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Wow.. brewed my Janet's Brown, and pitched onto a yeast cake from a basic pale ale. Thing was fermenting off within 4 hours, and I had to throw a blow-off tube on.

I know this isn't the ideal practice, but I thought I'd try it once, and the opportunity presented itself.

Next brew is a Cascadian Dark Ale.

Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Boil Size: 6.92 gal
Boil Time: 60 min

Ingredients
Grains
15.50 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 88.57 %
1.00 lb Carafa III (525.0 SRM) Grain 5.71 % (last 10 mins of mash)
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 5.71 %
Hops

3.00 oz Magnum [14.00 %] (60 min) Hops 110.4 IBU
2.00 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (1 min) Hops 1.9 IBU
0.50 oz Centennial (8-Paws) [8.80 %] (0 min) Hops
2.00 oz Centennial (8-Paws) [8.80 %] (Dry Hop 5 days) Hops
2.00 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (Dry Hop 5 days) Hops
Other
1 Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056) [Starter 1500 ml]

elproducto wrote:Wow.. brewed my Janet's Brown, and pitched onto a yeast cake from a basic pale ale. Thing was fermenting off within 4 hours, and I had to throw a blow-off tube on.

I know this isn't the ideal practice, but I thought I'd try it once, and the opportunity presented itself.

Next brew is a Cascadian Dark Ale.

Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Boil Size: 6.92 gal
Boil Time: 60 min

Ingredients
Grains
15.50 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 88.57 %
1.00 lb Carafa III (525.0 SRM) Grain 5.71 % (last 10 mins of mash)
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 5.71 %
Hops

3.00 oz Magnum [14.00 %] (60 min) Hops 110.4 IBU
2.00 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (1 min) Hops 1.9 IBU
0.50 oz Centennial (8-Paws) [8.80 %] (0 min) Hops
2.00 oz Centennial (8-Paws) [8.80 %] (Dry Hop 5 days) Hops
2.00 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (Dry Hop 5 days) Hops
Other
1 Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056) [Starter 1500 ml]

i love this recipe! looks like a winner to me

Yeah, I've been drinking the shit out of Flying Monkeys Cascadian.. this style has REALLY grown on me. Since starting homebrewing, I've been brewing/drinking pretty much nothing buy IPA's. this looks awesome.

elproducto wrote: 1.00 lb Carafa III (525.0 SRM) Grain 5.71 % (last 10 mins of mash)

Dehusked? Even so, that seems like a lot! (Though I suppose you don't get much extraction in only 10 minutes?)

Brewed up a Sorachi Ace/Citra IPA called sensei says, "Citra ass down!"
OG 1.070, light in colour and smells amazing.

73% 9 lb8 American Two-row Pale info 37 2
8% 1 0 Briess Pilsen Light DME info 44 2
8% 1 0 Briess DME Golden Light info 43 5
8% 1 0 Sugar, Table (Sucrose) info 46 1
4% 0 8 Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L info

first wort 90+ mins 0.75 Nugget info pellet 13.0
boil 15 mins 1.0 Sorachi Ace info pellet 13.7
boil 15 mins 1.0 Citra info pellet 11.0
post-boil 1 min 1.5 Citra info leaf 10.7
post-boil 1 min 1.5 Sorachi Ace info pellet 10.7
dry hop 10 days 1.5 Citra info leaf 11.0
dry hop 10 days 1.5 Sorachi Ace info pellet 13.7

Bonesey wrote:Brewed up a Sorachi Ace/Citra IPA called sensei says, "Citra ass down!"
OG 1.070, light in colour and smells amazing.

73% 9 lb8 American Two-row Pale info 37 2
8% 1 0 Briess Pilsen Light DME info 44 2
8% 1 0 Briess DME Golden Light info 43 5
8% 1 0 Sugar, Table (Sucrose) info 46 1
4% 0 8 Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L info

first wort 90+ mins 0.75 Nugget info pellet 13.0
boil 15 mins 1.0 Sorachi Ace info pellet 13.7
boil 15 mins 1.0 Citra info pellet 11.0
post-boil 1 min 1.5 Citra info leaf 10.7
post-boil 1 min 1.5 Sorachi Ace info pellet 10.7
dry hop 10 days 1.5 Citra info leaf 11.0
dry hop 10 days 1.5 Sorachi Ace info pellet 13.7

Looks tasty. I'm about to order a pound of Citra hops, can't wait to try them. The Sorachi ace sound interesting, but I'd like to try them before ordering a whole pound.

elproducto wrote:

Bonesey wrote:Brewed up a Sorachi Ace/Citra IPA called sensei says, "Citra ass down!"
OG 1.070, light in colour and smells amazing.

73% 9 lb8 American Two-row Pale info 37 2
8% 1 0 Briess Pilsen Light DME info 44 2
8% 1 0 Briess DME Golden Light info 43 5
8% 1 0 Sugar, Table (Sucrose) info 46 1
4% 0 8 Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L info

first wort 90+ mins 0.75 Nugget info pellet 13.0
boil 15 mins 1.0 Sorachi Ace info pellet 13.7
boil 15 mins 1.0 Citra info pellet 11.0
post-boil 1 min 1.5 Citra info leaf 10.7
post-boil 1 min 1.5 Sorachi Ace info pellet 10.7
dry hop 10 days 1.5 Citra info leaf 11.0
dry hop 10 days 1.5 Sorachi Ace info pellet 13.7

Looks tasty. I'm about to order a pound of Citra hops, can't wait to try them. The Sorachi ace sound interesting, but I'd like to try them before ordering a whole pound.

Sorachi is very lemony and herbal. Put a bit at FO and dry hop in an IIPA with other US hops and it really stood out, especially on the tongue. Citra is a funny hop, runs the gamut from Lychee to catty.

Bonesey wrote:Brewed up a Sorachi Ace/Citra IPA called sensei says, "Citra ass down!"
OG 1.070, light in colour and smells amazing.

73% 9 lb8 American Two-row Pale info 37 2
8% 1 0 Briess Pilsen Light DME info 44 2
8% 1 0 Briess DME Golden Light info 43 5
8% 1 0 Sugar, Table (Sucrose) info 46 1
4% 0 8 Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L info

first wort 90+ mins 0.75 Nugget info pellet 13.0
boil 15 mins 1.0 Sorachi Ace info pellet 13.7
boil 15 mins 1.0 Citra info pellet 11.0
post-boil 1 min 1.5 Citra info leaf 10.7
post-boil 1 min 1.5 Sorachi Ace info pellet 10.7
dry hop 10 days 1.5 Citra info leaf 11.0
dry hop 10 days 1.5 Sorachi Ace info pellet 13.7

I just got a pound of Citra Leaf. Where did you get the Sorachi Ace, mailorder?

Got the Sorachi from Bob at beer and wine filter. I'd recommend it, as it's pretty versatile; IPAs/IIPAs, saisons, US wheats. I've heard people complain that it's like lemon pledge if overused. I don't think I'd ever do a single hop IPA with it, but I think it works well with C hops in an IPA.

Bonesey wrote:Got the Sorachi from Bob at beer and wine filter. I'd recommend it, as it's pretty versatile; IPAs/IIPAs, saisons, US wheats. I've heard people complain that it's like lemon pledge if overused. I don't think I'd ever do a single hop IPA with it, but I think it works well with C hops in an IPA.

I have Bob's latest stock list, and he does have it in stock.

elproducto wrote:I have Bob's latest stock list, and he does have it in stock.

I just got his price list the other day (that's where I got the Citra) his prices are great. I'll have to grab some Sorachi.

phirleh wrote:

elproducto wrote:I have Bob's latest stock list, and he does have it in stock.

I just got his price list the other day (that's where I got the Citra) his prices are great. I'll have to grab some Sorachi.

His prices are awesome.. especially considering other LHBS in Ontario are chargin 25-30$ for a pound of bulk hops.

Shhhhh... don't tell

One of the Hamilton area homebrewers found a pound of unlabelled mystery hop pellets in his freezer, so we split it amongst a few guys and are doing a SMASH brew (single malt and single hops) with our choice of yeast. I brewed early yesterday morning (5am) and mine is 10lb of Maris Otter fermenting with WL007 (just started bubbling this morning).

cannondale wrote:Russian Imperial Stout, 5.25 gallons

Grain Bill: Maris Otter, Amber, Roasted Barley & Black Patent
Hops: Columbus (bittering)
Yeast: Safale S-04

Just racked this to secondary. From an OG of 1.104 it's down to 1.024 and tastes incredible.

Next weekend will be an abbey single/petit saison 11 gallon split batch.

Fermentables: Pils malt, Abbey malt & Cane sugar
Hops: Hallertau (bittering) & Saaz (flavour & aroma)
Yeast: Wyeast 1762 (1st half) & Wyeast 3711 (2nd half)

cannondale wrote:

cannondale wrote:Russian Imperial Stout, 5.25 gallons

Grain Bill: Maris Otter, Amber, Roasted Barley & Black Patent
Hops: Columbus (bittering)
Yeast: Safale S-04

Just racked this to secondary. From an OG of 1.104 it's down to 1.024 and tastes incredible.

That is pretty impressive for S-04, sounds awesome!