AG#2 - Haka! The Herald - Pacific IPA

[periolus]

Did this a week-and-half ago now, but if anyone's interested, here's what it was like:

Okay, AG#2 is Haka! The Herald, a Xmas Pacific IPA. As the name suggests, it has a fair amount of NZ hop in it.

Recipe as follows:

87% Maris Otter
7% Caramalt
1% Amber
3.5% Munich
1.5% Wheat malt
70g table sugar in the boiler

Motueka & US Cascade - Bittering hops
Nelson Sauvin & Motueka- Flavour
Nelson Sauvin & US Cascade - Aroma

27g Motueka @ 60
11g US Cascade @ 45

10g Motueka @ 29
2g Nelson Sauvin per minute @ 28->21

12g Motueka @ 25
12g Motueka @ 20
1g Nelson Sauvin per minute @ 20->11

10g US Cascade @ 10
15g US Cascade @ 5
15g US Cascade @ 1

8g Nelson Sauvin @ 0

US-05 to ferment


Bloody weird brew this, as I was aiming for 20L into the fermenter, which was supposed to come out at about 53IBU and 6.3%. Somehow, I only ended up with 12L at the end :shock: I forgot to factor loss to hops and trub, but even so, that is a strange outcome!

I also cocked up the grain bill slightly, as I accidentally added crystal malt instead of caramalt, so much darker and will be sweeter.

Now, of course, the IBU is going to be closer to 63 and the expected ABV is 7.4 - 7.7% depending on the final gravity. One to savour, I think! Should be nice! I don't know how I would recreate it now though!

 

[bobsbeer]

Sounds good. Sods law says it's going to be a blinder. :thumb:

 

[MacKiwi]

Oooh, I like the look of this. I'm from NZ, living in Scotland, so the thought of doing something with a lot of NZ hops, and making it dark (All Black), was starting to form in my mind. Will be very interesting to see how this goes - and I might have a crack myself.

 

[periolus]

Yeah, I am having a real love affair with NZ hops. Fantastic. I was going to use NZ Cluster, actually, but had heard that they were actually a more subdued flavour and aroma to the US equivalent, and I wanted the kick I was used to.

I can't wait to try this. Might even enter it for The Spring Thing for a laugh if it's okay. :

 

[PD]

Being a Rugby fan I also like this idea of a nice black beer to represent the All Black team.
















Of course it will have a nice pure white English head on top... :whistle: :whistle:

 

[MacKiwi]

 

[kev]

Was your first AG batch short on volume?

K

 

[periolus]

AG1 came in roughly 1L short. AG2 has beer waiting in the Twilight Zone somewhere!

 

[periolus]

I have just opened the lid on my FV and had a quick sniff to see what it was like.

I was surprised to find a thick frothy head on it. I guess it has to drop nearly 60 points, but after 14 days I thought it would have finished.

NEVER do I take interim gravity readings, but I am going to this time. Hydrometer is immersed in HPPA as we speak.