Batch Size (vol into fermenter): 24L
Bottling vol: 21L
Original Gravity: 1.062
Final Gravity: 1.014
ABV: 6.3 %
Mash Temp: 66c
Priming: 2.5 vol
5.40 kg Maris Otter
0.51 kg Munich
0.22 kg Carapils
0.22 kg Crystal 40
0.22 kg Melanoiden
30 g Mosaic (First Wort Hop)
40 g Mosaic (15 min)
40 g Mosaic (10 min)
40 g Mosaic (5 min)
50 g Mosaic (1 min)
100 g Mosaic (Dry Hop 7 Days)
SafAle English Ale S-04 (Rehydrated)
Notes:
- The hops are upped slightly from the original recipe (http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f69/three-floyds-zombie-dust-clone-303478/). This was due to one or two miscalculations I made while making this beer which may or may not have pushed it ahead! 250g still makes a great beer.
- The volumes are based on my equipment (geterbrewed BIAB kit).
- Mash in 27L for 60 mins, then pull bag. First wort hops are added to the kettle at this stage. Squeeze bag as much as possible, then dunk sparge in about 4L of sparge water in another bucket. Use this to top the kettle back up to 27L for the boil. This gives me ~75% efficiency.
- I use a bag for the hops and leave it in while chilling which takes ~30 mins with my chiller. My hope is this is beneficial (similar to hop stand).
- After this I sanitise my hands well and squeeze out the hop bag; they soak up a lot. I do the same after dry hopping.
- This leaves me with 24L into the fermenter which after fermentation results in 21L bottling volume.
- Ferment for 7 days @ 17c or as close as you can, then dry hop for another 7.
- Job done!
Looks tasty. Well done on the win!
Great to see BIAB winning medals
Lovely recipe. It really us a zombie dust base, though with a boatload more hops :)
I did something very similar a while a while back but whiteout the Melanoiden malt. Was very very happy with it
Contracts on the win
That's a lot of hops!
Congrats! I just can't get enough Mosaic, personally. I think I'm going to have to go out on a limb and call it my favorite hop over-all... Sorry Citra!
Adam
Quote from: biertourist on March 18, 2015, 10:58:21 PM
That's a lot of hops!
Congrats! I just can't get enough Mosaic, personally. I think I'm going to have to go out on a limb and call it my favorite hop over-all... Sorry Citra!
Adam
Them be fighting words! Heathen ;)
cheers pdb, one for the to-do list for sure :)
Thanks Pdb. I just ordered the hops and grain to do this one..
Quote from: Mac780 on April 13, 2015, 08:54:37 PM
Thanks Pdb. I just ordered the hops and grain to do this one..
Great let us know how it turns out!
Congrats on the gold and thanks for the recipe Paul.
Just brewed this using the All Grain method. Pretty happy with the brew day; hit most of the targets and it was largely uneventful apart from a small-ish spill when transferring into FV. Some amount of Citra going into the brew, 245g in all, house smells delish!
What are peoples thoughts on 10 day dry hopping? Seems a bit excessive no?
Also what are peoples experiences of fermenting to 1.018? Did you have to keep checking the FG when it was close? i.e. will it go lower if left too long fermenting? I don't really want this beer any stronger than 6.6-6.8%. I used S-04 yeast as recommended.
Better get the cleaning products out before SWMBO returns.
Nice one Johnny :)
I do a 7 day dry hop, I haven't heard of any benefits from doing longer, though there's plenty of reports of grassy flavors from doing longer than 7. In regards to the FG, the yeast will go as far as they can which depends on things like mash temp and yeast health. S-04 tends to finish a bit higher than 05, for me mashing at 66c it tends to finish at 1.014. Anyway keep us updated!
I had a few hiccups. I left the valve on my mash tun open as I poured in my strike water. Realised after a minute or two but was never really sure of volume/ gravity after that.
Then my hop filter came off. This, coupled with the fact that HBC sent me a pack of pellet and leaf hops instead of all leaf for the boil phase meant that I had 5 litres of gloop at the bottom of the kettle. It blocked the tap so I lost it all. Tried straining it but it just produced trub sludge.
I diluted this down with boiled water. We had the horrors on Saturday after a few 6%+ IPAs Friday night, so I wanted an OG of 1052. Yield in the fermenter= 22 litres.
Am loving the smell of mosaic though.
Its my first time using 04 and the Krausen has dropped out fully! Is this normal?
Its still bubbling away.
Would it make much of a difference if I didn't use Mosaic or Citra for bittering? Kind of kills the single hop beer I know.
Quote from: winstonia on April 28, 2015, 04:27:16 PM
Would it make much of a difference if I didn't use Mosaic or Citra for bittering? Kind of kills the single hop beer I know.
Id say you'll be fine. Use something fairly neutral like magnum. I really disliked the bitterness I got from bittering with citra.
How did this turn out for people? I'm going to brew it today.
Quote from: Mac780 on April 20, 2015, 08:46:16 PM
Its my first time using 04 and the Krausen has dropped out fully! Is this normal?
Its still bubbling away.
Yep 04 flocs like a champ.
Quote from: revel_and_chaff on May 16, 2015, 09:56:51 AM
How did this turn out for people? I'm going to brew it today.
I only transferred it to a keg last weekend so I haven't sampled it properly, but I had a taste from what was left in the fermenter after the keg was full and I liked what I tasted. From the little glass I sampled I thought it was pretty well balanced but it's obviously a hop forward beer. It smelled great and was pretty clear after crashing for 4 days but I'll leave it another week or so before a proper sample. I'm a fan of Citra and I think you have to be to like this recipe.
People keep going for his one in my house. It ties together beautifully. worth doing to experience the hop and the malt bill is great with it.
Sorry for dragging up another old thread, I've been wanting to do a brew with Mosaic and came across this one.
Just wondering what adjustments to the grain bill do I need to make to reduce the ABV? Ideally about 5% ish
I'm using the BIAB method, my grain bill on all my brews so far have been about 5.5KG - I don't think I'd have the room for another KG
Do you have brewing software like beersmith it allows you to mess around with grain for abv colour and hops for ibus
My trail Beersmith license ran out, was using the brewers friend calculator but not sure how I'm affecting the taste by say dropping base malt to 5 kg, Munich to 300g and the others to 100g.
This is a good article on working out stuff like this, fun if you like maths.http://homebrewmanual.com/home-brewing-calculations/ (http://homebrewmanual.com/home-brewing-calculations/)
If you want to reduce or increase ABV I only ever adjust the base malt in recipes, you can leave the special malts alone.
Quote from: vinyljunkie on December 14, 2016, 08:47:43 PM
My trail Beersmith license ran out, was using the brewers friend calculator but not sure how I'm affecting the taste by say dropping base malt to 5 kg, Munich to 300g and the others to 100g.
Beersmith is so cheap just get it. And we have a discount code as members. We spend so much on gear, etc but really beersmith is probably the best investment I've made as a brewer. If you put this recipe in you can just slide the og to give you a 5.5% version that's set up for your gear. Anyway on your question if you do make a 5.5% version you should probably drop the ibus a little too.
Quote from: vinyljunkie on December 14, 2016, 07:36:58 PM
Sorry for dragging up another old thread, I've been wanting to do a brew with Mosaic and came across this one.
Just wondering what adjustments to the grain bill do I need to make to reduce the ABV? Ideally about 5% ish
I'm using the BIAB method, my grain bill on all my brews so far have been about 5.5KG - I don't think I'd have the room for another KG
I did (and continue to do) this beer using BIAB. If you're worried about space, draw off about 3L of your total water before mash and save that for the dunk sparge. Works great. That said as others mention you should be using either brewersfriend or beersmith, otherwise you're flying blind. Good luck!
Cheers, so you draw off a few liters in a bucket, dump the grain bag in that when you're heating up the kettle to sparge? Will look into beersmith cheers.
Quote from: vinyljunkie on December 15, 2016, 04:37:03 PM
Cheers, so you draw off a few liters in a bucket, dump the grain bag in that when you're heating up the kettle to sparge? Will look into beersmith cheers.
* Start out with 27L
* Draw off 3L into a bucket
* Mash in the remaining 24L
* Towards the end of the hour, heat up your 3L to about 75c. I use my standard kitchen kettle for this.
* Lift the bag out and into your sparge bucket, give it a good rinse and squeeze out as much as possible.
* Use this to top up your boil kettle to boil volume, for me 23L.
This is a general guide, recommend you use beersmith to hone in the numbers but it's quite easy and gives good results.
Brilliant Paul cheers for that, I'll brew this up over Christmas and let you know how it goes. Will try go for the full grain bill.