Hop Juice

[drsmurto]

Decided to clean out the hop freezer of all opened bags of hops as well as knocking off a few bags of spec grains.

So on Sunday this was the resulting brew dubbed 'HopJuice'

Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.15 kg Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) (5.9 EBC) Grain 68.60 %
1.00 kg Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann) (3.9 EBC) Grain 16.53 %
0.50 kg Crystal, Medium (BB) (170.0 EBC) Grain 8.26 %
0.35 kg Melanoidin (Weyermann) (59.1 EBC) Grain 5.79 %
0.05 kg Chocolate Malt (Joe White) (660.0 EBC) Grain 0.83 %
10.00 gm Cascade [6.30 %] (60 min) Hops 6.3 IBU
13.00 gm Chinook [12.40 %] (20 min) Hops 9.7 IBU
20.00 gm Cascade [6.30 %] (20 min) Hops 7.6 IBU
8.00 gm D Saaz [4.40 %] (20 min) Hops 2.1 IBU
25.00 gm Saaz [2.50 %] (20 min) Hops 3.8 IBU
10.00 gm Nelson Sauvin [12.40 %] (20 min) Hops 7.5 IBU
15.00 gm Chinook [12.40 %] (10 min) Hops 6.7 IBU
15.00 gm Cascade [6.00 %] (10 min) Hops 3.3 IBU
15.00 gm Styrian Goldings [4.70 %] (10 min) Hops 2.5 IBU
0.50 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
15.00 gm Cascade [6.30 %] (15 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
5.00 gm Chinook - home grown [12.40 %] (15 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
1 Pkgs Nottingham (Danstar #-) Yeast-Ale

25L, OG 1.053, 50IBU

All in a 30L fermenter without a blow off tube

Smelt amazing

Cheers
DrSmurto

[James L]

jeesus.. you might have just found a cure for AIDS there...

[Timmsy]

Or maybe started a new strain hahahaha

Nah looks interesting. Let us know how it turns out!

[Kevnlis]

Geez doc, you sure thats gonna be drinkable?

[James L]

better than drinking old goon... HAHA

[James L]

Just joking...

[Kevnlis]

better than drinking old goon... HAHA

Maybe...

[KEG]

nice pickup James


and drsmurto... well, dang. that's gonna be pretty flavour packed.

[Raw Beer Grin]

Decided to clean out the hop freezer of all opened bags of hops as well as knocking off a few bags of spec grains.

So on Sunday this was the resulting brew dubbed 'HopJuice'

Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.15 kg Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) (5.9 EBC) Grain 68.60 %
1.00 kg Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann) (3.9 EBC) Grain 16.53 %
0.50 kg Crystal, Medium (BB) (170.0 EBC) Grain 8.26 %
0.35 kg Melanoidin (Weyermann) (59.1 EBC) Grain 5.79 %
0.05 kg Chocolate Malt (Joe White) (660.0 EBC) Grain 0.83 %
10.00 gm Cascade [6.30 %] (60 min) Hops 6.3 IBU
13.00 gm Chinook [12.40 %] (20 min) Hops 9.7 IBU
20.00 gm Cascade [6.30 %] (20 min) Hops 7.6 IBU
8.00 gm D Saaz [4.40 %] (20 min) Hops 2.1 IBU
25.00 gm Saaz [2.50 %] (20 min) Hops 3.8 IBU
10.00 gm Nelson Sauvin [12.40 %] (20 min) Hops 7.5 IBU
15.00 gm Chinook [12.40 %] (10 min) Hops 6.7 IBU
15.00 gm Cascade [6.00 %] (10 min) Hops 3.3 IBU
15.00 gm Styrian Goldings [4.70 %] (10 min) Hops 2.5 IBU
0.50 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
15.00 gm Cascade [6.30 %] (15 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
5.00 gm Chinook - home grown [12.40 %] (15 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
1 Pkgs Nottingham (Danstar #-) Yeast-Ale

25L, OG 1.053, 50IBU

All in a 30L fermenter without a blow off tube

Smelt amazing

Cheers
DrSmurto

That's a Hybrid IPA/AIPA for sure.Smelt(spelling) ,Smelled amazing, I bet it did!Give the blow off tube a sniff for a belt of green apples and hop aroma.What temp have you got it at?16/18c works for me with this strain.Thats a put in bottles and age for some months type of brew.Put one aside for the sabsosa comp this year as an American IPA, and see if you don't get a spot in the top 3.

[warra48]

That's one mother of a hoppy beer, but it looks to have enough malt to balance it out. Should be very tasty.
The Nottingham yeast will be good, as I understand it is a fairly highly attenuating yeast.
Please be sure to give us a progress report down the road.

[drsmurto]

Age this beer? Not likely! This is a hoppy drink now kinda beer in my books.

Altho since it is 25L i will have a few bottles, got an IIPA that should be almost drinking by SABSOSA as well as a few bottles of my latest dry irish stout.

Its at 18C (roughly - thats going from the thermo stuck on the fermenter sitting next to it) under a sleeping bag going beserk! Krausen stopped just short of the lid. Never seen an airlock go so fast before.

Only 2nd time using nottingham, 1st attempt is a D Saaz pale ale which is on tap at the moment, thats a hoppy beast too! D Saaz is one powerful hop, leaves cascade/chinook/amarillo in its wake.

[Timmsy]

D Saaz hay please tell me more.......

[drsmurto]

D Saaz

[KEG]

Brewer’s notes: If you want to say “hops” in your beer than this variety says it all. The pure weight of the oil character experienced during selection carries right through to the glass. A punchy addition to the new-world styles of Pale Ale and regional Pilseners. A cult hero that is established in the New Zealand craft beer culture.

sounds interesting

[Oliver]

Hi Doc,

I happened across this (very) old thread. I'd be intrigued to know how this beer turned out.

Cheers,

Oliver

[speedie]

at 6 grams per litre it would be chunky
beersmith 2 would brew it for you

[Tipsy]

beersmith 2 would brew it for you

It would definitely help, but you would still have to do a few things like designing your recipe, cracking grain, adding water and stirring the mash and sparging, boiling adding hops, chilling or no chilling, fermenting, bottling or keging and drinking it, but yeah I agree with you Speedie, it's a ripper of a program.

[speedie]

tippo you ommitted one major issue turn on computer
cheers speed

[bullfrog]

I think Speedie would only be happy if people used an abbacus for their calculations, instead of computers. Although, he does seem to be under the assumption that brewing calc programs actually make the beer for you. If anyone has come across a program that does this then let me know, I'm always looking for ways to get out of doing the heavy lifting!

[Sonny]