Oct 21, 2021
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Brew #2 - The tech review
Ingredients
Coopers Australian Pale Ale (1.7kg Liquid Malt Extract + Coopers Ale Yeast)
Light Dried Malt Extract - 1kg
Dextrose - 1kg
Brupaks Columbus Whole - 50g
Brupaks Chinook Whole - 50g
Brupaks Cenntenial Whole - 50g
Brupaks Cascade Pellets - 40g
Dextrose for priming - 170g
Process
60 min boil: 8l tap water, 1.7kg LME, 1kg DME, 1kg Dextrose (+ half a Campden tablet + lager enzyme) 30g Columbus
55 min left: 30g Chinook
50 min left: 30g Centennial
10 min left: 20g Cascade pellets
Fermenter stored at around 22 degrees C.
Dry hops (20g Columbus, 20g Chinook, 20g Centennial and 20g Cascade pellets) added in a muslin bag on day 5 of fermentation. No secondary fermenter used.
Bottles primed with dextrose solution added to the bottling vessel: 170g Dextrose / 120ml water.
Bottles conditioned for 3 weeks at 22 degrees and 2 weeks at 14 degrees.
Fun facts
Boil Size: 9l (including LME)
OG: 1.066
FG: 1.009
IBU: 55
SRM: 4.65
Yield: 16.7l
Comments
Having one beer under my belt I figured I'd just make a recipe up. Perhaps not the most sensible plan but I knew I just wanted to stick to an extract recipe so any additions I added would just improve a basic beer rather than making it anything amazing. Building on Brew #1, I knew I wanted more booze and more hops. And I read the ingredient hops in Hardcore IPA were Columbus, Simcoe and Centennial. My LHBS did not have Simcoe so I substituted with Chinook, I also had some Cascade pellets left over so I finished those up and made a 4C IPA.
I picked up a bigger brew kettle, but it's still only 9l so it could do with being bigger. I had a capable assistant on this brew so it mean that the hot break wasn't an issue and weighing and stirring could happen simultaneously!
I attempted an ice bath wort cooling process but it didn't really do the job. I will need additional cooling for my larger brew kettle next time. Overall things went pretty well on this brew and the resulting beer was indeed hoppy. My next brew (currently fermenting) is a longer boil version with late additions so we'll see what difference that makes sometime soon I expect!