Brew 20 - Summer Sunshine (Bru-1 IPA)

Brew 20 - Summer Sunshine (Bru-1 IPA)

Brew Day: 12/04/2021

Bottle Day: 26/04/2021

Another brew and another new hop variety. I was having a bit of a scout on Get 'Er Brewed's website and there seem to be a lot of new hop varieties available. I wonder if this is due to the fact that industrial breweries are making less beer, leaving more for us mini brewers to access? 

I looked at Medusa, Talus, Sultana but settled on a variety called Bru-1. This variety imparts a pineapple flavour - something a little different so settling on a basic pale ale recipe to find out what this hop can do. A slight change to my usual malt bill, I'm using Vienna Malt alongside old faithfuls Maris Otter and CaraMalt. 

I'm also going with a liquid yeast again - Wyeast 1056 American Ale. 

Brew day arrives and mash goes on as follows: 

  • 23 litres strike water at 73 deg C 
  • Preheated mash tun with boiling water 
  • 1/2 Campden Tab + 2tsp Burton Crystals
  • 60min mash @ 64-66 deg C
  • Recirculated the wort over the grain bag a few times (aiming to wash through as much sugar as possible).
I collected off the wort and then sparged as follows: 
  • 8 litres sparge water at 77 deg C (+1/2 Campden and 1tsp Burton Crystal
  • Infuse for 30mins
  • Collect off and put to boil alongside main batch. 
I added the sparged wort at intervals and then mixed wort between the 2 stock pots to distribute the hop oils and alpha acids. The main aim being to add the whole lot into the FV at the end - to get a much out of this as possible. 

Hop bill added to boil as follows: 
  • 20g Bru-1 @ 60mins (37 IBU) 
  • 10g Bru-1 @ 25mins (13 IBU) 
  • 1/2 Protofloc Tab @ 15mins
  • 30g Bru-1 @ 0 mins
20 litres pours into the FV (well aerated) - this is a very decent sized batch using this set up. Cooled in the mash tun as an ice bath (this didn't work too well - need to rethink). Added liquid yeast once down to around 20 deg C. Now to wait and see. 





Dry hop - 40g of Bru-1 added on day 4 and Gravity at this point is down to 1.014. Brew is smelling and tasting really interesting at this point. 


On the whole this was a good solid brew. Nothing spectacular but I would brew it again. Feedback was good and a few commented on the bitterness - not something I aimed for but in the end this was a good characteristic of the beer. It reminded me of St Austell's Proper Job. A good bitterness and nice on a hot day. I ended up giving the last few bottles away as the beer was highly appreciated by the recipient. Brew rating: A solid 3.5/5. 


Notes:
Malts: Maris Otter Pale, Vienna, Caramalt.
Hops: Bru-1
OG: 1.050 
Amount into FV: 20Litres
Grav on 16/04/21: 1.014
FG = 1.010
ABV = 5.2% 
Bottles = 36 Bottles (32 x 500ml + 4 x 330ml) (16.9 litres)

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