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Amber Waves of Grain

7/4/2012

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Happy 4th of July! 

What a great time to celebrate with friends and family over some homebrew! 

In our lineup, we have three "house" recipe beers on tap that don't change often, then rotate a 4th for that creative or seasonal beer.

It's fun and challenging to dial in these house beers and we are always tweaking them slightly. To help accommodate recipe changes, we decided to set up the hop timings so that different hops can be easily substituted, even though their alpha acid levels are not the same. The timings for our house IPA, Amber, and Pale Ale recipes all begin at 60 and work their way down in 10 minute increments. While these additions mean more work on brew day (compared to typical initial and knockout additions), they let us get closer to the bitterness ratio that we want to achieve for each style, and we can scale the amount of each addition accordingly.

Today I thought I'd share our house Amber ale recipe and so far, nugget hops have been my favorite. This recipe is for 10 gallons but it should scale nicely to 5 gallons.

Cheers!

Recipe: House Amber (Nugget)
Brewer: tknice
Asst Brewer: Pleepleus
Style: American Amber Ale
TYPE: All Grain

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 13.46 gal
Post Boil Volume: 11.96 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 11.00 gal   
Bottling Volume: 10.42 gal
Estimated OG: 1.057 SG
Estimated Color: 15.4 SRM
Estimated IBU: 32.8 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 73.2 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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18 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 75.0 %        
4 lbs Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 16.7 %        
1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain 4.2 %         
8.0 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 2.1 %         
8.0 oz Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 2.1 %         
0.25 oz Nugget [14.30 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 7.7 IBUs      
0.25 oz Nugget [14.30 %] - Boil 50.0 min Hop 7.2 IBUs      
0.25 oz Nugget [14.30 %] - Boil 40.0 min Hop 5.8 IBUs      
0.25 oz Nugget [14.30 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 3.9 IBUs      
0.50 oz Nugget [14.30 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 5.2 IBUs      
2.20 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining
0.50 oz Nugget [14.30 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 3.1 IBUs
2.0 pkg California Ale (White Labs #WLP001)

Mash Schedule: BIAB, Medium Body
Total Grain Weight: 24 lbs
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Saccharification Add 11.22 gal of water at 158.6 F 150.0 F 75 min        
Mash Out Heat to 168.0 F over 7 min 168.0 F 10 min        

Sparge: Remove grains, and prepare to boil wort

Notes:
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15 minute rest at flameout
4 Comments
Rich link
7/4/2012 05:42:13 am

Wow, neat idea with the 8oz chocolate malt. Ive never really seen that used to get color, usually i see carafa III or a touch of roasted barley.

Do any chocolate notes come through in the final beer????

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tknice link
7/4/2012 02:14:23 pm

Thanks Rich.. No.. it really just lends to color in small amounts. I can't say there are any chocolate notes, but there is definately some roasty stuff going on.

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nate
7/13/2012 09:40:39 am

What are you using for a brew kettle?

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tknice link
7/13/2012 09:55:26 am

I have the 15gal Blichmann and Scoundrel uses a Bayou Classic 20gal

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