Single Hop Tasting - Jan 19th

[Dirt Chicken]

Me too. What level of crystal is medium 40 or 60?

medium is 60L I believe

[jeffsmith]

Me too. What level of crystal is medium 40 or 60?

Personally I'd take that to mean anything between 40 and 75, but that's just me.

[LeafMan66_67]

At Noble Grape, medium is 60.

[akr71]

I'd suggest 60 if you've got it, the closest thing you've got if you don't. At 6% of the grain bill, I don't think the difference between 40 & 75 is enough to skew the results. This is about the hops after all.

I like LD's suggested hop bill.

[GAM]

Does this look OK.

20 liters
Color: 16 HCU (~10 SRM)
Bitterness: 48 IBU
OG: 1.055 FG: 1.010
Alcohol: 5.7% v/v (4.5% w/w)
Grain: 4.75kg American 2-row
300g American crystal 60L
25g Roasted barley
Mash: 70% efficiency
Boil: minutes SG 1.050 22 liters
Hops: 70g Mt. Hood (4.5% AA, 60 min.)
30g Mt. Hood (4.5% AA, 30 min.)
60g Mt. Hood (aroma)

Sandy

[LiverDance]

Does this look OK.

20 liters
Color: 16 HCU (~10 SRM)
Bitterness: 48 IBU
OG: 1.055 FG: 1.010
Alcohol: 5.7% v/v (4.5% w/w)
Grain: 4.75kg American 2-row
300g American crystal 60L
25g Roasted barley
Mash: 70% efficiency
Boil: minutes SG 1.050 22 liters
Hops: 70g Mt. Hood (4.5% AA, 60 min.)
30g Mt. Hood (4.5% AA, 30 min.)
60g Mt. Hood (aroma)

Sandy

change the 30 min to 20 min addition and it's right on what we are shooting for.

[Dirt Chicken]

Hows this look?
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Boil Size: 28.71 l
Post Boil Volume: 26.82 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 22.00 l
Bottling Volume: 19.16 l
Estimated OG: 1.056 SG
Estimated Color: 16.0 EBC
Estimated IBU: 48.0 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 82.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
5500.00 g Pale Malt (2 Row) US (3.9 EBC) Grain 1 94.4 %
300.00 g Crystal Malt - 60L (Thomas Fawcett) (118 Grain 2 5.2 %
25.00 g Roasted Barley (591.0 EBC) Grain 3 0.4 %
49.25 g Wakatu [7.60 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 4 36.6 IBUs
25.25 g Wakatu [7.60 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 5 11.4 IBUs
60.00 g Wakatu [7.60 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 6 0.0 IBUs

[LiverDance]

Looks good. I'm guessing you guys are adding the roast barley for a little color?

[hogie]

That amount of roasted barley (~0.5%) is negligible. Let's go with ~5% ABV, ~50IBU (60/20min split as per LD), 50g at flame-out, 5% Crystal 60 and 95% 2-row.

Also, I see there are people chiming into this thread, who haven't filled out their names/hop options on the spreadsheet.

[LiverDance]

I'm also assuming that we are all using US-05 or 1056 yeast for this brew?

[jeffsmith]

I would think any of the neutral American Ale yeasts would be fine: US-05, 1056, 1272, WLP001, WLP051.

[jeffsmith]

When are we aiming to have these brews done and ready for consumption? I can't see myself getting a brew day in until the first weekend in October at the earliest.

[hogie]

I'd like to brew this on the weekend. The timing would be ideal for me anyway...

[jeffsmith]

I'd like to brew this on the weekend. The timing would be ideal for me anyway...

I'd like to as well, but with Hoptoberfest, I doubt I'd get a chance.

[Dirt Chicken]

Forecast calls for rain for Sunday thru Monday...

so I suppose you could rig up some kind of keggle-unbrella with some duct tape and a bit'o' sweat!

[akr71]

Also, I see there are people chiming into this thread, who haven't filled out their names/hop options on the spreadsheet.

Yes, that's the last piece we need to hammer out. Who's using what? SS in on pg 3 of this thread, if you missed it.

[GAM]

I'll be next week.

Sandy

[Graham.C]

Also, I see there are people chiming into this thread, who haven't filled out their names/hop options on the spreadsheet.

Yes, that's the last piece we need to hammer out. Who's using what? SS in on pg 3 of this thread, if you missed it.

I'll check my freezer when I get home and fill out what I have to use up.

[akr71]

A question - if we are adding our hop additions to reach certain IBU levels, then shouldn't we have our brewing software all set to the same algorithm (Tinseth, Rager or Garetz)? Does anyone use anything other than Tinseth?

We could also go by AAU per addition (oz x AA)

[Stusbrews]

I like the aau proposition, simply because of the flameout addition. 2 oz of saaz is a whole lot diff than 2 oz of challenger for example.

[TimG]

Would like in on this, added my name to the spreadsheet.

[GAM]

Please add me with Mount Hood.

Sandy

[pet lion]

Sounds fun. Added myself in.

[GAM]

Northern Brewer can be my #2.

Sandy

[TimG]

Ok folks, I'm not sure who is driving this bus but it seems some folks would like to brew this weekend (me included). Can we agree on;

Two options;

1) 92% 2 row / 8% 60L
2) 90% 2 row / 8% 60L / 2% Melanoidin

Just because I like using some Mela.. ha

As far as who get's first dibs on hops, that'll be trickier. Though if two people make the same thing, that's fine too I think (just as long as most folks are different). Could go with 'first come first serve' from the spreadsheet. Would be good for folks near the top to highlight / lock in the hops they intend to use so folks farther down can decide appropriately. Shall we set a 'deadline' for hop selection. Say Friday night?

Tim