How did this turn out? I haven't had this beer yet as I'm in Australia - It's hard to get (if at all)
It's my brothers go to beer, so I would love to brew it when he is home next.
Look forward to your tips!
Cheers
5 Gallon batch size
OG=1.040 FG=1.012 SRM=6 IBU=40 (Rager) I got 70% Extract efficiency. I think I mashed at 148F.
6# 12oz Briess 2-row
1# 2oz Briess Caramel 20L
12oz flaked oats
4oz Briess Red Wheat
8g Crystal 3.4AA leaf 60 min
6g Simcoe 14.1AA leaf 60 min
14g Amarillo 8.6AA pellet 20 min
14g Crystal 3.4AA leaf 20 min
14g Simcoe 14.1AA leaf 20 min
14g Amarillo 8.6AA pellet 5 min
14g Crystal 3.4AA leaf 5 min
Dryhop (7 days)
14g Simcoe 14.1AA
14g Amarillo 8.6AA
14g Crystal 3.4AA
I used WLP862 Cry Havoc (british yeast qualities) because its my house strain. I plan on culturing some Bells yeast soon. Suggest WLP001 or equivalent if you don't have Bells yeast, but anything mild/neutral will work.
My only change would be less of the Crystal hops for flavor, maybe half, and add simcoe to balance the IBU, or just increase one of the bittering additions. I also love Amarillo, so I wouldn't be opposed to bumping up the 5 minute addition of Amarillo for more aroma. I thought this was a really close recipe as it is. I will probably add about 1/4 oz of Citra for dryhop next time to get a mild tangerine.
For extract, just use some Briess CBW Golden Light and make sure you pitch enough yeast and have a healthy fermentation. You will finish a tiny bit higher (1.014 maybe?), but it should be close enough. If you think that's a little dark or too much crystal malt in the extract, the Briess CBW Pilsen Light has less crystal malt sweetness to me. I don't think the flaked adjuncts are all that important in this beer.
Cheers
How was the bitterness with this??
I have just entered the recipe in Beersmith, but the IBU is about 29 when. This says 40, and the IBU according to Founders is 42.
Thanks for posting. Keen to try this one soon!
:Thanks for the thorough reply, Brewski. I was already planning to go ahead and transfer to a secondary tomorrow, but I feel a lot better with your confirmation. The beer (I guess it's safe to call it beer at this pointThis has many answers. You can dry hop in primary but I don't recommend it if you want to reuse the yeast as the hop trub will carry over into the next beer. I do my hops at 3-5 days of contact time, usually 3 days though, so I like to wait until about 9-12 days before adding dryhops so any yeast cleanup and beer clarification can happen. The day before you want to bottle or keg it cold crash for 24 hours (you can do this for longer and dryhop cold as well, I believe there are a number of threads on here recommending warm dryhopping though). When you do rack into the bottling bucket I'd recommend leaving a bit behind in the fermenter and only taking clear beer as there will be less sediment in all of your bottles. Also, stir gently to maintain an even mixture of priming solution to beer in your bucket. Don't be afraid to move the beer off the hops and hit it with a second dryhopping if it's not strong enough for you you can also leave it on and add more but I don't like the hop polyphenols you get from too long of a high dryhop contact time (I am more sensitive to them).
Sorry about the late response. You'll develop your own dryhopping preferences over time through experimentation but this will get you started at least. Impressive that you bit this recipe off as your first homebrew. Hope it turns out great for you and that we've helped to create a homebrewer for life.
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) has been in the primary for right at 9 days as I type this, and fermentation has really died down in the last 24-36 hours.
5 Gallon batch size
OG=1.040 FG=1.012 SRM=6 IBU=40 (Rager) I got 70% Extract efficiency. I think I mashed at 148F.
6# 12oz Briess 2-row
1# 2oz Briess Caramel 20L
12oz flaked oats
4oz Briess Red Wheat
8g Crystal 3.4AA leaf 60 min
6g Simcoe 14.1AA leaf 60 min
14g Amarillo 8.6AA pellet 20 min
14g Crystal 3.4AA leaf 20 min
14g Simcoe 14.1AA leaf 20 min
14g Amarillo 8.6AA pellet 5 min
14g Crystal 3.4AA leaf 5 min
Dryhop (7 days)
14g Simcoe 14.1AA
14g Amarillo 8.6AA
14g Crystal 3.4AA
I used WLP862 Cry Havoc (british yeast qualities) because its my house strain. I plan on culturing some Bells yeast soon. Suggest WLP001 or equivalent if you don't have Bells yeast, but anything mild/neutral will work.
My only change would be less of the Crystal hops for flavor, maybe half, and add simcoe to balance the IBU, or just increase one of the bittering additions. I also love Amarillo, so I wouldn't be opposed to bumping up the 5 minute addition of Amarillo for more aroma. I thought this was a really close recipe as it is. I will probably add about 1/4 oz of Citra for dryhop next time to get a mild tangerine.
For extract, just use some Briess CBW Golden Light and make sure you pitch enough yeast and have a healthy fermentation. You will finish a tiny bit higher (1.014 maybe?), but it should be close enough. If you think that's a little dark or too much crystal malt in the extract, the Briess CBW Pilsen Light has less crystal malt sweetness to me. I don't think the flaked adjuncts are all that important in this beer.
Cheers
Made the all grain version of this a couple weeks back according to the above recipe and I must tip my hat to you Brewski09, this is a FANTASTIC clone! Mine came out a touch more fruity, probably because I threw in maybe an extra 1/2 - 1oz more Amarillo in order to use up extra I had lying around. Will definitely brew again!
And BTW... O-H!
