| Wort Volume Before Boil: | 12.00 l | Wort Volume After Boil: | 10.00 l |
| Volume Transferred: | 10.00 l | Water Added To Fermenter: | 0.00 l |
| Volume At Pitching: | 10.00 l | Volume Of Finished Beer: | 10.00 l |
| Expected Pre-Boil Gravity: | 1.061 SG | Expected OG: | 1.073 SG |
| Expected FG: | 1.017 SG | Apparent Attenuation: | 75.0 % |
| Expected ABV: | 7.5 % | Expected ABW: | 5.8 % |
| Expected IBU (using Tinseth): | 65.3 IBU | Expected Color (using Morey): | 21.2 SRM |
| BU:GU ratio: | 0.89 | Approx Color: | |
| Mash Efficiency: | 60.0 % | | |
| Boil Duration: | 90.0 mins | | |
| Fermentation Temperature: | 18 degC | | |
| Ingredient | Amount | % | MCU | When |
| UK Pale Ale Malt | 3.000 kg | 75.0 % | 7.5 | In Mash/Steeped |
| UK Medium Crystal | 0.800 kg | 20.0 % | 40.1 | In Mash/Steeped |
| German Caramel Pils | 0.200 kg | 5.0 % | 0.3 | In Mash/Steeped |
| Variety | Alpha | Amount | IBU | Form | When |
| UK Admiral | 12.9 % | 40 g | 65.3 | Loose Whole Hops | 20 Min From End |
| UK Admiral | 12.9 % | 20 g | 0.0 | Loose Whole Hops | At turn off |
| UK Admiral | 12.9 % | 20 g | 0.0 | Loose Whole Hops | Dry-Hopped |
At the start of the year I decided to explore British Hops a bit more and do a series of single hop beers but with british hops. I chose Admiral to start with a randomly plucked the Malt bill out the air and stuck in a fairly agressive hop schedule. Why I chose 20% crystal malt is way beyond me - doing this again I would drop the crystal completely and probably just do it with extract for ease.
Somehow a discussion was started about putting sweets in beer, the name Skittlebrau was made and I upped the amounts to make it a bigger batch, with the intention of splitting it two ways and then dry skittling one of the batches with a single packet of skittles.
No care was taken at the dry skittle stage and I just dropped the skittles in - one was fermented with S05 and the other with 1056. Both of the beers finished high (1.028 rather than 1.017) and so both were incredibly sweet and cloying. The skittle beer, however, had a huge medicinal aroma and tasted of a fairly rank blend of skittles. You could taste the rainbow but it was not good. I think the trick would be to try and get the shell flavour but ignore the bit in the middle of the skittle which was more problematic. Or just avoid skittles altogether. I think I will try this again at some point - perhaps with a Tripel and restrict myself to one colour of skittle. Maybe.
I actually want to drink this.
ReplyDeleteI'm really not sure you do. Ally's had some - she'll tell you how bad it was :-)
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