AG#43 Hoppy Pale Session Ale
APA, IPA... you be the judge. Bit of a user-upper but also building on recent efforts I also wanted to experiment a bit more with using crystal malts (instead of just chucking in a bag of base malt and a ton of hops and calling it an IPA as I would normally do). The key here seems to be to find the right balance between the bitterness, the hoppiness and the sweetness from the crystal malt.
15L tap water, 10ml CRS, 2g gypsum, half a Campden tablet.
1530g Lager Malt
395g Golden Promise
200g Vienna malt
75g Munich malt
125g Crystal malt
100g Victory malt
TOTAL 2.43kg
60min full-volume no-sparge mash @ 65degC
Boil 30mins:
15g Magnum 11% 30mins
10g Cascade (NZ) 7% 10mins
10g Centennial 9.7% 10mins
1g Irish Moss powder 10mins
10g Cascade (NZ) 7% 5mins
10g Centennial 9.7% 5mins
(also plan to dry hop with 10-20g each Cascade & Centennial)
12L crystal clear wort into the FV.
Pitched 5g MJ M36
OG 1.042 (a couple of points shy of the target)
Should end up around 4.4% ABV
48 IBUs
7.2 SRM
APA, IPA... you be the judge. Bit of a user-upper but also building on recent efforts I also wanted to experiment a bit more with using crystal malts (instead of just chucking in a bag of base malt and a ton of hops and calling it an IPA as I would normally do). The key here seems to be to find the right balance between the bitterness, the hoppiness and the sweetness from the crystal malt.
15L tap water, 10ml CRS, 2g gypsum, half a Campden tablet.
1530g Lager Malt
395g Golden Promise
200g Vienna malt
75g Munich malt
125g Crystal malt
100g Victory malt
TOTAL 2.43kg
60min full-volume no-sparge mash @ 65degC
Boil 30mins:
15g Magnum 11% 30mins
10g Cascade (NZ) 7% 10mins
10g Centennial 9.7% 10mins
1g Irish Moss powder 10mins
10g Cascade (NZ) 7% 5mins
10g Centennial 9.7% 5mins
(also plan to dry hop with 10-20g each Cascade & Centennial)
12L crystal clear wort into the FV.
Pitched 5g MJ M36
OG 1.042 (a couple of points shy of the target)
Should end up around 4.4% ABV
48 IBUs
7.2 SRM