Recipe from Bosium, of Jim’s Homebrew Forum, as brewed by Roosters for the recent JDW Beer Festival. Such a nice pint that, given we have the recipe on Jim’s Forum, it seemed almost obligatory to give it a bash! My first brew with dry-hopping, as well.
- Length: 25 litres
- Yeast: Nottingham
- OG 1.050
- FG 5.8Bx = 1.015
- ABV 4.5%
Recipe:
| Fermentable | Colour | lb: oz | Grams | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pale Malt | 5 EBC | 10 lbs. 11.7 oz | 4870 grams | 84% |
| Munich Malt | 20 EBC | 1 lbs. 0.4 oz | 465 grams | 8% |
| Caramunich I | 90 EBC | 0 lbs. 8.1 oz | 230 grams | 4% |
| Melanoidin Malt (Weyerman | 70 EBC | 0 lbs. 4.1 oz | 115 grams | 2% |
| Crystal Malt, Dark | 300 EBC | 0 lbs. 4.1 oz | 115 grams | 2% |
| Hop Variety | Type | Alpha | Time | lb: oz | grams | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amarillo | Whole | 9.5 % | 15 mins | 0 lbs. 1.4 oz | 40 grams | 48% |
| Cascade | Whole | 5.7 % | 15 mins | 0 lbs. 1.4 oz | 40 grams | 28.8% |
| Amarillo | Whole | 9.5 % | 5 mins | 0 lbs. 1.1 oz | 30 grams | 14.5% |
| Cascade | Whole | 5.7 % | 5 mins | 0 lbs. 1.1 oz | 30 grams | 8.7% |
| Amarillo | Whole | 9.5 % | Dry-hop | 0 lbs. 1.1 oz | 30 grams | 0% |
| Cascade | Whole | 5.7 % | Dry-hop | 0 lbs. 1.1 oz | 30 grams | 0% |
| Final Volume: | 25 | Litres |
| Original Gravity: | 1.052 | |
| Final Gravity: | 1.012 | |
| Alcohol Content: | 5.2% | ABV |
| Total Liquor: | 36.3 | Litres |
| Mash Liquor: | 14.5 | Litres |
| Mash Efficiency: | 75 | % |
| Bitterness: | 36 | EBU |
| Colour: | 29 | EBC |
Comments:
Think my digital thermometer is out – maybe by up to 5C, which is less than ideal. Mash temp was 66.6 (after 1 kettle), read by both glass thermo and the ATC, but the digital thermo was reading 71C.
Only got 23 litres of wort – the hops ate up an awful lot today! Refractometer was reading 10.6°Bx at first, but after a while was reading 12.6°Bx, which matches the hydrometer reading of 1.049. Does it take a while to stabilise?
2011-05-17: Filled 2 x 5 litre mini-kegs, plus 20 bottles. After the dry-hopping robbed me of more beer, I ended up with about 21 litres. Tastes good at bottling time, mind you. High hopes for this one!
2011-06-03: I really should have kept better notes on how I did this one. It was 3 weeks and 2 days from brewing to bottling. I believe it was 1 week @ 21C for the fermentation, then 5 more days @ 21C with the dry hops thrown in the top of the FV, then drop the ATC to 1C, which realistically means dropping the brew to around 5C, where it remained until bottling. Wife and friends all agree that this is the best beer I’ve brewed – hence the need to try and remember how I did it, as another set of ingredients are on their way from themaltmiller.co.uk!