Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Brew Seven - Amber Ale

I'm going to be drowning in beer at this rate because I now have approximately 70 bottles in storage (750ml bottles at that).  Brew Six had been in the fermenter for nearly three weeks now and the gravity is reading around 1015 so it was time to bottle it and since it's more efficient to be bottles and making more beer at the same time I decided to make an Amber Ale based upon the Brewing Classic Styles "West Coast Blaster" but again there were compromises in the ingredients:

Extract: 
3.0 kg Blackrock Light LME (2 x 1.5kg cans)
0.5 kg Briess Munich LME

The recipe asks for 3.97 kg of English Pale Ale LME and only 318 g of the Munich LME.

Steeping Grains:
0.5 kg Pale Crystal
250g Dark Crystal
250g Abbey Malt
85g Pale Chocolate

The Abbey replaced the Victory that the recipe asks for. The 'Dark' Crystal matches up 120°L Crystal whereas the 40°L Crystal is the Pale Crystal.

Hops:
Quite a few recipes in the Brewing Classic Styles book asks for Horizon hops which Brewers Coop and Hauraki don't stock.  This recipe asks for it so I substituted for Northern Brewer.


30g Northern Brewer (@ 60 minutes)
30g Northern Brewer (@ 10 minutes)
30g Centennial (@ 10 minutes)
30g Cascade (@ 0 minutes)
30g Centennial (@ 0 minutes)

The recipe asked for Cascade at 10 minutes but I had to get a minimum of 50g of Northern Brewer and I didn't have any Cascade so I figured I might as well swap out the Cascade for the Northern Brewer assuming it was better to use the Cascade at flame out.

Boil Volume: 10 Litres

Yeast:
US05

Notes:
1. Original gravity approximately 1050.

2. The whole process including bottling Brew Six, cleaning and sterilising and making Brew Seven took 2 3/4 hours.

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