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Mar 10

AG14 – Admiral on Deck

I brewed this last week but only just got round to sharing it…

The initial recipe was to be PDTNC’s Nelso Brucker but due to a few different ingredients I’ve given it the name of Admiral on Deck on account of the Nelson Sauvin hops.

Fermentable Colour Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 3650 grams 78.5%
Munich Malt 20 EBC 450 grams 9.7%
Torrefied Wheat 4 EBC 67 grams 1.4%
Roasted Rye Malt 800 EBC 365 grams 7.8%
Caramunch Malt 100 EBC 50 grams 1.1%
Carapils 5 EBC 67 grams 1.4%
Hop Variety Type Alpha Time grams Ratio
Hallertauer Hersbrucker Whole 2.9 % 60 mins 15 grams 10.7%
Nelson Sauvin Whole 13 % 60 mins 15 grams 10.7%
Nelson Sauvin Whole 13 % 15 mins 20 grams 14.3%
Nelson Sauvin Whole 13 % 0 mins 20 grams 14.3%
Hallertauer Hersbrucker Whole 2.9 % 15 mins 40 grams 28.6%
Hallertauer Hersbrucker Whole 2.9 % 0 mins 30 grams 21.4%

I did a 60 minutes mash with about 20 minutes of recirculation with the solar pump. 2nd batch sparge for 30 minutes with a 15 minutes recirculation, followed by a 60 minutes boil.

Managed to get a higher efficiency than I was expecting on the mash, I did use too much water on my sparge so the final output was 27L of wort, not 23. The gravity was on target of 1.045 so had it been 4L less I’d have a stronger beer…

The US-05 yeast has done a good job and it is now tucked up in the secondary fermenter with a current gravity of 1.012.

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