botany bay ipa
brewed: 11/06/14
pitched: 11/06/14
bottled: 26/06/14
subsequent batch info: n/a
ingredients:
4.74kg joe white traditional ale
380gm joe white crystal medium
160gm joe white wheat
160gm dextrose
1 tablet whirlfloc
0.5 teaspoon yeast nutrient
15gm chinook (pellets, 13 aa%, 90 mins - first wort)
20gm chinook (pellets, 13 aa%, 20 mins)
30gm chinook (pellets, 13 aa%, 10 mins)
30gm centennial (pellets, 9.5 aa%, 5 mins)
30gm simcoe (pellets, 13 aa%, 5 mins)
30gm chinook (pellets, 7.6 aa%, dry hop after fermentation finished - for 4 days)
30gm centennial (pellets, 9.5 aa%, dry hop after fermentation finished - for 4 days)
30gm simcoe (pellets, 13 aa%, dry hop after fermentation finished - for 4 days)
2 packs mangrove jacks M44 - US west coast yeast
process:
20L batch, step mash, no sparge, mash at 66C for 80 mins, mash out at 76C for 10 mins, boil 90 mins, plate chilled, 16C fermentation, 2C cold crash
estimated OG: 1.060
actual OG: 1.060
estimated FG: 1.013
actual FG: 1.011
%AbV: 7% bottled
ibu: 72
brewing notes:
28/05/14 - tinkered with this recipe slightly to account for what i had on hand. will look to brew this one next. i want me a big IPA. it is also reconciliation week in australia and accordingly i would like to offer my respect to the gadigal people of the eora nation; the aboriginal population and original custodians of the land. botany bay is obviously a place steeped in australian history and one which i would like to pay respect to, from a perspective of a coming together and inter-cultural understanding of australia's initial inhabitants, and the many new people who call her home. this beer will stand as my means of showing that respect. botany bay was just down the road from the street i grew up on so has a lot of personal significance for me also.
11/06/14 - just brewed and pitched this little baby. SO excited. had a sneaky taste as it was going into the fermenter and damn it was nice and hoppy. i love the taste of chinook and this is my first beer with it. i might have overloaded it a bit but i'm very interested to see how it turns out. hopefully it ferments out quite speedily so i can crash chill and bottle it before we head off to the states.
17/06/14 - this yeast is SLOW! haven't tested the gravity yet but m44 is notoriously slow and was so for me too. gave me a bit of a high krausen that popped of my fermenter lid but wasn't gushing like a volcano so that was good. gonna check gravity tonight and hopefully it's ready for some dry hop action. just tested this one and it's only at 1.027 after a bit over a week. VERY slow. in the interest of time i've had to increase the temp now to 17C which i probably should have started it at. no worries. just need to get it bottled before 26th!
tasting notes:
17/06/14 - has a first gravity sample taste and although the gravity was still quite high, it tasted marvellous. still needs some thinning out but the hops were shining through. very excited for it to finish up.
25/06/14 - just bottled this and had a taste. holy CRAP. AMAZING. singin' too-ral-i, oo-ral-i addity...singin' too-ral-i, oo-ral-i aaaaay. can't wait to taste this one when we get back from our trip in 4 weeks. it should be awesome by the time we get back. very very happy with this yeast so far. clumped up beautifully at the bottom of the fermenter and had the beer tasting super clean.
31/07/14 - had my first taste of it today! so far, quite nice! very big chinook hit in the nose, and the simcoe and centennial seem to give it a somewhat sharper note. a slight alcohol presence is there but overall a very balanced IPA albeit on the bitter side for a non-imperial IPA. came in a lot darker than i first thought also. will try it again in coming days and offer it to some mates. from the first taste though, i might look to decrease the sugar/dextrose in a future attempt/s, to drop the alcohol content down closer to 6%. i've started to steer away from higher gravity beers as i don't enjoy the 'alcohol' taste from bigger beers. either that or not use as much chinook as the pine-ness paired with the alcohol taste makes for what i would describe as a 'sharpish' taste that needs some sweetening. perhaps i could increase the caramel malt percentage too and add carapils instead of wheat. overall impression so far is that it's closer to an imperial IPA taste-wise, but i think it'll grow on me.
02/08/14 - well smack me silly. i was drinking it too cold the other day (above post). had some today and let it sit out a bit to warm up slightly. was a damn WINNER. tasted exactly as i wanted it too. nice and piney with a pleasant and subtle fruity citrusy backing from the simcoe and centennial hops. really happy now as i was quite worried initially. there is a competition coming up at the end of the month; i might enter this for it for shits and giggles.
09/09/14 - just about to drink the last of this beer. overall i've been happy with it. not my best IPA but far from my worst. it has dulled slightly with age in the bottle but i believe it is a nice mix of malt and bitterness. for some reason i think it could be the sharpness i associate with the wheat malt that perhaps gives it a slight bite. it has mellowed with age in the bottle but i don't know i'll be including wheat in my future IPAs. it came in a little darker than the image suggests which is odd considering the ingredients. i do believe it would have gone well in the competition but lo and behold, every time a competition comes up and i'm excited to enter a beer, for one reason or another there is an issue with getting it in to the place. so sadly, i didn't enter it. all things well though, pretty excited about this beer.
brew day / beer pictures:
pitched: 11/06/14
bottled: 26/06/14
subsequent batch info: n/a
ingredients:
4.74kg joe white traditional ale
380gm joe white crystal medium
160gm joe white wheat
160gm dextrose
1 tablet whirlfloc
0.5 teaspoon yeast nutrient
15gm chinook (pellets, 13 aa%, 90 mins - first wort)
20gm chinook (pellets, 13 aa%, 20 mins)
30gm chinook (pellets, 13 aa%, 10 mins)
30gm centennial (pellets, 9.5 aa%, 5 mins)
30gm simcoe (pellets, 13 aa%, 5 mins)
30gm chinook (pellets, 7.6 aa%, dry hop after fermentation finished - for 4 days)
30gm centennial (pellets, 9.5 aa%, dry hop after fermentation finished - for 4 days)
30gm simcoe (pellets, 13 aa%, dry hop after fermentation finished - for 4 days)
2 packs mangrove jacks M44 - US west coast yeast
process:
20L batch, step mash, no sparge, mash at 66C for 80 mins, mash out at 76C for 10 mins, boil 90 mins, plate chilled, 16C fermentation, 2C cold crash
estimated OG: 1.060
actual OG: 1.060
estimated FG: 1.013
actual FG: 1.011
%AbV: 7% bottled
ibu: 72
brewing notes:
28/05/14 - tinkered with this recipe slightly to account for what i had on hand. will look to brew this one next. i want me a big IPA. it is also reconciliation week in australia and accordingly i would like to offer my respect to the gadigal people of the eora nation; the aboriginal population and original custodians of the land. botany bay is obviously a place steeped in australian history and one which i would like to pay respect to, from a perspective of a coming together and inter-cultural understanding of australia's initial inhabitants, and the many new people who call her home. this beer will stand as my means of showing that respect. botany bay was just down the road from the street i grew up on so has a lot of personal significance for me also.
11/06/14 - just brewed and pitched this little baby. SO excited. had a sneaky taste as it was going into the fermenter and damn it was nice and hoppy. i love the taste of chinook and this is my first beer with it. i might have overloaded it a bit but i'm very interested to see how it turns out. hopefully it ferments out quite speedily so i can crash chill and bottle it before we head off to the states.
17/06/14 - this yeast is SLOW! haven't tested the gravity yet but m44 is notoriously slow and was so for me too. gave me a bit of a high krausen that popped of my fermenter lid but wasn't gushing like a volcano so that was good. gonna check gravity tonight and hopefully it's ready for some dry hop action. just tested this one and it's only at 1.027 after a bit over a week. VERY slow. in the interest of time i've had to increase the temp now to 17C which i probably should have started it at. no worries. just need to get it bottled before 26th!
tasting notes:
17/06/14 - has a first gravity sample taste and although the gravity was still quite high, it tasted marvellous. still needs some thinning out but the hops were shining through. very excited for it to finish up.
25/06/14 - just bottled this and had a taste. holy CRAP. AMAZING. singin' too-ral-i, oo-ral-i addity...singin' too-ral-i, oo-ral-i aaaaay. can't wait to taste this one when we get back from our trip in 4 weeks. it should be awesome by the time we get back. very very happy with this yeast so far. clumped up beautifully at the bottom of the fermenter and had the beer tasting super clean.
31/07/14 - had my first taste of it today! so far, quite nice! very big chinook hit in the nose, and the simcoe and centennial seem to give it a somewhat sharper note. a slight alcohol presence is there but overall a very balanced IPA albeit on the bitter side for a non-imperial IPA. came in a lot darker than i first thought also. will try it again in coming days and offer it to some mates. from the first taste though, i might look to decrease the sugar/dextrose in a future attempt/s, to drop the alcohol content down closer to 6%. i've started to steer away from higher gravity beers as i don't enjoy the 'alcohol' taste from bigger beers. either that or not use as much chinook as the pine-ness paired with the alcohol taste makes for what i would describe as a 'sharpish' taste that needs some sweetening. perhaps i could increase the caramel malt percentage too and add carapils instead of wheat. overall impression so far is that it's closer to an imperial IPA taste-wise, but i think it'll grow on me.
02/08/14 - well smack me silly. i was drinking it too cold the other day (above post). had some today and let it sit out a bit to warm up slightly. was a damn WINNER. tasted exactly as i wanted it too. nice and piney with a pleasant and subtle fruity citrusy backing from the simcoe and centennial hops. really happy now as i was quite worried initially. there is a competition coming up at the end of the month; i might enter this for it for shits and giggles.
09/09/14 - just about to drink the last of this beer. overall i've been happy with it. not my best IPA but far from my worst. it has dulled slightly with age in the bottle but i believe it is a nice mix of malt and bitterness. for some reason i think it could be the sharpness i associate with the wheat malt that perhaps gives it a slight bite. it has mellowed with age in the bottle but i don't know i'll be including wheat in my future IPAs. it came in a little darker than the image suggests which is odd considering the ingredients. i do believe it would have gone well in the competition but lo and behold, every time a competition comes up and i'm excited to enter a beer, for one reason or another there is an issue with getting it in to the place. so sadly, i didn't enter it. all things well though, pretty excited about this beer.
brew day / beer pictures: