Blonde Ale Centennial Blonde (Simple 4% All Grain, 5 & 10 Gall)

[Kirkwooder]

I just pitched my rehydrqated Notty into 5.5 gallons of this.:rockin: I used pellets for the first 3 hop additions and used 0.1 Lb of my own cascade hops for the final hop addition. Hope all turns out well. I'll let you all know in a month or so! Thanks

 

[NewWestBrewer]

Man...I brewed this about 8 weeks ago and it was my first AG. (BIAB method) I thought I must have screwed it up because it had this sharp aftertaste...almost like plastic. I got nervous as I dunk sparged in my bottling bucket(safe I checked). Just opened one that has been in the fridge for a week and the splastic taste is gone and drinking beautifully. Well done Biermuncher.

 

[HammelBrau]

Another 'thumbs up' for this recipe, not that one is needed. Neighbors, friends and I killed a 5g keg of this in exactly two weeks. I think that's a record with my brewery. Note to self: never brew less than 10 gallons of this.

Thanks for the recipe. Where do I give all the thumbs up, 5 stars, and a bag of chocolates??? Cheers...

 

[scutiger]

Thanks for the recipe, I brewed this up a couple weeks ago and was just waiting for an open keg to put it in. Tastes great, however I was a little shocked to see my FG hit 1.002! Needless to say this is very light, not complaining, just more alcohol than expected

 

[DaNewf]

I'm enjoying a few bottles of this right now. This was my first 5 gallon all grain brew (couple of one gallon all grain brews under my belt). Tastes really nice.

Thanks for the recipe BierMuncher.

 

[daggers_nz]

re: racking onto fruit, was going to do a couple of experiments.. anyone racked onto diced fresh mango before?

 

[BrewingPeace]

I have been wanting to brew a beer, and looks like this is going to my first!!
:cheers:

 

[RickBrewski]

re: racking onto fruit, was going to do a couple of experiments.. anyone racked onto diced fresh mango before?

Sure have. Turns out wonderful. 10 primary, 6 day in Secondary for me. Good Aroma and nice mango aftertaste. Used 4 lbs of fresh diced mangos.

 

[n240sxguy]

I'm brewing this in the morning. If it turns out as good as everybody else's has, I'm gonna want to do a bigger batch next time. Here's my dilemma. I have a keggle to boil in, and my fermenter will hold 17-18 gallons. How would I scale this up to do a more concentrated batch then dilute it in the fermenter to get a full 15 gallons? Any suggestions?

 

[n240sxguy]

I think my scale F'd me on this one. Anyone know how much space the roughly 17 lbs of grain for this recipe takes up? I had it in 1 and a half 5 gallon buckets. Actually a full bottling bucket, 6 gallons?, an half a 5 gallon bucket. I'm at 17 brix, and not half way through the boil. Stupid scale! No idea how much grain is in this damn beer! I thought the mash tun looked pretty full.

 

[n240sxguy]

On a side note, this may be a blessing in disguise. Depending on how it turns out, I may dilute it a little to get back closer to the original recipe. Gee, should I mess with the hops? Maybe bump the cascade to 3/4 of an ounce? I think I may do that.

 

[n240sxguy]

Ok, finally done with brew day. I've been up for about 22 hours now, so it was a little tough. Gotta go to work tomorrow, so I can't go to sleep til tonight, but that's another problem altogether. Back to the centennial blonde blunder. I noticed that the mash was ridiculously thick. I had to add two gallons of boiling water to get it up to temp, and thin enough to even stir. Depending on how far off my scale was when I brewed my punkin ale, I could've used anything up to 25 lbs of 2-row on this one. After the boil I had about 9 gallons at 18 brix. I added 3 gallons of distilled water to get 12 gallons at 1.053. I think this will be right up my alley just like it is. Should end up about 5.5% I figure.

 

[n240sxguy]

Given the results of my brew, I assume I should pitch a second pack of yeast. Yes/No? Thoughts?

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

I have pitched a single smack pack, with no starter, into a similar gravity beer and made excellent beer.

Wait it out, keep calm and drink on

 

[n240sxguy]

My conical is full of punkin ale, so this went into two ale pails. One is bubbling away, and the other isn't too far behind.

 

[daggers_nz]

Sure have. Turns out wonderful. 10 primary, 6 day in Secondary for me. Good Aroma and nice mango aftertaste. Used 4 lbs of fresh diced mangos.

Cool thanks. Gonna do a 3x5gal split: blueberries, mango, raspberry?

 

[royal1911]

I brewed this 3 weeks ago and it's great. My LHBS was sold out of centennial so I used 1oz of willamette instead.

 

[Krazykripple]

the cascades i've got are only 6.6%aa. should i up the 60min addition of centennials or just leave it as is. brewtarget shows it coming out at around 18 ibus. i guess i wouldn't taste a huge difference

 

[daggers_nz]

calculate the AAUs from the original recipe then scale it to your AA%

 

[jwalker1140]

I brewed this 3 weeks ago and it's great. My LHBS was sold out of centennial so I used 1oz of willamette instead.

How do you like it with willamette? I've made the original twice and both have had a spicy (peppery?) bitterness that I don't really care for. I assume that's the centennial. I really like the malt bill for what it is. But for my taste, I think I need to change the first two hop additions and maybe double the amount of the cascade additions.

 

[pikeman94]

I brewed this 3 weeks ago and it's great. My LHBS was sold out of centennial so I used 1oz of willamette instead.

How was it with Willamette?

 

[paulster2626]

Another batch chugging away in the fermenter. Had to make some subs though, apparently I was out of some stuff. Had centennial and cascade though, so no biggie. Used S-04 for this one. We'll see how soon I can get this in to a keg.

 

[marvinsjunk]

Another happy CB customer. Made the recipe exactly as is for our 2nd all grain batch using BIAB. We wanted to bring some homebrew with us on vacation so we brewed with enough time to do 2 weeks primary and 2 weeks in the bottle. Couldn't be happier. The malt and hop character really balances well with the white sand, hot sun, and salty sea air. Cheers!

 

[daggers_nz]

cool photo!

 

[royal1911]

How was it with Willamette?

It was great. I will have to try again with centennial but was very happy with Willamette.

 

[Groner]

I think my scale F'd me on this one. Anyone know how much space the roughly 17 lbs of grain for this recipe takes up? I had it in 1 and a half 5 gallon buckets. Actually a full bottling bucket, 6 gallons?, an half a 5 gallon bucket. I'm at 17 brix, and not half way through the boil. Stupid scale! No idea how much grain is in this damn beer! I thought the mash tun looked pretty full.

In the future go to:

http://www.rackers.org/calcs.shtml

They have a great calculator that has kept me out of trouble on some heavy brew days. Basically tells you if your grain will fit in your mash tun (after specifying your mash tun type) along with whatever ratio of water you choose.

Enjoy!

 

[n240sxguy]

In the future go to:

http://www.rackers.org/calcs.shtml

They have a great calculator that has kept me out of trouble on some heavy brew days. Basically tells you if your grain will fit in your mash tun (after specifying your mash tun type) along with whatever ratio of water you choose.

Enjoy!

Oh it still fit. That wasn't the issue. It was just super dry at first because I used more grain than I was supposed to, and didn't have enough water for that amount. I've used just over thirty lbs of grain in my mash tun, which is about all it could fit. This was still a little shy of that, but way more than it should've been. I will check out that site to see I what it says will fit matches what I've put in it.

In my post, I was curious how much space in the buckets that amount of grain equated to. Maybe that site will help me figure that out.

 

[Krazykripple]

I just brewed this today. It was my first AG batch. I quite a few problems, but my OG was 1041 so it must have gone OK. fingers crossed it turns out well

 

[mgr_stl]

I've only found whole-leaf Centennial hops so far (Austin HB and my LHBS). If I used whole-leaf instead of pellets, would I adjust the amounts compared to the 0.25 oz @ 45 min and 0.25 oz @ 20 min? Doing the 5.5 gallon extract recipe.

 

[daggers_nz]

I've only found whole-leaf Centennial hops so far (Austin HB and my LHBS). If I used whole-leaf instead of pellets, would I adjust the amounts compared to the 0.25 oz @ 45 min and 0.25 oz @ 20 min? Doing the 5.5 gallon extract recipe.

I just used brewer's friend and did the calcs for you
http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/calculator/

there seems to be a difference of 1.71IBU for switching from pellet to leaf, assuming your AA%s are the same. So I personally wouldn't worry