AG#6 - Nelson Sauvin/Citra

ian_r · Apr 25, 2016

Sunday was AG#6 (I think). Still using the trusty HBC BIAB start kit.

I'd called by a Home Brew shop earlier in the week and stocked up on hops - Nelson Sauvin, Citra, Mosaic, Amarillo and Cascade.

I knew I wanted to do something using Nelson Sauvin and was intending on doing a single hopped pale ale (using the recipe from the Greg Hughes book) but was undecided right up until the start of the boil. I'd heard mixed reviews about using Nelson Sauvin on it's own so in the end I decided to use the Citra alongside it.

This time I wanted to pay more attention to water/wort volumes as an English IPA I recently made ended up at 7%.

Opted for this:

4.7kg Maris Otter
0.19kg Cara Gold

22g Nelson Sauvin - 60 mins
6g Nelson Sauvin - 15 mins
6g Citra - 15 mins
6g Nelson Sauvin - 5 mins
6g Citra - 5 mins
17g Nelson Sauvin - 0 mins
17g Citra - 0 mins

1 teaspoon Irish Moss - 15 mins
Safale US-05 dried yeast sachet

Started with 26litres of water in the boiler and when it reached 71 degrees I turned it off and added the grain bill to the bag. Covered and mashed for an hour at 67 degrees. I then removed the bag and sparged with 6 litres of water at 75 degrees. This gave me 28 litres in the boiler.

After the boil this had reduced to 25 litres which gave me 23 litres in the FV once drained from the boiler. The hop strainer is excellent and allowed me to maintain a good flow into the FV.

OG was 1.048 which I'm very happy with.

The airlock is bubbling away nicely now after less than 24 hours.

Think I'm going to dry hop this one as well.

Looking forward to tasting this one is a few weeks.

stigman · Apr 25, 2016

Hi Ian
I just did my second attempt at biab with the hbc kit last weekend did a Nelson smash as you were thinking of, don't know how it's gona turn out? Good I hope.I will let you know in a few weeks. Just started drinking my first batch (the American DIPA mash kit I got with it) and it's bloody lovely so much better than my first two brews from kits.
I did things slightly different than you though. Mashed in 27 litres and sparged with 3 and ended up short in my fv both times with 21 litres. And over target gravity hbc kit should have been 1060 I ended up at 1070. I'm not that fussed though I like a nice strong beer. So for my next brew I'm gona be following your numbers I think.

ian_r · Apr 26, 2016

It's taken me a few attempts to get the volumes right but I was very pleased with everything this time. Took around 5.5 hours from start to finish including cleaning everything.

stigman · Apr 26, 2016

Brew number 2 took me about 5 hours aswell. First one was a disaster started at 8pm to put boiler together filled with water and had a small leak. Put that right and got brewing. Finally got in bed at about 3am with the kitchen looking like a bomb had gone off. SWMBO wasn't pleased when she woke up lol.

BeerCat · Apr 26, 2016

stigman said:
Brew number 2 took me about 5 hours aswell. First one was a disaster started at 8pm to put boiler together filled with water and had a small leak. Put that right and got brewing. Finally got in bed at about 3am with the kitchen looking like a bomb had gone off. SWMBO wasn't pleased when she woke up lol.

That's why i do it in the garage or outside :)

Ian i did a Pale Ale with Nelson for the late additions/no dry hops and it came out wonderful. I was very light on hops as well and came out surprisingly tasty. Good luck

donchiquon · Apr 29, 2016

ian_r said:
Opted for this:

4.7kg Maris Otter
0.19kg Cara Gold

22g Nelson Sauvin - 60 mins
6g Nelson Sauvin - 15 mins
6g Citra - 15 mins
6g Nelson Sauvin - 5 mins
6g Citra - 5 mins
17g Nelson Sauvin - 0 mins
17g Citra - 0 mins