Beerfingers Brewery - Smashback Ale

[loikar]

Just had a few mega-swill mates around to sample my SmashBack Ale which i brewed for them!

WINNER!! They loved it!, and to be honest, its a Sh!t hot Mega Swill style!
Next time I'll use a lager yeast so it finishes a bit crisp and drier

Beer Flavored water as requested by the Bogan Boys.

ok, 27L Brew!! (about 3 cartons)

1 can of Coopers Lager
1kg of Dex
500g LDME
10g Cascade
150ml Safale US05 left over from previous CPA

boil 400g LDME and 10g of Cascade in 4L water for 5-10 min
Flameout, add the rest of ingredients to dissolve.

into fermenter and top up to 27L

pitch yeast @ 18deg
Ferment @ 15deg for 14 days and rack to secondary
Ferment @ 15deg for a further 14 days or until full attenuation is complete
add fining's and Cold chill for 2-3 days at 5deg.
bring back up to 20deg for 12-24 hours just to clean up anything the yeast has left behind.
Rack onto 153g Dex and bottle as per normal.
Bottle condition for at least 3 weeks at ambient temps.

You'll have to keep an I on the brew through the fermentation as the yeast tends to want to nod off at this temp.
I had to swirl the fermenter a few times during the final 2 weeks to keep it awake and lifted it to 20deg for the last 2 days to make sure it had fully attenuated.

Don't have my brew book on hand but pretty sure OG 1038 and FG 1008
works out to about 5% Alc in the bottle.

Probably the best Kit brew I have made in regards to a clean non-twangy taste and the lads said it was like TED but better!
The only complaint I had was that it should be a bit dryer and crisper.
Next time it'll be a Saflager

It's the first beer I have made that kept the lads coming back.
They really enjoyed it.....

While I enjoyed an extract version of the Good Doctors Golden Ale :icon_drool2:

Sharing the Experience!

BF

Edit: OG 1042 - FG 1008

 

[Fourstar]

pitch yeast @ 18deg
Ferment @ 15deg for 14 days and rack to secondary
Ferment @ 15deg for a further 14 days or until full attenuation is complete
add fining's and Cold chill for 2-3 days at 5deg.
bring back up to 20deg for 12-24 hours just to clean up anything the yeast has left behind.
Rack onto 153g Dex and bottle as per normal.
Bottle condition for at least 3 weeks at ambient temps.

FYI (possibly a way to clean up your brewing process), highlighed in red is a redundant step, you SHOULD do this after you hit terminal gravity, simply rest the beer for 48 hours and this will munch up any precursors. Then crash chill, rack and bottle. by warming it up again you are just removing more CO2 from solution.

Cheers! :icon_cheers:

 

[loikar]

FYI (possibly a way to clean up your brewing process), highlighed in red is a redundant step, you SHOULD do this after you hit terminal gravity, simply rest the beer for 48 hours and this will munch up any precursors. Then crash chill, rack and bottle. by warming it up again you are just removing more CO2 from solution.

Cheers! :icon_cheers:

Yeah, you're probably right.
This was the first brew I did for someone other than myself, and wanted it to be a cracker, so I was babying it a fair bit.

BF

 

[Eyelusion]

Great stuff.
I might give that a go myself.
Thx for sharing.
:icon_cheers:

 

[loikar]

Great stuff.
I might give that a go myself.
Thx for sharing.
:icon_cheers:

No worries, added it to the DB I'm that wrapped in how it turned out!
Just a warning though, it's called SmashBack for a reason :icon_drunk:
BF

 

[bum]

Good on ya for putting it in the DB! This board has plenty and great K&B recipes floating around but I reckon too many of us are a bit scared to put a kit recipe in the DB. More of it, I say!

(Easy to say when I have nothing to contribute myself!)

 

[loikar]

Good on ya for putting it in the DB! This board has plenty and great K&B recipes floating around but I reckon too many of us are a bit scared to put a kit recipe in the DB. More of it, I say!

(Easy to say when I have nothing to contribute myself!)

+1

we need more K&K and Extracts in the DB
Working on a Pale now that I got high hopes for, if that's a cracker, i'll post it up there too

BF

 

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[Fourstar]

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[loikar]

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Hellooooooooo random!