leedsbrew
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Now then....................been a while. Infact I recon a fair few of you won't know who I am! lol 
I've been out in the cold for about 2 years, but I've got the passion back again recently. I broke out the mash tun yesterday to brew for the Northern Craft Brewers competition in August.
Rules: English IPA using only UK or European hops. Any malts and yeast
So with that in mind I came up with the following recipe:
Hiatus IPA
Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.054
Final Gravity: 1.014
Alcohol Content: 5.3% ABV
Mash Efficiency: 85%
Bitterness: 42IBU
Colour: 8 SRM
Achilles IPA
Fermentables
Ingredient Amount % MCU When
UK Pale Ale Malt 87%
Belgian Cara Vienna Malt 6%
Belgian Biscuit Malt 5%
UK Wheat Malt 2%
Hops
Variety Alpha Amount IBU Form When
German Magnum 13% AA, 30g 36.5 IBUs, Loose Whole Hops First Wort Hopped
UK Keyworth M 4.5% AA, 50g, 5.4 IBUs, Loose Whole Hops 10 mins from end
German Mandarina Bavaria 7.5% 50g, Loose Whole Hops At turn off
UK Keyworth M 4.5% AA, 50g, Loose Whole Hops 4 day dry hop
Yeast
S04
The grain bill is a variation of a recipe I've done before that came out really well in a US IPA called Achilles. http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=48877&hilit=achilles
It looked the business in the glass
Unfortunately, due to my hiatus, grain stocks were low and I was out of Amber and CaraMunich II. Up stepped biscuit and cara vienna. the colour should be about the same, and I'm hoping that the biscuit will add a similar dryness as amber malt, and similarly the caraVienna should add a sweetness akin to CaraMunich.
Considering I've been out of the game for so long I was surprised at how uneventful the whole session was. Managed to hit all the numbers and volumes.
I had to pop out and see a man about an allotment, after a 2 hour mash my little coolbox mash tun had kept the temp almost perfectly.
Brimmed it! :shock:
Got a really good break
Came out clear as a bell
Hit 23L all but bang on!
so this is happily chugging away with S04. Once fermentation has died down I'll give it its 4 days of dry hops, rack and then bottle ready for the comp!
Good to be back in the saddle!
cheers
LB
I've been out in the cold for about 2 years, but I've got the passion back again recently. I broke out the mash tun yesterday to brew for the Northern Craft Brewers competition in August.
Rules: English IPA using only UK or European hops. Any malts and yeast
So with that in mind I came up with the following recipe:
Hiatus IPA
Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.054
Final Gravity: 1.014
Alcohol Content: 5.3% ABV
Mash Efficiency: 85%
Bitterness: 42IBU
Colour: 8 SRM
Achilles IPA
Fermentables
Ingredient Amount % MCU When
UK Pale Ale Malt 87%
Belgian Cara Vienna Malt 6%
Belgian Biscuit Malt 5%
UK Wheat Malt 2%
Hops
Variety Alpha Amount IBU Form When
German Magnum 13% AA, 30g 36.5 IBUs, Loose Whole Hops First Wort Hopped
UK Keyworth M 4.5% AA, 50g, 5.4 IBUs, Loose Whole Hops 10 mins from end
German Mandarina Bavaria 7.5% 50g, Loose Whole Hops At turn off
UK Keyworth M 4.5% AA, 50g, Loose Whole Hops 4 day dry hop
Yeast
S04
The grain bill is a variation of a recipe I've done before that came out really well in a US IPA called Achilles. http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=48877&hilit=achilles
It looked the business in the glass
Unfortunately, due to my hiatus, grain stocks were low and I was out of Amber and CaraMunich II. Up stepped biscuit and cara vienna. the colour should be about the same, and I'm hoping that the biscuit will add a similar dryness as amber malt, and similarly the caraVienna should add a sweetness akin to CaraMunich.
Considering I've been out of the game for so long I was surprised at how uneventful the whole session was. Managed to hit all the numbers and volumes.
I had to pop out and see a man about an allotment, after a 2 hour mash my little coolbox mash tun had kept the temp almost perfectly.
Brimmed it! :shock:
Got a really good break
Came out clear as a bell
Hit 23L all but bang on!
so this is happily chugging away with S04. Once fermentation has died down I'll give it its 4 days of dry hops, rack and then bottle ready for the comp!
Good to be back in the saddle!
cheers
LB
