Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Audacity of Hops Clone Attempt

The brewing club of which I am a minor part is holding a clone competition of the "Belgian Double IPA" Audacity of Hops from Cambridge Brewing Company. The page for the beer has some recipe info and stats for the beer although I heard some contradictory information from a member of the club who spoke with one of the brewers. I've tried to guess at the recipe as best I could.

Audacity Clone Attempt

3.25 gallon batch

6# Belgian Pilsner Malt
2# German Vienna Malt
12oz Table Sugar
12oz Wheat Malt
2oz Crystal 40L

1oz Nugget, 13.1% AA, 90 min
.5oz Cascade, 6%, 10 min
.5oz Centennial, 10.5%, 10min
.5oz Hallertau, 4.5%, 5min
.5oz Tettnang, 4%, 5min
.5oz Hallertau, 4.5%, 1min
.5oz Tettnang, 4%, 1min

.25oz Chinook, 13%, Hopstand
.25oz Amarillo, 9.5%, Hopstand
.25oz Simcoe, 13%, Hopstand
.25oz Tettnang, 4%, Hopstand

.75oz Chinook, 13%, Dry
.75oz Amarillo, 9.5%, Dry
.75oz Simcoe, 13%, Dry
.75oz Tettnang, 4%,Dry

WLP550 - Belgian Ale Yeast

Expected FG / OG / IBUs / ABV: 1.079, 1.015, 88, 8.3%

Brewed 8/3/14
Made a starter on 8/2/14.

Hit my mash temp well, but oversparged. I collected about 4.75 gallons and boiled for 25 minutes before adding the hops.

My OG was probably a bit off because of this, but at the end of the boil I was about at the right batch size.

Hopstand procedure was 5 mins at 210F, then 30 minutes at 180F - 165F. I recirculated the hot wort the whole time using the march pump.

Cooled to approximately 110F, then placed the kettle in the basement in a tub of water. Let cool for 4 hours, and pitched at 70F.

By 8/4/14 at 6pm, the fermentation was going nicely.

Added dry hops on 8/11/14, after most of the yeast had started to drop out. The smell of the beer was good and Belgian.

Bottled on 8/18/14, going for 2.2 volumes of CO2. I got 27 bottles. The trub and hop gunk reduce your volume substantially on a beer like this. 

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