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ENGLISH IPA

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Nothing flash about the picture and nothing flash about the brew - except I brewed TWO YEARS AGO!

Bottled in a PET. Carbonation good. Been refrigerated for greater than 12 months.

The taste @ 23 August 2020 is brilliant.

Based on a Coopers Real Ale can, I hope some of my notes make sense to you.

Batch 55: English IPA-2 (Coop Real Ale)  FV2

23 Litre Brew. 1.7kg Real Ale, 1.5kg LLME, 750g LWME, 300g Light Crystal, 200g Carapils, 20gms/20gms Challenger Hop @ 20/7m, 40g Hallertau Mittelfruh chuxed Dry Hop (day5-8), Nottingham Yeast rehydrated plus Kit Yeast pitched dry = 18g.

OG: (predicted 1057) Sat 21/7 1055

FG: (predicted 1014  6.0%) Thu 26/7 1015 CC, DH,   Mon 30/7 1013 6%, Remove DH, CC

IBU/EBC: 43/20

Bott: 7/8/18

Comments: Wort start 19c. Rehydrated Nottingham pitched in at 24c. Kit yeast pitched dry on top. Ferment temp set to 18c.

25/7/18: Dry hop 40g Hallertau Mittelfruh (chux)

30/7/18: Remove and squeeze dry hop. CC

7/8/18: Bottle. Taste ok. Hops not powerful aroma. Subtle

22/11/18: After 14 weeks this beer is getting better. Nice melded grain/hop profiles. Licorice arriving.

8/8/19: licorice gone. Nice melded tastes

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12 hours ago, Otto Von Blotto said:

A pale ale I kegged about 3 weeks ago. Can't even remember the recipe now, but it tastes pretty good. Got lazy and didn't dry hop it or use polyclar, but did put isinglass in it a few days before it was kegged. 

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Beautiful Otto.

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Yeah, in future I'll probably not skip dry hopping these beers. Lacked aroma. 

Keg is now empty as well so there's nothing on tap, but I have a pilsner in the lagering phase in a fermenter, and brewed a red ale yesterday so I'll make up a yeast starter tomorrow and get that one fermenting on the weekend or early next week.

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My latest west coast pale ale. Maybe my 3rd or 4th go at developing some kind of pale in happy with. This ones almost there. She’s a dank little thing Which is what I wanted. although next time I might ditch the centennial and just go Columbus, and cascade in the kettle and simcoe as a dry.

 

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26 minutes ago, Journeyman said:

Which hops have you used?

That looks a LOT more orange than my XPA's. I just use the simcoe and lemondrop although my last one I swapped simcoe for mosaic to try it out.

Plus a 25g dry hop of chinook

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On 8/23/2020 at 12:53 PM, PaddyBrew2 said:

My Hefeweizen.  Doesn't have the esters I was looking for despite fermenting at 21. Gimme gimme gimme dat banana 

Maybe no banana bending** Paddy Mate but fer sher it is a very nice looking beer mate!  Need to do one in the keg meself soon.... nice job Cob!

**Bit of a quiet piss-take there as Queenslanders years ago used to be called "Banana Benders"...     ; )

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