11# golden promise
3# white wheat
1# carapils
1# flaked wheat
6 oz honey malt
Citra/Rakau/Galaxy in that order of percentages
7 oz between 5min and whirlpool
8 oz dry hops (2 as ferm slows and 6 post ferm)
Gigayeast VT
Beautiful color
11# golden promise
3# white wheat
1# carapils
1# flaked wheat
6 oz honey malt
Citra/Rakau/Galaxy in that order of percentages
7 oz between 5min and whirlpool
8 oz dry hops (2 as ferm slows and 6 post ferm)
Gigayeast VT
Beautiful color
A little too milky for my taste, but to each his own. The prototypical NEIPAs are supposed to be hazy, not milky opaque.
But the joy of homebrewing is making it your own.
Starting a debate about how much haze is too much is a new one for me
Sure thing.
5 gallon batch
8 lb 2-Row Pale Malt (56.1%)
3 lb Vienna Malt (21.1%)
1 lb Flaked Wheat (7%)
1 lb Flaked Oats (7%)
1 lb Honey (7%)
4 oz Honey Malt (1.8%)
Note: The honey is 7% by weight, but it contributes much more than that to the fermentable sugar percentage.
FWIW I use WLP007 for yeast. With this recipe it got me from 1.074 to 1.013 (8% abv and super-drinkable).
I tweak my hops schedule every time, but here is the one that was most like a Green/Julius hybrid:
1 oz Simcoe - 15 min boil
1 oz Citra- 5 min boil
1 oz Mosaic - 0 min flameout
1 oz Citra day 3 dry hop
1 oz Galaxy day 3 dry hop
2 oz Citra day 6 dry hop
2 oz Galaxy day 6 dry hop
On another I used just Galaxy/Citra/Azacca in equal parts.
My next iteration will be ABC (Azacca/Bravo/Citra). I'm really digging Azacca for tropical fruit flavors, possibly even more than Galaxy.
Picture: Julius on the left, mine on the right.
I call it "I Like Big Hops (and I Cannot Lie)"
I'd like multiple people to chime in on this, but when you say "Dry hop on day 3" are you counting the day you brewed as Day 1 or the following day as Day 1?
It's more important to target an attenuation %, that will be somewhat specific to your system. But to answer you question, I usually do days post pitch, so day 1 is 24 hours after brew day.
This USC the plan I follow also. So if I pitch Friday at 5pm then Saturday at 5pm would be 24hrs later and I consider that day 1 so Monday would be day 3 and that's when I would do the first rd of dry hops.
The yeast you are using makes a big difference too, as some can be quite fast, like London III needs an addition at like day 1.5
I'd like to introduce some Nelson hops into the mix.
My last batch was:
30 min whirlpool of:
2 oz. citra
2 oz. mosaic
1.0z simcoe
Dryop @4th day of:
2 0z. citra
1 oz. mosaic
1 oz. simcoe
Same dryhop @ 10th day
Which hop additions would you recommend swapping for Nelson? I have 4 oz. on hand.
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I think following attenuation/gravity reading makes more since than choosing the day to dry-hop. But pulling gravity reading with a hydrometer will waste a lot of beer. Any way to follow it with a refractometer? Any suggestions at what gravity to do the first dry hop? I assume the 2nd dry hop would want to be within 4-5 points of hitting FG.
I tend to start fermentation off around 62 at let it free rise to 66-68 degrees through the first 3 days or so of fermentation. At that point, I like to move it somewhere that it can finish off in the 68-70-72 range.
So has anyone got the perfect recipe yet.
I`m just about to purchase my malt and hops.
Do you think Golden promise pale Malt would be a good base
https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=17
Please someone post an updated perfect 5 gallon recipe as i`m brewing it for my wedding
Thanks
Try the Irish Ale malt. I liked it better than GP
11# golden promise
3# white wheat
1# carapils
1# flaked wheat
6 oz honey malt
Citra/Rakau/Galaxy in that order of percentages
7 oz between 5min and whirlpool
8 oz dry hops (2 as ferm slows and 6 post ferm)
Gigayeast VT
Hey LL I really like the look of this recipe. I purchased the grains today for it. Any chance you can elaborate a little more on the recipe? Batch size? Mash time and temp? Ferm schedule? Also not quite sure how to break down the hop schedule by percentages. Any input on that? Newer to advanced brewing. Thanks in advance for anymore insight.
Okay, so I'll post my hop schedule with a BIG caveat:
this batch has much more bitterness than my last one, largely due to going too big on the flameout addition. Then after about a month in the keg, when the volatile fresh hops was fading, I closed-loop transferred it to a 2.5 gal keg with 2 more oz of Galaxy dry hop. The result: while the flavor is spot on to what I was aiming for (and fresh once again due to the second keg dry hop), the bitterness is approaching west coast IPA bitterness. I left that out of the description because it was an error on my part that doesn't take away from the flavor and aroma.
Also, it was my first time using Azacca. I used it because it supposedly adds tropical fruit, and I wanted to move away from the dankness I got from my previous batch (further below). I did not get a strong dankness from the Galaxy. A little, but not on par with Simcoe.
Here is what I did:
1 oz Azacca - 15 min boil
0 min flameout:
1 oz each: Azacca, Citra, Galaxy
Dry Hop - H Kreusen:
1 oz each: Azacca, Citra, Galaxy
Dry Hop - Post-ferm:
1 oz each: Azacca, Citra, Galaxy
Next time I would only use Citra in the flameout and either push the other two ounces into dry hop or even keg hop.
The batch before was also excellent, but a little more dankness than I wanted. But here it is:
1 oz Simcoe - 15 min boil
1 oz Citra- 5 min boil
1 oz Mosaic - 0 min flameout
1 oz Citra day 3 dry hop
1 oz Galaxy day 3 dry hop
2 oz Citra day 6 dry hop
2 oz Galaxy day 6 dry hop
What would you say your target bitterness is? I know beersmith doesn't calculate whirlpool hops or dry hop residual bitterness (debated topic) very well or at all, but without those factors i'm getting pretty low numbers. It's basically a pale ale bitterness (~31 IBU) with a slightly higher ABV.
Also do you whirlpool or just flameout & chill?
I'm sorry if you've repeated this before, I've gone through 30 pages and couldn't find an answer! Cheers
I actually do aim for low bitterness (30-40 IBU) because my favorite versions of NEIPA (Julius, Green) are very low on bitterness.
I have done both. Usually I like to fo flameout and chill, but on this last version (the too bitter one), I did an actual whirlpool (with the boil hops staying in for the ride).
It's worth noting that while I got a lot more bitterness than I wanted, it still wasn't an aggressively bitter beer. I'd say it was in the 50-60 IBU range. But I don't want my NEIPA bitter, I want it smooth and quaffable.
My Rakau recipe above, although in the Julius thread (I know and apologize), wasn't necessarily a clone. The malt bill surely is a great base to try and nail down the hop combination for julius, but as for mine with the citra galaxy and Rakau it was not necessarily going for Julius. It was very peachy and apricoty from that's rakau. First time I used it and I loved how it came out.
As for your recipe... I'd do a straight swap out the pilsner for wheat malt to help in the appearance and body. Back the flaked oats down a bit and do a 50/50 addition of flaked oats/carapils. Lastly I'd save yourself 3-4% for a little c15-c20 for a little color and sweetness.
As for the hops... you've got basically 2 oz in the entire hot side of your brew. Not saying there's anything wrong with that but if you decide to keep it there I'd massively increase your dry hop additions. You could keep the fermentation addition at 2 oz, I personally don't like to waste a huge addition while there's so much airlock activity. That second addition though after fermentation is complete you could easily get away with at least a 6 oz addition. I'd do 2 oz each of your galaxy and mosaic but toss in an extra 2 oz of citra as well.
I've never bittered with Waimea so can't comment on that. For a safe bet though either toss in an oz of Columbus or magnum or warrior at 60min or do a .5 oz FWH with Columbus. You definitely have room in your kettle for the IBUs
Julius and Green are over 100 IBUs, the goal in attempting to close Julius and Green is getting a smooth bitterness, not a low bitterness. Supposedly extracts play a role here.
So this was my second attempt at Julius. It's been a year since I had the real thing, so not sure it's spot on, but it's damn tasty. Did a 10 gallon batch and split into 2 fermenters. One with 1318 and the other with my standby 1968 ESB. They are very different beers. 1968 isn't remotely close to a New England style in appearance, nose or fruitiness. The beer on the left is 1318 and the right is 1968
Julius clone-2nd version
10 gallons
22lbs Maris otter
4lb white wheat
5lb carafoam
1.5lb flaked oats
Mash water-9 gallons at 165 degrees for mash at 154. Rest for 60. Sparge water 9 gallons at 170. Collected 13 gallons
OG- 1.076
1oz mosaic-45
1oz Amarillo-45
2oz each citra, mosaic Amarillo- 15
2oz each citra, mosaic Amarillo - 10
1oz mosaic, Amarillo and 2oz citra- 5
2oz each mosaic, citra, Amarillo 30 min steep at 170 degrees
Wyeast 1318 and 1968 in different fermenters
On day 4 of fermentation, 1oz each into each fermenter
FG on 1318 was 1.016
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