeed! Love a good handful of flame out hops!

 

[Franklin]

Big handful!

 

[Dr Mike]

I've just bottled an American Brown Ale using TMM West Coast yeast. Not the fastest yeast in the world (took 7 days to get to FG in a 1046 wort) but started well and flocculated well at the end. Quite attenuative - got 78% attenuation in wort with 10% crystal. Taste at bottling is quite clean but I think it might mute bitterness abit.

Rumoured to be the same as Danstar BRY-97.

 

[soupdragon]

I've not used this yeast before, I'd be interested to hear others findings:

I found it behaved very much like US-05 ( no surprise there though ). Was a bugger to clear down, although I have no means of cooling during fermentation. Flavour wise, I found it allowed the hops to come forward, again no surprise.
I'll be using it again, if only because it's cheaper than US-05 :thumb:

Cheers Tom

 

[Franklin]

Thanks for that guys :)