The brew day went really well, 5 gallons AG in 5 1/2 hours is pretty good to me! Here is the recipe, this may take a while to read, it's a massive recipe...
9 lbs 2-row
1 lbs Dingemans Caravienne
1 hopshot
1 oz of Argentina Cascade
2 packets US-05 dry yeast.
So I used my large mash tun as my HLT and I brought out the bucket lauter tun. I mashed in a 20 qt stock pot and transferred into the lauter tun.
The hops and the refractometer sneaking in the pic.
Transferring into the fermenter. I am using a little do-dad I forgot I had, it fans the wort out to aerate it. This also was the first time I got to use the brew hauler! It works fantastic too!
After some more aerating, right before pitching yeast.
The next morning I have active fermentation. I had a OG of 1.055 which was a great 80% efficiency, that makes me happy! Yay!
Side oddness, I don't know what the hell this is, but it may taste likes tapioca. This was taken from the boil after it was cooled. We shall see what happens here...
3 comments:
You won the hopshot? You suck man. Jealous. The recipe looks good - I've got an amber kegged right now. It had been a really long time since I've had an amber but now that I brewed it I'm super glad I did, a great beer style. Have you used Argentina Cascade before? I just picked up a few ounces and really wanted to try them in the blonde I just brewed, but I got the itch and had to brew with what I had.
Yup, I won the hopshot! I am stoked about it! I took the cap off and stuck my nose down there and you won't have any problems telling that it's hops!! haha! Then of course I had to taste it, wowie zowie!!!! It's hops alright!!!
I have not brewed an amber, but I wanted something light for the hopshot and for the ease of brewing. This brew was a much better brew day than before. It made me realize that I need to get a few more things in order for my ten gallon system.
I have not used the Argentina Cascade, I tried Brian's pale ale that he used and it was really nice! Very smooth and spicy. The thing that bothered me, is the LHBS here gave me these when I asked for regular old cascade hops. I did some reading and they are not close hops at all. So, they will be fine, I liked the aroma they gave, but I wish he would have offered a true replacement, not just something that has the same name. Oh well though, I'm still going to drink the beer!!!!! haha!!!
The Argentina Cascade is definately different. I used it because std cascade wasn't available, although i was warned that it wasn't nearly the same. I think it is a more earthy aroma, almost nutty. Those crazy Argentines should have just named it something else.
I want to give your rye ipe a go. I'm ready for a serious hop beer.
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