CS-11: Après XPA
Hey, made this wanting a spritzy sort of quencher for after skiing that goes down easy and makes it hard to get up out of the seat. It's kinda an extra XPA. Or a hoppy pilsner fermented with ale yeast?
Whatever you call it, I may have been slightly too optimistic regarding the prospects for snowfall this year...
This was a big batch, brewed with Raffe who took home a fermenter, and one fermenter is being aged with Brett Trois, but for the swap you have the dry hopped S05 version.
I managed to forget the koppafloc (what a rookie mistake) so it hasn't brightened up quite as well as I wanted, but it was crash cooled and fined in the keg, so it's mostly ok.
Bottled from the keg, so drink fresh - it's peaking now I reckon.
Batch Size (fermenter): 77.00 l
Boil Time: 90 min
Date: 6/8/2014
Brewhouse Efficiency: 85.00 %
Measured Original Gravity: 1.056 SG
Bitterness: 39.1 IBUs
Est Color: 10.7 EBC
| Amt | Name | Type | # | %/IBU |
| 9.00 kg | Gladfield Pilsner Malt (3.8 EBC) | Grain | 1 | 55.7 % |
| 5.30 kg | Pale Malt, Golden Promise (Thomas Fawcett) (5.9 EBC) | Grain | 2 | 32.8 % |
| 0.70 kg | Gladfield Light Crystal Malt (54.0 EBC) | Grain | 3 | 4.3 % |
| 0.40 kg | Munich II (Weyermann) (16.7 EBC) | Grain | 4 | 2.5 % |
| 0.30 kg | Caramalt (Thomas Fawcett) (29.6 EBC) | Grain | 5 | 1.9 % |
| 0.30 kg | Gladfield Wheat Malt (4.2 EBC) | Grain | 6 | 1.9 % |
| 0.15 kg | Acidulated (Weyermann) (3.5 EBC) | Grain | 7 | 0.9 % |
| 40.00 g | Summit [17.00 %] - Boil 65.0 min | Hop | 8 | 22.3 IBUs |
| 10.00 g | Cascade [6.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min | Hop | 9 | 2.1 IBUs |
| 50.00 g | Cascade [6.50 %] - Boil 30.0 min | Hop | 10 | 8.1 IBUs |
| 20.00 g | Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] - Boil 10.0 min | Hop | 11 | 2.0 IBUs |
| 20.00 g | Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min | Hop | 12 | 3.0 IBUs |
| 20.00 g | cascade [7.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min | Hop | 13 | 1.6 IBUs |
| 40.00 g | Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] - Aroma Steep 25.0 min | Hop | 14 | 0.0 IBUs |
| 40.00 g | Simcoe [13.00 %] - Aroma Steep 25.0 min | Hop | 15 | 0.0 IBUs |
| 20.00 g | Citra [12.00 %] - Aroma Steep 25.0 min | Hop | 16 | 0.0 IBUs |
It was a split ferment, so what you have was around 38l dry hopped with 40g Simcoe, 40g amarillo, 20g Citra.
Cheers fellas. Enjoy.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Jack on
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oh- A-XPA is written on the neck.
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Permalink Reply by G S on
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Beautiful colour, clear and bright, nice head, although dissipates after a minute or two.
Aroma not as much as I'd expected (hoped) for a kegged beer, but good.
I thought well balanced, hops not dominating for me, although I may be suffering a little from lupolin threshold shift these days. Some where between the hoppy pilsner and the xpa you mentioned. More than makes up for a lack of snow....
Very nice, thank you, and a cracking start to the case. -
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Permalink Reply by Duncan Emo on
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Hi Richard,
First beer of the case swap for me and a great start.
Pours - a light orange/burnt golden colour. Good head that dissapated fairly quickly. Aroma - great US hop fruity, floral smells - nothing overly overpowering
Flavour - Bitterness just as expected and a slight alcohol warmth at the end of the mouthful
Mouthfeel - Quite thin but guess thats what the style is based on - I loved the resiny feel all those hops give out!
Great beer and I'd love to brew one like that!
Cheers!
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Permalink Reply by Crusader-Rob on
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Happy Homebrew wednesday everyone! finally received my beer in the mail after NZ Post lost it all...
Just been for a run and decided something refreshingly hoppy was in order, along with the weather here in christchurch starting to clear up (not that its any warmer yet)These bottle are deceptively large, i thought they were 500's for some reason... anyways.
Appearance: Poured into my good redwine/beer drinking glass, beautifully clear, commercial clear almost, Golden amber colour, very much what I'd expect from a Pale Ale/XPA, nice bubles, well carbed.
Aroma: Hops a Plenty here, backed up by what i think is a small amount of pilsner malt? its pretty subtle though.
Flavour: Very Very Good (I feel like I've let myself down with my tuatara beer, sorry.) Siht tonnes of hop flavour, and some crisp malt backup, which is nice. I think I detect something in the aftertaste, thats not quite right, not sure what it is, but i think I've narrowed it down to either Acetaldehyde, or grassy.
Mouthfeel: I see what people mean when they say a bit thin, but its more of a pilsner type mouthfeel, It could do with a little more maybe.
Overall: While the odd flavour is a little bit distracting, now I'm halfway through its a lovely beer the pilsner malt ads something slightly more crisp than a normal APA.
On a separate note, can anyone tell me the difference between an XPa and an APA?
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I think your right, its gotta be pretty pale, my impression in the past its always been an almost sessionable IPA? so the grist of a pale ale using only light crystals, and some extra hops.
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