AG#27 - Spectroscope (Sorachi brown)

[sunny_jimbob]

Lazy Sunday at home, hate the sun, ideal opportunity to stay indoors and brew! I've had some Sorachi Ace burning a hole in my hop stock for a while, but wanted to do something unusual with them. I was in Norway earlier in the week, and was drinking Brooklyn Brown Ale, so I thought I'd have a punt at a rough clone (purely in terms of a robust-ish brown) using just Sorachi.

The beer is named for the spectroscope, which featured heavily in the last OU module I did, and according to Wikipedia is "is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically used in spectroscopic analysis to identify materials."

Photos will follow in due course.

Spectroscope
American Brown Ale

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 17.0
Total Grain (kg): 4.308
Total Hops (g): 46.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.055 (°P): 13.6
Final Gravity (FG): 1.014 (°P): 3.6
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 5.40 %
Colour (SRM): 19.0 (EBC): 37.4
Bitterness (IBU): 35.4 (Average - No Chill Adjusted)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 70
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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3.447 kg Pale Ale Malt (80%)
0.388 kg Brown Malt (9%)
0.172 kg Flaked Oats (4%)
0.172 kg Wheat Malt (4%)
0.129 kg Chocolate (3%)

Hop Bill
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9.0 g Sorachi Pellet (11.8% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (0.5 g/L)
10.0 g Sorachi Pellet (11.8% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (0.6 g/L)
10.0 g Sorachi Pellet (11.8% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil) (0.6 g/L)
17.0 g Sorachi Pellet (11.8% Alpha) @ 5 Days (Dry Hop) (1 g/L)

Single step Infusion at 66°C for 90 Minutes.
Fermented at 20°C with Mangrove Jack's Y07 British Ale

Recipe Generated with BrewMate

[ArmChair]

I'm looking forward to trying this, please save me a bottle

Hope everything's goes well for you

[sunny_jimbob]

I'm looking forward to trying this, please save me a bottle

Why am I not surprised that the first reply is from you, and says this, Mr Chair?

Just downed the hops to 8/8/9 grams, because I'd not edited the AA%. And holy cow, they smell fantastic!

[ArmChair]

I'm looking forward to trying this, please save me a bottle

Why am I not surprised that the first reply is from you, and says this, Mr Chair?

Just downed the hops to 8/8/9 grams, because I'd not edited the AA%. And holy cow, they smell fantastic!

That's because you know me so well
I also know you would put me a bottle aside for the Morley Homebrew bottle swap

I've never smelt the hops in the boil, I'm hoping Pete will sells 100g when I come to the next meeting.