Amarillo Pale?

[samnorfolk]

Has anyone used amarillo in a single pale malt recipe ?

 

[cheeseyfeet]

Absolutely, an Amarillo smash is a wonderful thing.

If you're not hung up on a single malt then the addition of 200g (or 5% of total) carapils into the grist makes a great base.



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[samnorfolk]

Absolutely, an Amarillo smash is a wonderful thing.

If you're not hung up on a single malt then the addition of 200g (or 5% of total) carapils into the grist makes a great base.



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Ok great, I've got some caramels kicking about actually, do you use single amarillo hop? I've got some admiral or challenger i was thinking of using for bittering

 

[cheeseyfeet]

I've done both, Amarillo is high enough alpha acid to be used as bittering as well as flavour, but it's expensive so I always thought it a bit wasteful.

Challenger would work well for bittering followed up by a good dose of Amarillo later in the boil.

Let us all know how it turns out!


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[samnorfolk]

I've done both, Amarillo is high enough alpha acid to be used as bittering as well as flavour, but it's expensive so I always thought it a bit wasteful.

Challenger would work well for bittering followed up by a good dose of Amarillo later in the boil.

Let us all know how it turns out!


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Ok great yeah i will do, is Amarillo similar to mosaic i.e add it at flameout?

Was thinking of adding 28g Challenger 8.5 aa @ 60 mins
Then adding the amarillo (although i haven't got a clue how much, think its 9.7aa)

 

[chub1]

Done Challenger and Amarillo before:thumb:

 

[samnorfolk]

Done Challenger and Amarillo before:thumb:

do you know what hop additions i was thinking of doing challenger to 30IBUs but unsure how much amarillo to go with its 9.7 aa should i add this at 20 mins or flameout??

 

[cheeseyfeet]

Looking at my brew log I added 14g Amarillo at 5 mins and 40g at flame out, this was bittered with nugget to about 35 IBUs. Came out nice.

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[DavidF]

Absolutely, an Amarillo smash is a wonderful thing.

If you're not hung up on a single malt then the addition of 200g (or 5% of total) carapils into the grist makes a great base.



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That's pretty much the malt bill for the Greg Hughes Amarillo Single Hop Ale - 95% Pale, 5% CaraPils. I have a small batch of this fermenting just now, although I plan to dry hop it which the recipe doesn't include. Amarillo 8.1%AA used throughout the whole brew.

 

[Robin54]

Yes, done a 10 litre Amarillo Smash, and very nice it was too.

 

[samnorfolk]

so I've got 5kg MO and 250g Carapils.

30g Challenger pellet 8.5aa @60
14g Amarillo pellet 9aa @5 mins
40g Amarillo pellet 9aa @0

Then will dry hop with Amarillo

Using S04

 

[peebee]

Pale and Amarillo... pretty much the recipe for the "Hunter Foundation Pale Ale" recipe released by Brewdog (No. 88). I did it because it wasn't so outrageously hopped as most of the others (SG50, IBU 35, so still hoppy). Uses "Munich Malt" to compliment the Pale (another reason I chose it - I have no, don't want no, light pale or lager malt).

Still conditioning. The "American Ale" yeast (Safale US-05) seems a bit fluffy, but should settle down. At least it's difficult to confuse with grapefruit juice now (that's the Amarillo?).

 

[chub1]

so I've got 5kg MO and 250g Carapils.

30g Challenger pellet 8.5aa @60
14g Amarillo pellet 9aa @5 mins
40g Amarillo pellet 9aa @0

Then will dry hop with Amarillo

Using S04

Slightly different, i did challenger and amarillo in an extract and Mmmmm:thumb:
Sounds good

 

[samnorfolk]

So its been fermenting away for 8 days now, i was going to dry hop with 50g amarillo pellet? Went to dry hop and there is still a crust on top of the wort, shall i wait a bit longer?

 

[Spapro]

Dry hopping about now for 4-5 days before bottling or kegging should be about right but worth taking a quick gravity reading with a hydrometer to check that fermentation has more or less finished.

If its down to somewhere approaching expected Final Gravity I would dry hop, if not would leave a few days and check again.

 

[Brightonnik]

I made the Amarillo single hop from the Greg Hughes book yesterday. Tasted the OG sample and thought it was a bit bitter! Turns out that rather than the 5% aa hops suggested in the book I was using 8.8% which ended up being 80ibus!
Oh well I will still have beer at the end of it!