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Soulless Hop has ‘Pale Ale’ in its identify, however appears extra like an IPA to me. The recipe is impressed by Three Floyds Zombie Mud, which tops finest beer lists often. It’s brewed with 100% Citra hops, and makes use of quite a lot of them (5 oz within the boil and three oz dry hop). I’ve been fortunate sufficient to have had it a pair occasions earlier than and cherished it, which drew me to do that recipe package.
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I ordered un-milled grains, to crush them with my mill. The bottom grains have been unmilled, however the specialty grains have been already milled. They’d a very good crush on them, however nonetheless my choice is to be in command of crushing my very own grains simply in case the store doesn’t pay shut consideration. The malts have been packaged in pre-measured luggage, with malts from Briess and Weyermann. It used 4 totally different malts to deliver complexity to the malt invoice, in distinction to its singular hop selection. The hops got here in light-proof, thick luggage, the place the hops have been nitrogen flushed earlier than bagging. There was additionally a pill of Kick Carrageenan, a clarifier used within the boil kettle. The recipe kits from MoreBeer don’t include a particular yeast, as an alternative they provide you a listing of yeast suggestions from the totally different yeast distributors they carry (White Labs, Wyeast, Gigayeast, Imperial, Cellar Science Dry, and Fermentis Dry). I’ve by no means used dry yeast, as I had a preconceived notion that it wasn’t pretty much as good as liquid yeast. So I made a decision I’d give it a strive based mostly on MoreBeer’s suggestion, and obtained the Cellar Science Dry Cali yeast. It got here in a 12g bundle, and the label stated it was good for as much as 5-6 gallons of wort, which accommodates 120 billion yeast cells. The instructions on the bundle stated for wort gravity above 1.060, the yeast needs to be rehydrated earlier than pitching. And when brewing in the summertime months, a key good thing about dry yeast is that it handles heat delivery significantly better than liquid yeast. Along with the components, there was a recipe card with primary brewing instructions, a cut-out form to go along with the MoreBeer customized faucet deal with, and a sheet of primary brewing course of ideas.
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Brew Day
The recipe instructions have been very basic. For instance, they gave mash temperature, however didn’t specify a mash time. For seasoned brewers, this can be a welcome flexibility, since all of us have our specific opinions on sure course of particulars. For newbies, this would possibly imply a little bit outdoors analysis is required, which may very well be a very good studying expertise anyway. The recipe known as for a 150F mash. One way or the other I fat-fingered that into my brewing software program and ended up with a mash at 156F for 45 minutes, adopted by a mashout at 168F. I adjusted water with brewing salts to match a hoppy water profile and lactic acid to regulate the pH. I ended up with a measured pH of 5.4 within the mash, barely decrease than the 5.5 I used to be focusing on. I then did a 60 minute boil, the place I added the hops as per the schedule. I added the Kick Carrageenan pill with 5 minutes left within the boil. It appeared to make clumps of sizzling break-like materials within the kettle that I don’t usually see with my Irish Moss. I used to be a little bit low on the Authentic Gravity with a 1.059 versus a goal of 1.061.
Fermentation
With the OG on the border of the place they really helpful rehydration earlier than pitching, I needed issues to achieve success. I added the yeast to a half cup of room temperature distilled water. I later learn that distilled water was nearly worse than not rehydrating, and it may result in delayed begin of fermentation. Oops. I adopted the instructions of letting it sit for 20 minutes earlier than pitching it into the wort. It took about 11 hours earlier than indicators of fermentation beginning (monitored through Tilt Bluetooth hydrometer), which is a bit slower than I’d’ve anticipated. I fermented at 70F for about 2 days, then ramped it as much as 75F all through the subsequent day. After a complete of 4 days fermenting, the gravity indicated fermentation was completed so I added the dry hops. After sitting on the dry hops for 3 days, I transferred to an oxygen-purged keg to chilly crash. After 3 days chilly, I transferred into one other oxygen-purged keg for serving. It completed fermentation with an ABV of 5.9% and FG of 1.014, with a yeast attenuation of simply over 75%.
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Conclusions
I loved this beer. It had a vibrant and fragrant hop aroma. There was a clear hop chunk, adopted by reasonable malt sweetness, and ending with lingering hop bitterness. Total, it had pretty dry mouthfeel. I did nevertheless really feel that the hop aftertaste had a bit an excessive amount of lingering bitterness. I felt there was a slight “rawness” to the bitterness within the aftertaste. I don’t know if that may very well be attributed to the yeast alternative or not, but when I brewed it once more, I’d in all probability go for the WLP-001 California Ale yeast. Sharing this beer with my neighborhood homebrew community, I obtained rave critiques for the quenching bitterness of it. You may’t go incorrect with Citra hops in my view.
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