Bridgeport Kingpin

[indica86]

http://www.bridgeportbrew.com/drink/kingpin

Oh my, what a beer.

Any ideas of something ballpark?
Rye - never used it. How much should I use for that taste?

 

[indica86]

Awesome. Thanks for your help.

 

[gilmoreous]

Haha. I didnt rate it. I dont much like the 'Imperial' beers. I'd prefer a Red Trolley.

 

[wereprawn]

Brew a strong malty beer then **** in it. Not a fan! :icon_vomit:

 

[indica86]

Cool story

 

[DU99]

its uses liberty hops

 

[indica86]

DU99 I saw that.
Is the Rye a big factor flavour wise?
I don't know what it tastes like.

How much to use?

 

[indica86]

Well I made an attempt.
It tasted odd. Sometime later it is nice.
59 IBU and OG was 1053.

 

[indica86]

Made another. Bottled it today.
1062 >> 1008.
FV sample tasted good.

 

[Samuel Adams]

What was your recipe ?

 

[indica86]

I had to sub the Liberty for other hops as I could not get enough.


Recipe: Kingpin II


Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 35.00 l
Post Boil Volume: 31.69 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l
Bottling Volume: 21.60 l
Estimated OG: 1.062 SG
Estimated Color: 28.9 EBC
Estimated IBU: 63.2 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 85.4 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
5.00 kg Pale Malt (Barrett Burston) (3.9 EBC)
1.00 kg Rye Malt (Weyermann) (5.9 EBC)
0.25 kg Caraaroma (Weyermann) (350.7 EBC)
0.05 kg Roasted Malt (Joe White) (1199.7 EBC)
30.00 g Magnum [14.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 43.5 IBUs
20.00 g Mt. Hood [5.60 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 6 6.8 IBUs
20.00 g Santiam [6.60 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 7 8.0 IBUs
20.00 g Mt. Hood [5.60 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 8 2.2 IBUs
20.00 g Santiam [6.60 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 9 2.6 IBUs

Fermented with WLP Pacific Ale.

I found a clone once which has since been deleted and used a similar hop schedule. Didn't dry hop though, probably should have.
I'll taste in a week, but a bottling sample was very promising.

 

[Samuel Adams]

That looks really good.
Just did some reading on Liberty, Mt. Hood & Santium as I'm not familiar with them.
Mt. Hood & Santium sound like a good replacement for Liberty.
With those type of hops it should really let the malt shine.

I'm trying to nail the perfect American red but I always use fruity / piney hops in mine, the latest was Citra & Simcoe and I loved that (even though it turned out brown)

On the actual Kingpin I have tried it and found it a little underwhelming & thought it was too old and the hops had faded.
Now that I know they use an American grown nobel type hop it makes sense. I didn't hate it but was expecting the usual US IPA hop profile.

 

[indica86]

Not supposed to be an IPA, so if you drink it again remove from your mind the expectation of hop forwardness.

 

[Samuel Adams]

Shall do if I see it again

 

[indica86]

Had a taste yesterday and it is an absolute cracker.
May well be the best beer I have made.