Brew Number

103

Style

Little Puppy Pale Ale

 Ingredients

18-Sep-2004 Little Puppy Pale Ale

A ProMash Brewing Session Report
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Brewing Date: Saturday September 18, 2004
Head Brewer: Simon Barrett (GL)
Asst Brewer: Dallas
Recipe: Little Puppy Pale Ale

Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (L): 35.00 Wort Size (L): 35.00
Total Grain (Kg): 8.55
Anticipated OG: 1.054 Plato: 13.31
Anticipated EBC: 11.2
Anticipated IBU: 34.9
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70 %
Wort Boil Time: 80 Minutes

Actual OG: 1.054 Plato: 13.31
Actual FG: 1.012 Plato: 3.07

Alc by Weight: 4.32 by Volume: 5.52 From Measured Gravities.
ADF: 76.9 RDF 64.0 Apparent & Real Degree of Fermentation.

Actual Mash System Efficiency: 72 %
Anticipated Points From Mash: 53.90
Actual Points From Mash: 55.31

Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential EBC
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4.7 0.40 kg. JWM Caramalt Australia 1.036 56
4.1 0.35 kg. Cara-Pils Dextrine Malt 1.033 4
4.7 0.40 kg. IMC Munich Australia 1.038 12
3.5 0.30 kg. Hoepfner Wheat Malt Light Germany 1.040 5
83.0 7.10 kg. IMC Ale Malt Australia 1.038 4

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.

Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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15.00 g. Hallertau Northern Brewer Pellet 10.00 13.8 60 min.
7.50 g. Cascade Pellet 5.40 3.7 60 min.
40.00 g. Cascade Pellet 5.40 5.3 15 min.
10.00 g. Chinook Pellet 12.20 1.9 5 min.
50.00 g. Cascade Pellet 5.40 4.1 5 min.
50.00 g. Cascade Pellet 5.40 4.1 1 min.
10.00 g. Chinook Pellet 12.20 1.9 1 min.

Extras

Amount Name Type Time
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0.50 Unit(s)Whirlfloc Fining 60 Min.(boil)
2.00 Tbsp Bread yeast Other 60 Min.(boil)

Yeast
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WYeast 1056 Amercan Ale/Chico

Brewing notes

Yeast

Wyeast American Ale 1056. 2nd gen from fridge. Take 2 l of 1.052 Kirrin lager, frozen. Thaw, dilute, boil, cool. Add 1056, brew 4 days, cool in fridge, tip off as much liquid as possible, warm up.Average to reasonable amount of yeast sediment.

Crush

All grain crushed once on 4th setting using power drill, except wheat crushed on 2nd setting. Quite fine.

Mash

Water in HLT 78 degrees, 22.5 l to esky, wait 5 mins, adda little cold water, get 73 degrees. Malt in, mix well, 64 degrees. (Malt was outside overnight, pretty cold). Add 2 l strike water. Add 1 l boiling water. Get 66.5 degrees. Install thermocouples and monitor. 60 mins, temp 66.2 degrees on probe thermometer.

Sparge

Dump 7l at 100 degrees into tun, get bed temp 73 degrees, mix well, leave 5 mins, recirc 6 l slow at 2 l/min, drain fast to boiler. Sticks after a while. Refill with 22 l at 85 degrees, mix up well to unstick, recirc 4 l drain to boiler. Get 44 l at 1.044 = 72 % eff.

Boil

Lift boiler on to burner using winch, put lid on, reaches boil in 30 min. Boil 20 mins, add bittering hops, rest of hop additions as per recipe. Post boil 36 l. Cool 40 mins, sg 1.054. Double drop 18 l and 12 l, separate fermenters. Pitch yeast. At 22 degrees. Put both fermenters in water bath. After 2 hrs, change water in bath. Holds at about 20 degrees.

Ferment

Blue top fermenter, 18 l, 1.054. Pitched 18 Sep 12 pm. 19 Sep, big krausen, no bubbling (leaking), 19 degrees. 20 Sep 18 deg big krausen. 21 Sep, 18 deg, 1.030. 22 Sep 16.4 deg, out of water bath, 1.024. Rouse with a swirl. 24 Sep, 19 degrees, 1.014. 27 Sep 18 degrees 1.010. 29 Sep drop to jerrycan into fridge. 3 Oct, out of fridge, prime with 4.5 g/l dextrose, bottle, store in shed.

Small fermenter, 12 l, 1.054. Pitched 18 Sep 12 pm. 19 sep, big krausen, no bubbling (leaking). 20 sep, 18 deg, big krausen. 21 sep, 18 deg, 1.028. 22 sep, out of water bath, 1.027. Rouse with a swirl. 24 Sep, 19 degrees, 1.012. 27 sep 18 degrees, 1.009. 29 Sep drop to jerrycan into fridge.3 Oct, out of fridge, prime with 4.5 g/l dextrose, bottle, store in shed. 7 October, give each bottle a shake and store in laundry.

Tasting notes

19 Oct, 16 days old. Not quite clear. Dark golden colour. Floral and citrus aroma, a bit of grapefruit. Low carbonation, OK not spectacular head. Clean malt up front, a little sweet in the middle, maybe priming sugar, maybe just fruity, then clean lingering grapefruity bitterness, which to me balances it out quite well. Very nice beer, needs a bit more gas. Does have a slightly coarse flavour to it which is maybe too much cascade.

30 Oct, taste against bottled LCPA. Colour, mine is slightly darker. LCPA is much more clear until I deliberately stirred up some yeast. LCPA head is thin, mine is better but still not optimal. Mine floral hop aroma, LCPA bit more fuity aroma. Taste is very similar. Mine is slightly more crystal sweet up front. LCPA malt is slightly drier. Mine has fruity hop character in the middle, citrusy slightly grapefruit lingering hop aftertaste. LCPA a little more subdued in the aftertaste one or two less IBUs maybe. But that was written knowing which was which. I closed my eyes, and swapped the glasses around a few times, and...I couldnt tell which was which.