LateHop#2

A nice balanced flavor of toasty/caramelly malt to the orange and grapefruit citrusy hops

Brewer:	ChriSto		Email:	-
Beer:	LateHop#2		Style:	American Pale Ale
Type:	All grain		Size:	5.4 gallons
Color:	12 HCU (~8 SRM)		Bitterness:	40 IBU
OG:	1.058		FG:	1.010
Alcohol:	6.1% v/v (4.8% w/w)
Water:	I have Munich-type water
Grain:	8.5 lb. American 2-row .5 lb. American crystal 10L .5 lb. American crystal 40L .5 lb. American victory 1 lb. American Munich
Mash:	78% efficiency
	150F for 3 hrs (at chorus)
Boil:	60 minutes	SG 1.049	6.4 gallons
	SuperMoss at 10 min.
Hops:	.5 oz. Amarillo (9.4% AA, 25 min.) .5 oz. Cascade (6% AA, 25 min.) .5 oz. Amarillo (9.4% AA, 15 min.) .5 oz. Cascade (6% AA, 15 min.) .5 oz. Amarillo (9.4% AA, 10 min.) .5 oz. Cascade (6% AA, 10 min.) .5 oz. Amarillo (9.4% AA, 1 min.) .5 oz. Cascade (6% AA, 1 min.) 1 oz. Amarillo (aroma)
Yeast:	S-05 yeast cake from cream ale secondary.
Log:	Bubbling at 12 hrs. Blowoff req'd at 24 hrs. Primary 17 days @ 66F. Secondary for 14 days. Racked on dry hops (0.5 oz. each Cascade & Amarillo) for 10 more days.
Carbonation:	2.5 volumes	Keg: 15.4 psi @ 46°F
Tasting:	Initially this was just planned as a late hop version of my standard Rye Pale Ale (with rye removed and replaced with some Victory & 40L crystal). The finished product ended up with a wonderful bready, toasty and caramelly malt start with a huge amount of orange & grapefruit hop flavor and aroma. Initially, bitterness was only balanced with the malt. After a month in the keg the hops had started making their presence known with a long lingering bitter finish. I've always used Tinseth for IBU calcs and it does a very good job with beers with fairly equal additions of bittering, flavor and aroma hops. For my bittering addition only beers, I'd noticed that the actual bitterness was typically a little higher than expected (aka Tinseth predicts a little low). With this beer, I've now seen that Tinseth IBU calcs are a little high in late additions. The 40 IBUs predicted is definitely not the case. If using Rager for the late additions you only get around 29 IBUs, which seems about right for this late addition beer. So, just a note to my file (and anyone else's) to adjust accordingly for future batches. As stated, over time the beer became a little more bitter-side balanced. Used it as a beer for a BJCP exam I administered and it was scored 41 by the proctors and as high as 47 by examinees (usually 40 is about as high as you go for the exam), so I felt pretty good about it. The only thing I can see changing, and it starts to be nitpicking, is to add some resiny hops to the mix. So next time I will blend in some Chinook or Columbus with the Cascade and Amarillo to add more hop complexity.

Recipe posted 08/23/10.