Glass
2nd November 2014, 05:09 PM
Galaxy hops are an Australian strain of hops. Or so I'm told. Haven't tried them. In keeping with throwing them into a simple base beer so we can see what they are like. Expecting aroma but probably not much flavour
Coopers Canadian Blonde is the base extract here.
The recipe:
1 x 1.7kg Coopers Canadian Blonde
1.25 kg Brew Booster - from the preferred LHBS
2 x 7gms Coopers yeast
30gms Galaxy pellet hops dry hopped
Changes:
Galaxy hops. Double yeast. Dry pitched yeast
OG 1.060
Volume: 20L
Fermenter: Regular/Standard #1
Brew temp: 26C - ambient
Pitch temp: 23C
Current temp: 23C
After saying in #20 I was always going to rehydrate the yeast before pitching I couldn't get it together for this brew. Waiting for some time to bring the temp down to pitching. I set aside some boiled water but it was going to take more than a couple hours by which time the water was cold. Boiled up some more a couple times but dozed off both times waiting for it to cool. Then it was cold. At 2 AM I figured I wasn't going to have another try and just pitched the yeast dry.
This one has a very high OG. I think I either need to reduce the sugars/fermentables from 1.25kgs into 20L or go back to regular 23L or somewhere in between.
Coopers Canadian Blonde is the base extract here.
The recipe:
1 x 1.7kg Coopers Canadian Blonde
1.25 kg Brew Booster - from the preferred LHBS
2 x 7gms Coopers yeast
30gms Galaxy pellet hops dry hopped
Changes:
Galaxy hops. Double yeast. Dry pitched yeast
OG 1.060
Volume: 20L
Fermenter: Regular/Standard #1
Brew temp: 26C - ambient
Pitch temp: 23C
Current temp: 23C
After saying in #20 I was always going to rehydrate the yeast before pitching I couldn't get it together for this brew. Waiting for some time to bring the temp down to pitching. I set aside some boiled water but it was going to take more than a couple hours by which time the water was cold. Boiled up some more a couple times but dozed off both times waiting for it to cool. Then it was cold. At 2 AM I figured I wasn't going to have another try and just pitched the yeast dry.
This one has a very high OG. I think I either need to reduce the sugars/fermentables from 1.25kgs into 20L or go back to regular 23L or somewhere in between.