RecipeDB - Riwaka Amber

[levin_ae92]

Riwaka Amber

Ale - American Amber Ale
All Grain

Brewer's Notes

0 Minute hops went into the cube with the wort poured on top.
20 minute and 0 minute additions are Riwaka (D-Saaz)

Malt & Fermentables

%	KG	Fermentable
	5 kg	BB Ale Malt
	0.7 kg	BB Wheat Malt
	0.2 kg	JWM Crystal 140
	0.1 kg	JWM Chocolate Malt

Hops

Time	Grams	Variety	Form	AA
	50 g	Saaz B (NZ) (pellet, 8.0AA%, 20mins)
	50 g	Saaz B (NZ) (pellet, 8.0AA%, 0mins)
	25 g	Northern Brewer (Pellet, 8.5AA%, 60mins)

Yeast

11 g

DCL Yeast US-05 - American Ale

23L Batch Size

Brew Details

• Original Gravity 1.053 (calc)
• Final Gravity 1.013 (calc)
• Bitterness 49.6 IBU
• Efficiency 65%
• Alcohol 5.2%
• Colour 27 EBC
• Batch Size 23L

Fermentation

• Primary 10 days
• Conditioning 4 days

 

[beerbog]

Man, :beerbang: that's going to be very bitter with a 50g 20 min addition and a 50g cube addition also.

 

[levin_ae92]

it isnt that bitter really, for my tastes is balanced really nicely!

 

[levin_ae92]

Made again but with 50g of nz cascade flowers at 20 and another 50 at 0, once again really nice

 

[Sydneybrewer]

that looks like a lot of grapfruit...



















i ****** love grapefruit rockin looking recipe dude

 

[levin_ae92]

Thanks Sydneybrewer! Everyone who tries it seems to like it! Perfect balance I reckon, nice sweetness balanced with resiny bitterness! Next up same malt bill but subbing all late hops with Amarillo pellets (wish we could get em in flower form!!)

 

[big_dazza27]

I'd be carefull not to be too heavy handed with Amarillo.

I love a big hoppy ale but i've found Amarillo can be a bit overpowering.

Have you thought of using Bsaaz (Motueka) with Cascade? I'm drinking one right now with 50g of each in the cube and 50g of each dry-hopped/coffee plunger - Sensational!

 

[dabre4]

**** hot! I've wanted to try Riwaka for a while now, this looks pretty awesome to me. I'm a bit of a hop head, and love hoppy beers with a touch if chocolate.

 

[levin_ae92]

I'd be carefull not to be too heavy handed with Amarillo.

I love a big hoppy ale but i've found Amarillo can be a bit overpowering.

Have you thought of using Bsaaz (Motueka) with Cascade? I'm drinking one right now with 50g of each in the cube and 50g of each dry-hopped/coffee plunger - Sensational!

I've taken your suggestion on board, and gone for something similar to Tony's bright ale clone for the hop schedule

Cascade flowers @ 7.6% alpha
B Saaz flowers @ 8.2% alpha

10g of each @ 60
20g of each @ 20
30g of each in the cube

for roughly 35IBU

might dry hop based on fermenter samples