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Today I'm brewing up an all grain FIT's DIPA. It's a 2.7 gallon version of a 4.5 gallon batch Stephen and I did a while back. It's a serious grapefruit bomb, Falconer's Flight is the only hops involved. Love it!

Kegged my Nelson Sauvin Pale Ale a few days ago and my Levitation is still in the Ale Pail finishing off for a few more days of dry hopping. No plans to brew again anytime soon but......

- I have a few beers coming in trade
- Next week I am buying a bunch of Enjoy By
- I have a little hef left in one keg
- I have about 12 of my WCPA Hopstand Pale Ale still in bottles

I won't be hurting for anything to drink for a while.

This evening I'm brewing what I hope is my consummate Nelson Sauvin SMaSH!
I'm trying a few different tweaks to a recipe I've been brewing off and on for about 8 months!
It's Close!!

SelfFueled wrote:

brewin bull wrote: I have a Lime pale ale and Irish Red ale fermenting.

Need more input...

Recipe?
When, what and how much lime is the question.
Sounding good!

I used my LPA recipe and switched the lemons for limes.
Recipe Characteristics
Recipe Gravity 1.070 OG Estimated FG 1.018 FG
Recipe Bitterness 40 IBU Alcohol by Volume 6.8%
Recipe Color 7° SRM Alcohol by Weight 5.3%

Ingredients
Quantity Grain Type Use
3.50 lb Briess DME - Pilsen Light Extract Extract
0.25 lb CaraPils - [Body, Head] Grain Steeped
0.25 lb Crystal 10L - [Body, Caramel, Head, Sweet] Grain Steeped
0.50 lb Crystal 20L - [Body, Caramel, Head, Sweet] Grain Steeped
Quantity Hop Type Time
0.25 oz Citra - Musky tropical fruit and strong citrus make this a great flavor/aroma hop very fruity Pellet 20 minutes
0.25 oz Citra - Musky tropical fruit and strong citrus make this a great flavor/aroma hop very fruity Pellet 10 minutes
1.00 oz Citra - Musky tropical fruit and strong citrus make this a great flavor/aroma hop very fruity Pellet 0 minutes
0.25 oz Nugget - Bittering hop spicy-herbal Pellet 30 minutes
Quantity Misc Notes
1.00 unit Lemon Zest Yeast
1.00 unit Safale S-05 Dry Ale Yeast Yeast American: Temperature Range: 59°-75° F 11.5 GRAMS

Recipe Notes

add fresh lemon zest last 8 min of boil - zest from 3 small limes
add fresh lemon juice from 2 lemons after adding wort to the lbk - juice from 3 small limes.

Looks like the perfect drink to quench my thirst after cutting the grass or after the gym.

Looks good!

teutonic terror wrote:This evening I'm brewing what I hope is my consummate Nelson Sauvin SMaSH!
I'm trying a few different tweaks to a recipe I've been brewing off and on for about 8 months!
It's Close!!

Curious to see your recipe. Mine is "close" to a SMaSH but I used a little munich and some magnum for bittering. I've loved this beer every time I've made it nad it's the biggest hit with co-workers out of anything I've ever taken in to them.

Brewin' a Biere de Garde and a Saison right now...

The Biere de Garde should be ready to bottle next week.

I'll probably bottle the Saison tomorrow... It's been at the same gravity now for three days.

OG was 1.061 and the FG is solid at 1.004 ! The Belle Saison yeast tore it up!

91% apparent attenuation and 7.5% ABV.

BigPapaG wrote:Brewin' a Biere de Garde and a Saison right now...

The Biere de Garde should be ready to bottle next week.

I'll probably bottle the Saison tomorrow... It's been at the same gravity now for three days.

OG was 1.061 and the FG is solid at 1.004 ! The Belle Saison yeast tore it up!

91% apparent attenuation and 7.5% ABV.

Man that was some happy happy yeast.

right now I am building up a Super Saison, in memory of a fine young man who lets us way too early. Anyways Andy's Ale has gotten it's first sugar feeding & yeast addition. Hopefully this bad boy will finish out at 12% plus.

I finished a great Wheat from PapaG and headed to the final amounts of my Whatchamacallit. Gonna watch the Saints vs. Chiefs preseason which is really a waste of time (I hate preseason) and just chillax.

brewin bull wrote:
I used my LPA recipe and switched the lemons for limes.

Ooooh, sounds good.
I am keeping this and will try it very soon.

Thanks

Bottling my Seasonal Biere de Saison tomorrow. I have a Belgian Dubble ready to drink tomorrow so I may drink that while bottling the Saison

SelfFueled wrote:

brewin bull wrote:
I used my LPA recipe and switched the lemons for limes.

Ooooh, sounds good.
I am keeping this and will try it very soon.

Thanks

Just a warning this is not a nicely balanced brew, the lemon or lime flavor is there and with some 'power' this is exactly what I wanted but it doesn't fit with the 'style' standards. The abv is also probably higher than many want for this type of brew but to me it was perfect.

Kealia wrote:

teutonic terror wrote:This evening I'm brewing what I hope is my consummate Nelson Sauvin SMaSH!
I'm trying a few different tweaks to a recipe I've been brewing off and on for about 8 months!
It's Close!!

Curious to see your recipe. Mine is "close" to a SMaSH but I used a little munich and some magnum for bittering. I've loved this beer every time I've made it nad it's the biggest hit with co-workers out of anything I've ever taken in to them.

BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: Best Nelson Sauvin II
Brewer: JohnEC and The Boss
Asst Brewer:
Style: American IPA
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (30.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 7.91 gal
Post Boil Volume: 5.72 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.50 gal
Bottling Volume: 5.50 gal
Estimated OG: 1.055 SG
Estimated Color: 7.9 SRM
Estimated IBU: 65.2 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 72.0 %
Boil Time: 75 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
11 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 95.7 %
8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain 2 4.3 %
0.30 oz Nelson Sauvin [12.00 %] - First Wort 60. Hop 3 15.2 IBUs
0.75 oz Nelson Sauvin [12.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 4 20.9 IBUs
1.00 oz Nelson Sauvin [12.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 5 16.7 IBUs
1.00 oz Nelson Sauvin [12.00 %] - Boil 7.0 min Hop 6 12.4 IBUs
1.00 oz Nelson Sauvin [12.00 %] - Aroma Steep 30 Hop 7 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg Nottingham (Danstar #-) [23.66 ml] Yeast 8 -


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium Body, Batch Sparge
Total Grain Weight: 11 lbs 8.0 oz
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 14.38 qt of water at 167.4 F 152.0 F 75 min

Sparge: Batch sparge with 2 steps (1.74gal, 3.95gal) of 168.0 F water
Notes:
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Didn't turn a SMaSH ! LOL!! :opps: Had some grains to get rid of! Sorry!!
This is SWMBO's favorite too!
I'm doing my first hopstand , per say right now, got an ounce of Nelson soaking after the boil, before the fermenter right now.
Gonna hold it for thirty minutes then cool it to pitch temp and zip it up for tonight!