EX#5 – Jamil’s American Pale Ale

Slightly disappointed by my first extract brews, I purchased Jamil Zainasheff’s “Brewing Classic Styles”. This is my first attempt from the book.

Category: American Pale Ale
Recipe Type: Extract
Batch Size: 19 L
Volume Boiled: 10 L
Mash Efficiency: 72 %
Total Grain/Extract: 2.94 kg
Total Hops: 75.0 g

Original Gravity: 1.053 (1.045 – 1.060)
Terminal Gravity: 1.012 (1.010 – 1.015)
Color: 8.48 °SRM (5.00 – 14.00 °SRM)
Bitterness: 41.0 IBU (30.00 – 45.00 IBU)
ABV: 5.4 % (4.50 – 6.00 %)

Ingredients

• 0.34 kg Crystal 30
• 1.1 kg     Dry Light Malt Extract
• 1.5 kg     Dry Light Malt Extract (late addition 15 mins)
• 19 g Chinook (Whole, 13.00 %AA) boiled 60 min.
• 28 g Amarillo (Whole, 8.50 %AA) boiled 15 min.
• 28 g Amarillo (Whole, 8.50 %AA) boiled 5 min.
• 0.5 ea. Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) (15 mins) (not included in calculations)
• Yeast: Fermentis Safale US-05

Notes
Targets: OG: 1052, FG: 1013, IBU: 40, SRM: 7, ABV: 5.1%
Actual OG: 1012
Bottled: 19/02/2012
Primed to 2.2 volumes using 115g dextrose.

EX#4 – American IPA

Category: American IPA
Recipe Type: Extract
Batch Size: 12 L
Volume Boiled: 9 L
Mash Efficiency: 72 %
Total Grain/Extract: 2.06 kg
Total Hops: 105.0 g

Original Gravity: 1.060 (1.056 – 1.075)
Terminal Gravity: 1.012 (1.010 – 1.018)
Color: 7.60 °SRM (6.00 – 15.00 °SRM)
Bitterness: 81.1 IBU (40.00 – 70.00 IBU)
ABV: 6.2% (5.50 – 7.50%)

Ingredients

• 0.16 kg Crystal 30
• 1.75 kg Dry Light Malt Extract
• 0.15 kg    Corn Sugar
• 25 g Chinook (Whole, 13.00 %AA) boiled 60 min.
• 30 g Cascade (Pellets, 5.50 %AA) boiled 15 min.
• 30 g Cascade (Pellets, 5.50 %AA) boiled 1 min.
• 20 g Cascade (Whole, 5.50 %AA) used as dry hop.
• 0.5 ea. Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) (15 mins) (not included in calculations)
• Yeast: Fermentis US-05 Safale US-05

Notes

Supposed to be a 10 litre batch of Imperial IPA but completely overdid it on the top-up water and screwed up my OG. So I ended up changing the brewlength on this recipe to 12 litres

Here is the original targets before I cocked up the brew day: OG: 1072, FG: 1012, IBU: 100+, SRM: 12, ABV: 7.7%

I’m expecting this to be really bitter because the IBU is way off the scale for the style due to all those 60 minute Chinook additions.

17/01/2012 – Dry-hopped with 15g cascade. FG: 1.012

22/01/2012 – Bottled with carb drops.

Tasting – Beer was overly bitter, but not undrinkable. It did take quite a while to condition.

EX#3 – Jamil’s Ordinary Bitter

Category: Standard/Ordinary Bitter
Recipe Type: Extract
Batch Size: 19 L
Volume Boiled: 10 L
Mash Efficiency: 77.2 %
Total Grain/Extract: 2.14 kg
Total Hops: 69.0 g

Original Gravity: 1.038 (1.032 – 1.040)
Terminal Gravity: 1.009 (1.007 – 1.011)
Color: 13.80 °SRM (4.00 – 14.00 °SRM)
Bitterness: 32.9 IBU (25.00 – 35.00 IBU)
ABV: 3.8 % (3.20 – 3.80%)

Ingredients

• 0.34 kg Crystal 100
• 1.8 kg Dry Light Malt Extract
• 38 g East Kent Goldings (Whole, 5.00 %AA) boiled 60 min.
• 16 g East Kent Goldings (Whole, 5.00 %AA) boiled 30 min.
• 15 g Fuggle (Pellets, 4.75 %AA) boiled 1 min.
• 0.5 ea. Whirlfloc Tablets (15 mins)
• Yeast: Fermentis Safale S-04

Notes

Actual OG 1.034. Fermentation not started nearly 24 hours later. Huge amount of sludge on top of beer.

22/01/2012 – Bottled into PET using 55g light spraymalt. FG: 1.010

17/02/2012 – First taste. Promising, but not ready to drink. Bit of astringency from yeast bite I think. Very light bodied, but nice malt flavour still coming through. Will give it another 4 weeks before tasting again.

17/03/2012 – Second taste