Ryedale_Brassage
Active Member
Last Thursday (28th Jan) I decided to use 2 of the hop types that I got in the recent give away. I thought that the Aurora and Wolf seemed to be a good combination to start with. As my biggest pot is one of the Buckingham "15" litre (actually about 12 litres) I decided to do a 5 l batch.
The recipe I used was:-
1.15 Kg Pale Malt
0.15 Kg Munich
10 g Styrian Aurora Hops (60 mins)
10 g Styrian Wolf Hops (5 mins)
Irish Moss (15 mins) - small teaspoon
Yeast - 25 ml of trub from IPA that I had bottled the day before. This had used US-05 yeast. I used the Mrmalty calc to get to this amount.
Method:
I initially treated 7 l of water with half a crushed campden tablet to de-chlorinate etc.
I heated 3 l to 75 C and then added my grain in a muslin bag. I gave this a good stir and then checked the temperature which was 65 C. The pot was covered with a couple of towels and an old camping mat and left for half an hour.
I checked the temp and it had dropped to 60 C (I usually use towels and a sleeping bag which keeps the temperature better - I will remember to get the sleeping bag out of the loft for next time!). I put the pot back on the cooker and brought the temp up to 68 C. I re-covered and left for another half an hour.
I heated the remaining 4 l of water to 80 C. The mashed wort was poured into a fv with the grain bag sitting on a sieve over the top of the fv to let it drain into the fv.
The grain bag was then put into the pot of water at 80 C and left for about 10 mins. I then stirred and put it in the sieve over the fv to drain. I squeezed the grain bag to get a decent amount of liquid out. In total I had 6 l of pre-boil wort.
The wort was added back to the pot and this was put on the cooker to bring to the boil.
Boil time was for 70 mins. I had used this in the previous IPA recipe that I had got from Greg Hughes - Home Brew Beer so thought I would stick with this.
10 g of Aurora hops were added at 60 mins, Irish moss was added at 15 mins and 10 g of Wolf hops were added at 5 mins. Unfortunately I had a bit of a cold, so did not get much of anything distinctive from the hops. They smelt hoppy but that was it. Hopefully I will get the actual flavours when they have brewed!
I put the pot in the sink part full with cold water to cool. I changed the water 3 times, and it took about 30 mins to cool down to 20 C.
I then poured everything through a muslin bag sitting in the sieve, into a fv, to stop the hops and other solids going into my demi-john.
I checked the gravity which showed as 1.054. I was happy with this so poured the cooled liquid into a demi-john.
I had earlier calculated how much of my trub from the previous brew to use, so I added the 25ml into the demi-john and gave it a good shake to aerate it.
I fitted an air-lock and put the demi-john, covered with a towel and a camping mat, into my usual brewing corner. This had started bubbling away nicely by the next morning.
Note that all equipment that I used was thoroughly cleaned and everything that was used post boil (apart from the muslin bag which I boiled in water for 15 mins) also had the benefit of a good dose of diluted starsan.
I am looking forward to trying this as the description of the hops should give a nice tropical taste to the beer. I will update the thread as the brew progresses.
The recipe I used was:-
1.15 Kg Pale Malt
0.15 Kg Munich
10 g Styrian Aurora Hops (60 mins)
10 g Styrian Wolf Hops (5 mins)
Irish Moss (15 mins) - small teaspoon
Yeast - 25 ml of trub from IPA that I had bottled the day before. This had used US-05 yeast. I used the Mrmalty calc to get to this amount.
Method:
I initially treated 7 l of water with half a crushed campden tablet to de-chlorinate etc.
I heated 3 l to 75 C and then added my grain in a muslin bag. I gave this a good stir and then checked the temperature which was 65 C. The pot was covered with a couple of towels and an old camping mat and left for half an hour.
I checked the temp and it had dropped to 60 C (I usually use towels and a sleeping bag which keeps the temperature better - I will remember to get the sleeping bag out of the loft for next time!). I put the pot back on the cooker and brought the temp up to 68 C. I re-covered and left for another half an hour.
I heated the remaining 4 l of water to 80 C. The mashed wort was poured into a fv with the grain bag sitting on a sieve over the top of the fv to let it drain into the fv.
The grain bag was then put into the pot of water at 80 C and left for about 10 mins. I then stirred and put it in the sieve over the fv to drain. I squeezed the grain bag to get a decent amount of liquid out. In total I had 6 l of pre-boil wort.
The wort was added back to the pot and this was put on the cooker to bring to the boil.
Boil time was for 70 mins. I had used this in the previous IPA recipe that I had got from Greg Hughes - Home Brew Beer so thought I would stick with this.
10 g of Aurora hops were added at 60 mins, Irish moss was added at 15 mins and 10 g of Wolf hops were added at 5 mins. Unfortunately I had a bit of a cold, so did not get much of anything distinctive from the hops. They smelt hoppy but that was it. Hopefully I will get the actual flavours when they have brewed!
I put the pot in the sink part full with cold water to cool. I changed the water 3 times, and it took about 30 mins to cool down to 20 C.
I then poured everything through a muslin bag sitting in the sieve, into a fv, to stop the hops and other solids going into my demi-john.
I checked the gravity which showed as 1.054. I was happy with this so poured the cooled liquid into a demi-john.
I had earlier calculated how much of my trub from the previous brew to use, so I added the 25ml into the demi-john and gave it a good shake to aerate it.
I fitted an air-lock and put the demi-john, covered with a towel and a camping mat, into my usual brewing corner. This had started bubbling away nicely by the next morning.
Note that all equipment that I used was thoroughly cleaned and everything that was used post boil (apart from the muslin bag which I boiled in water for 15 mins) also had the benefit of a good dose of diluted starsan.
I am looking forward to trying this as the description of the hops should give a nice tropical taste to the beer. I will update the thread as the brew progresses.
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