5th All Grain (22) – Jamil’s American Pale Ale (APA)

 

14 March 2009 - I bought the fantastic book, Brewing Classic Styles recently by Jamil Zainasheff  & John Palmer. This brew I am trying out Jamil’s award winning APA. It has some interesting ingredients and lots of different hops so should be a bit of fun. Got the grain from Pat at Absolute Homebrew (after an hour of beer chat and a lovely wheat beer ) Recipe as follows:

• 4 kg Ale Malt
• 250g Amber Malt
• 250g Munich Malt
• 250g Wheat Malt
• 25g Horizon @ 60 min
• 10g Centennial @ 10 min
• 10g Cascade @10 min
• 15g Centennial @ 0 min
• 15g Cascade @ 0 min
• 1/2 Whirfloc tablet @ 10 min
• US05 (cheaper one from Craftbrewer anyway)

Mashed with 18L of water at 74deg which came out at spot on 67deg. Mashed for an hour with no drop in temp.

Drained and sparged with extra 18L of water at 78deg. Ended up with a little under 28L in Kettle after drain stopped.

Boiled for around 10 min in kettle till hot break then for another hour with hop additions as above. 

Transferred to 20L cube after flameout for no-chill. Should stay here for about a week while I wait for the IPA to ferment out…

26 March 2009 - Bugger, realised I didn’t have any yeast a few days ago and took until today to get to Daves Home Brew to pick up a US05. Pitched after hydration and was off like a cracker by the morning.

OG: 1.052
FG: 1.012
alc: 5.2% 

11 April 2009 - Finally had a chance to bottle today after 16 days in the fermenter. Well and truly done & cleared. Interestingly I took a swig from the fermenter and couldn’t taste much at all, certainly no hops anyway. Not sure if this had anything to do with the IPA’s I had been drinking all afternoon

21 April 2009 – Very well balanced beer, not so full of hops as previous APA’s. In fact maybe some dry hop in the fermentor (slightly) would be nice to add a little more aroma.

Has a great biscuity malt backbone, very similar to Murray’s Nirvana which I think is coming from the amber malt…very nice