Centerillo APA

[Bionicmunky]

Brewed this friday as had a lieu day to take.

I like the APA I did a while back with Amarillo and Cascades, so I thought i'd try something similar with Centennial and Amarillo :-)

Recipe Overview:

Volume Of Finished Beer: 42.00 l
Expected OG: 1.047 SG
Expected FG: 1.011 SG
Expected ABV: 4.7 %
Expected IBU (using Tinseth): 31.0 IBU
Expected Color (using Morey): 11.4 EBC
BU:GU ratio: 0.66 Approx Color:
Mash Efficiency: 75.0 %
Boil Duration: 90.0 mins


Fermentables
Ingredient Amount % MCU When
UK Pale Ale Malt 8.500 kg 95.5 % 4.8 In Mash/Steeped
UK Caramalt 0.200 kg 2.2 % 0.5 In Mash/Steeped
UK Torrified Wheat 0.200 kg 2.2 % 0.1 In Mash/Steeped


Hops
Variety Alpha Amount IBU Form When
US Centennial 11.9 % 20 g 15.4 Loose Whole Hops First Wort Hopped
US Amarillo 9.5 % 10 g 6.1 Loose Whole Hops First Wort Hopped
US Amarillo 9.5 % 20 g 4.2 Loose Whole Hops 10 Min From End
US Centennial 11.9 % 10 g 2.6 Loose Whole Hops 10 Min From End
US Amarillo 9.5 % 50 g 1.2 Loose Whole Hops 1 Min From End
US Centennial 11.9 % 50 g 1.5 Loose Whole Hops 1 Min From End

I ended up with about 45L @ 1043 as I still haven't dialed the brewery in yet as waiting to finish the HERMS, talking of which I used the spent grain to do a wet, dry run of the the HERMS system. All worked well :-)

So next brew will be the dial in and baseline brew :-)

Control box: left PID is measuring HE outlet temp and controlling the Cygnets 3KW element. Right PID is just acting as a thermometer measuring the mash temp.

The Cygnet urn (no leaks, rather shocking for me):

Hoping to brew again as soon as the above is out of the fermenter ;-)

 

[Bionicmunky]

down to 1014 as of yesterday and smelling yummy, tasting good too

 

[Nic_P]

SHould be interesting to see how it ends up BM.
I just did an extract with Amarillo. It's been bottled about a week and a half. I tried one the other night lovely hops but a bit sweet for me. 60g amarillo 60 m boil 3Kg Spraymalt 21L length.
I want to do one again.
Should I just up the amarillo for added bitterness or would I be better using something else, gon't want the fruity amarillo's to overpower the flavour?
: Nic

 

[jonewer]

I'm drinking an amarillo'd beer at the moment. TBH, I find the amarillo flavour a bit overpowering. Certainly do smell nice when they're boiling though, but its not as bitter as I'd hoped. Maybe use a more neutral hop for bittering?