AG#32 New Empire IPA

[rickthebrew]

Mash has 30mins to go, light rain is turning to sleety snow - still very light hopefully it`ll blow over, boiler has its umbrella over and tun covered with a dust sheet

So my new years brew - IPA sort of style with new world hops, going for 46litres today :thumb:

New Empire IPA 46litres 5.8%

8kg Pale Malt
400g Crystal Malt
1kg Sugar

50g Magnum - 90min boil
30g Magnum - 10min boil
25g Ahatanum - 10min boil
25g Ahatanum - 5min boil
25g Ahatanum - 1min boil
25g Ahatanum - 30min steep @ 80degrees

Expected OG:1049
Expected FG:1006
IBU: 50.9
SRM: 9.9
Expected ABV: 5.8%


Using sugar to up the ABV, 8.4kg of grain is right on the limit with my tun, us-o5 starter from yeast from my last brew will be pitched :thumb: Pics to follow - weather looking stable so fingers crossed :whistle:

 

[Tony]

Nice one Rick! Been meaning to try those Ahatanum in a brew with some Motueka.

46 ltrs .. have you updated your boiler? I missed that. Good luck with it .. and with the weather. I have 55 ltrs of my last brew to rack into secondary at some point today .. then I think I'll get planning my next, feel a stout coming on!

 

[Dieseljockey]

Brewing outside with the brolly up to stop the sleet..... :pray:

sounds like your in the Artic Rick....keep a lookout for polar bears they may like a drop of IPA... :rofl:

 

[rickthebrew]

Lucky so far - seems to have passed, :twisted:

 

[rickthebrew]

Boil finished, light rain but not to bad :thumb:
Few pics, mashed in at 7ish, umbrella sellotaped onto hanging basket seemed to do the trick :lol:

Hops and beer from the exeter brewery http://www.theexeterbrewery.co.uk/ i`ve had a couple before but not the stout or ferryman bitter - will try tonight :drink:

Boiled the sugar seperatley and then added to wort for last ten mins of boil.

 

[rickthebrew]

Nice one Rick! Been meaning to try those Ahatanum in a brew with some Motueka.

That sounds like a great combo : The ahatanum smell awesome - spicy and slightly floral and citrusy, but not overly citrusy like cascade so looking forward to this one..........and the next.......... :whistle:

 

[Sean_Mc]

Nice one Rick, pure dedication to the craft :thumb:

 

[Ceejay]

Nice one matey! What's the Exeter Brewery stuff like? Didn't know they sold hops as well :thumb:

 

[unclepumble]

Looking good u need a medal brewing outside in weather like that, its bloody cold enough sat in my garage Brrrrrrrrrrrr. :shock: :thumb:


Looks a good brew too I have yet to try ahatanum.

UP

 

[rickthebrew]

cheers chaps :thumb: One day i`ll have a garage with a big metal lump of a brewery in it

Nice one matey! What's the Exeter Brewery stuff like? Didn't know they sold hops as well :thumb:

Sorry it does read like I got the hops from them I only got the beer from them - hops from the malt miller. I`ve had avocet on tap in the fat pig in exeter and it was really good, also had the county best which is a nice bitter. I`ll review them when I drink them :thumb:

 

[Ceejay]

Nice, will have to give 'em a try - I would assume they sell it in Tuckers Maltings, as it sounds like that's where they get their malt.

Good luck with the rest of the brew (well, the weather really - still looks pretty grim out there!)

 

[drut]

Ahatanum - loverly hop!
Jaipur, Punk etc - I used it in three brews last year. Yours should be superb!
I hope you have got a suitable brew on hand to congratulate yourself on your outdoor activities! :drink:

 

[rickthebrew]

Nice, will have to give 'em a try - I would assume they sell it in Tuckers Maltings, as it sounds like that's where they get their malt.

Good luck with the rest of the brew (well, the weather really - still looks pretty grim out there!)

I got mine from exeter farmers market - I`d bet a leg that tuckers sell them though - great beer shop, good price on malt but special malts by the kg are a bit pricey otherwise I`d use them for all my malts rather than just sacks of pale.

 

[gurtpint]

Job well done and as other have pointed out, you surely don't fear the reap... I mean weather. You likes your hops, you do!

 

[rickthebrew]

All done and yeast pitched, quite suprised at the lovely golden colour - bit darker than I thought it would be but looks lovely 46litres at 1046 so very happy - I find us-05 ferments quite low so hoping for around 5.5%.

Happy brewing

 

[darrenwest1]

looks great there mate

 

[rickthebrew]

The US-05 has only just finished and i didn`t have time to bottle today so I syphoned into clean FVs and dry hopped each FV with 50grams of liberty

Will leave this till at least Tuesday before bottling, how long could I leave it though? I may not get time Tues so may have to leave to thurs or fri would this be OK?

:whistle:

 

[Franklin]

Sounds good, nice smooth bittering from those Magnum I bet :)