• Please visit and share your knowledge at our sister communities:
  • If you have not, please join our official Australia and New Zealand Homebrewers Facebook Group!

    Australia and New Zealand Homebrewers Facebook Group

BeerFingers - 1.5Kg Amarillo SMaSH IPA

Australia & New Zealand Homebrewing Forum

Help Support Australia & New Zealand Homebrewing Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

big78sam

Frequent poster - My post count is no reflection o
Joined
15/11/08
Messages
834
Reaction score
41
Lol Sam...

Clearly you dont know BF too well...

I cant wait to see a post whirlpool pic...

Do you have enough stockings... What dod the woolies chick say when you cleared the shelf out.

Just jokes mate. Cant wait to see it but :-D
 
Are you sure or is your hop amount out 1 decimal point?

If you brew an extract you might just surprise yourself.
http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...showtopic=36160

I'm Positive
Code:
Ingredients:

------------

Amount		 Item									   Type		% or IBU	 

8.00 kg		Pale Malt, Ale (Barrett Burston) (5.9 EBC) Grain	   100.0 %	  

1500.00 gm	 Amarillo [8.50%]  (15 min)				 Hops		669.8 IBU	

1 Pkgs		 California Ale (White Labs #WLP001)		Yeast-Ale

yeast will be in a 2L starter.
So there will be some extract in there :D
 
**** - you must have one hell of a hard on for amarillo BF!
 
Do you have enough stockings... What dod the woolies chick say when you cleared the shelf out.

Just jokes mate. Cant wait to see it but :-D

yeah, I'm figuring making up stockings of 150g each added each minute for 10 minutes.
only because adding 1.5kg in one hit will kill the boil.

Why stockings? because i can squeeze them out and not lose 7L of wort to hops.

might need some rubber gloves for that though.
Walking out with 5 pairs of stockings and a pair of rubber gloves might raise some eyebrows :p

Will take plenty of pics on brewday ;)
 
**** - you must have one hell of a hard on for amarillo BF!

Yeah, I reckon I'll be over Amarillo by the time I get to the bottom of the keg.
Might bottle half of it though and put it away for a few months to settle.
 
Wow. That is a huge amount of hops. You would hope you don't get an infection in that batch.
 
Wow. That is a huge amount of hops. You would hope you don't get an infection in that batch.

Mine is only a Lightly hopped one.
I'm Pretty sure Doomed did a 3kg Brew a while back.

Nevertheless, It will be babied like no other....

IMG_20120523_223714.jpg
 
Lol Sam...

Clearly you dont know BF too well...

I cant wait to see a post whirlpool pic...

Do you have enough stockings... What dod the woolies chick say when you cleared the shelf out.

Just jokes mate. Cant wait to see it but :-D


theres a rumor that andy likes to wear the stockings first isnt there ben.
so its not a complete waste.
fergi :drinks:
 
yeah, I'm figuring making up stockings of 150g each added each minute for 10 minutes.
only because adding 1.5kg in one hit will kill the boil.

Why stockings? because i can squeeze them out and not lose 7L of wort to hops.

might need some rubber gloves for that though.
Walking out with 5 pairs of stockings and a pair of rubber gloves might raise some eyebrows :p

Will take plenty of pics on brewday ;)
Rather than squeeze your bag too much you could adjust your software to allow for the extra losses expected.
 
I also have a 10min SMaSH IPA planned and in stock that I will post about in a few weeks.
20L batch
8kg Pale malt
1.5Kg of Amarillo @10min
OG 1095
IBU 670

I'm Positive
BeefyFingers said:
Ingredients:
------------
Amount Item Type % or IBU
8.00 kg Pale Malt, Ale (Barrett Burston) (5.9 EBC) Grain 100.0 %
1500.00 gm Amarillo [8.50%] (15 min) Hops 669.8 IBU
1 Pkgs California Ale (White Labs #WLP001) Yeast-Ale

Mooted said:
Wanna review that positivity? Mate you don't know what you're on about.
 
Rather than squeeze your bag too much you could adjust your software to allow for the extra losses expected.

Nah, my hop screen wouldn't be able to cope with that amount of loose pellets and there's no way it would get through the plate chiller. So it'll have to go into stockings anyway. May as well squeeze them a bit to recover.

I'm thinking of 2x mash of 4kg each to push my efficiency up then if i need to I can add water to bring it up to the right OG.
 
Wanna review that positivity? Mate you don't know what you're on about.

Yep, also had the wrong AA levels in there.

Code:
Recipe Specifications

--------------------------

Batch Size: 20.00 L	  

Boil Size: 29.46 L

Estimated OG: 1.095 SG

Estimated Color: 14.3 EBC

Estimated IBU: 615.1 IBU

Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0 %

Boil Time: 90 Minutes



Ingredients:

------------

Amount		 Item									   Type		% or IBU	 

8.00 kg		Pale Malt, Ale (Barrett Burston) (5.9 EBC) Grain	   100.0 %	  

1500.00 gm	 Amarillo [10.10%]  (10 min)				Hops		615.1 IBU	

1 Pkgs		 California Ale (White Labs #WLP001) [StarteYeast-Ale				





Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge

Total Grain Weight: 8.00 kg

----------------------------

Name				Description					   Step Temp	 Step Time	 

Mash In			 Add 20.86 L of water at 67.8 C	62.0 C		75 min
 
Nah, my hop screen wouldn't be able to cope with that amount of loose pellets and there's no way it would get through the plate chiller. So it'll have to go into stockings anyway. May as well squeeze them a bit to recover.

I'm thinking of 2x mash of 4kg each to push my efficiency up then if i need to I can add water to bring it up to the right OG.
I'd still be using the hop stockings either way.

And where is the other pound of hops? You sleeping with them under your pillow?
 
I'd still be using the hop stockings either way.

For sure.
Have PM'd Doom about it all, he's replied but haven't properly read it yet.
Efficiency drops, really large losses to hops etc is all new stuff to me.
Having never done something with such a big OG and because I don't use BS properly enough to allow for the changes, i'm kinda doing it via careful planning (AKA: Seat of my pants).
But at the cost of this brew, I don't want it to **** out so much that it's undrinkable.

And where is the other pound of hops? You sleeping with them under your pillow?

I don't know if there's an equivalent to "Chroming" when it comes to hops.
I have laced my coffee with pellets and dry hopped my lemonade with them in the glass.
But most of the time I just bury my nose into the bag as often as I can.
I will probably use them in a Rogers Beer type clone.

This years Amarillo is amazing!
 
I also have a 10min SMaSH IPA planned and in stock that I will post about in a few weeks.
20L batch
8kg Pale malt
1.5Kg of Amarillo @10min
OG 1095
IBU 670

BeerFingers


What if it turns out less drinkable than your pale ale K&K?
Fair chance it will, if you ask me :ph34r: :ph34r:
 
What if it turns out less drinkable than your pale ale K&K?
Fair chance it will, if you ask me :ph34r: :ph34r:

Good thing I'm not asking you :p
you can stick K&K up your cloacae.

Will be splitting the Mash to 4kg each to make sure my efficiency stays where I want it.
Plan to over-sparge a bit and boil longer.
Have revised the hop additions though after speaking to some of our best brewers (they know who they are).

1Kg in the 10min addition.
500g dry hopped for 5 days in the keg.

this is primarily for a tad more insurance that it will be drinkable.

BF
 
Good thing I'm not asking you :p
you can stick K&K up your cloacae.

1Kg in the 10min addition.
500g dry hopped for 5 days in the keg.

this is primarily for a tad more insurance that it will be drinkable.

BF
Interesting choice of terms. I would have thought stick it up your cloaca sufficient but you have gone for the plural. Did you know that some turtles can partially breathe through their anal cloaca?
In all seriousness, whilst 1kg for 10 minutes would yeild interesting results, I think 500g in dry hopping is over the top. I could not imagine that the effect of say 250g dry hopping would have any less of an effect than 500g. I am just pulling figures out of my cloaca but the point is that there would at some point be a level at which additional hops in dry hopping may not yield a perceptable difference. I would also expect that a big whack at 10 minutes such as you plan, should yield a good depth of bitterness, flavour and aroma. You may be wasting your hops in the dry hop. Perhaps put 200g into the all grain brew and keg hop the other 300g into the K&K beer to make it taste more like beer?
 
and keg hop the other 300g into the K&K beer to make it taste more like beer?
Or save the 300g for mouth hoping the K&K beer (stick a few pellets in your mouth before each sip) - no doubt this would improve the flavour (well it couldn't really make it worse ;) ).

Could even stick a pellet in each nostril to improve the aroma. :lol:
 
I find that the more hops you throw at a beer during the boil the more dry hopping it can handle. 1kg of hops late in the boil will give you loads of hop character for sure and if you want a strong dry hopped character to really come through then I find I need to up my dry hopping otherwise it can get lost amongst the hot side hop additions. You may not notice a 100-200g dry hop in this this sort of beer so you may as well go for 500g. One way to go about it would be smaller additions for shorter periods. BF - you could try dry hopping your keg with 300g for 5 days then transferring into a new keg with a fresh 200g dry hop if you haven't got the dry hop character you wish after the first 300g.
 
but the point is that there would at some point be a level at which additional hops in dry hopping may not yield a perceptable difference.
I dunno - he'll probably see less beer.
 
BF - you could try dry hopping your keg with 300g for 5 days then transferring into a new keg with a fresh 200g dry hop if you haven't got the dry hop character you wish after the first 300g.

Yeah I did consider a double dry hop, and If I was able to crack open my fermenter lid, I probably would, but I can't risk the chance of infection on this one.
Stuffing around with kegs and pushing from one to another.

I think the difference also is this:
A lot of people dry hop into a 18c-22c beer. Correct me if i'm wrong, but in my mind, at that temp you'll also be extracting harsh acids as well as the resins you're after. Dry hopping in a beer that's 2c-4c will not extract these harsh acids as much and leaves the alcohol to extract the resins you're after and less of the harsh acids.

So I think maybe 500g for 7 days and then if it's still not there, another 250g for 5 (making it 1.75kg, I have more Amarillo ;))

With a brew @ nearly 10% ABV I dont think there will be any problem dry hopping 500g

Cheers,

BF
 
I'd suggest a false bottom (cloaca) for your keg, though using a biab bag instead could work
 
I'd suggest a false bottom (cloaca) for your keg, though using a biab bag instead could work

I have bags I got from Ross and a few stockings i'll use these.
Nothing ***** me more than a blocked pickup tube
 
I'd suggest a false bottom (cloaca) for your keg, though using a biab bag instead could work

Nice work, BL! Tight as a fish's arse.



I hope you like hop tea, BF ;)

C'mon, just a touch of crystal for some balance, man!
 
Back
Top