goatus
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Hi all,
Just harvested a buttload of homegrown cascade off my hop plant.. they smell awesome. Calls for a nice hoppy cascade AIPA I think.
I'm guestimating their AA% at about 3% (I figure I wouldnt have done as well as the commercial growers % wise, and im not really sure if i dried them long enough, so i pulled that figure out of my arse). Either way, it wont matter too much with this recipe as most of the bitterness will come from the magnum, with the cascade later. So it will either be a very nice bitter AIPA, or a very nice EXTRA bitter AIPA if i under-calculated. Ill be happy either way =)
So just looking for some feedback on the recipe below. Also OG is estimated at 1.071 SG - is this too much for a packet of US-05 to handle? If so I may brew a smaller beer (APA with more homemade cascade =) first and dump this on the yeast cake. Thoughts?
20L batch. Had that amount of crystal malt laying around, hence the odd number.
Just harvested a buttload of homegrown cascade off my hop plant.. they smell awesome. Calls for a nice hoppy cascade AIPA I think.
I'm guestimating their AA% at about 3% (I figure I wouldnt have done as well as the commercial growers % wise, and im not really sure if i dried them long enough, so i pulled that figure out of my arse). Either way, it wont matter too much with this recipe as most of the bitterness will come from the magnum, with the cascade later. So it will either be a very nice bitter AIPA, or a very nice EXTRA bitter AIPA if i under-calculated. Ill be happy either way =)
So just looking for some feedback on the recipe below. Also OG is estimated at 1.071 SG - is this too much for a packet of US-05 to handle? If so I may brew a smaller beer (APA with more homemade cascade =) first and dump this on the yeast cake. Thoughts?
20L batch. Had that amount of crystal malt laying around, hence the odd number.
Code:
5.50 kg (84.9 %) Pale Malt, Ale (Barrett Burston) (5.9 EBC)
0.50 kg (7.7 % ) Munich Malt (17.7 EBC)
0.28 kg (4.3 %) Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (118.2 EBC)
0.20 kg (3.1 %) Caramunich Malt (110.3 EBC)
30.00 g Magnum [14.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min - 41.7 IBUs
15.00 g Cascade [3.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min - 3.1 IBUs
15.00 g Cascade [3.00 %] - Boil 15.0 min - 2.0 IBUs
15.00 g Cascade [3.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min - 1.5 IBUs
30.00 g Cascade [3.00 %] - Boil 5.0 min - 1.6 IBUs
30.00 g Cascade [3.00 %] - Boil 0.0 min - 0.0 IBUs
Est Original Gravity: 1.071
Est Final Gravity: 1.017 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 7.1 %
Bitterness: 49.9 IBUs
Est Color: 22.5 EBC