tropic bomb pale ale

[baphomite51]

What would the reason be for such low numbers I thought the lower the better ie better attenuation which is good. Wats the negatives of this?

[DEMPSEY]

Is your test tube big enough that has the beer and hydrometer floating free in it. Any sediment in the bottom will push up the hydrometer and so give a false reading.

[baphomite51]

Ye it's quite a large cylinder could be some sediment as it's only a week fermentin so I'll give it another week and check it then.

[biertourist]

I LOVE this hop combination when used for late hopping; just brewed with Amarillo, Citra, and a bit of home grown hops myself; just love those tropical flavors.

It's pretty incredible the different flavors you can coax from different hop varieties; super citrusy, tropical fruit, strawberries, pine, dank / marijuana-like, herbal English varieties, and just "hoppy" tasting German, Czech and eastern European varieties.  -Oh yea and Nelson Sauvin which is so unique I put it in it's own category.


Either really citrusy or the tropic fruit flavors are definitely my favorites, though.

[baphomite51]

I LOVE this hop combination when used for late hopping; just brewed with Amarillo, Citra, and a bit of home grown hops myself; just love those tropical flavors.

It's pretty incredible the different flavors you can coax from different hop varieties; super citrusy, tropical fruit, strawberries, pine, dank / marijuana-like, herbal English varieties, and just "hoppy" tasting German, Czech and eastern European varieties.  -Oh yea and Nelson Sauvin which is so unique I put it in it's own category.


Either really citrusy or the tropic fruit flavors are definitely my favorites, though.

im really begining to love these flavours i tried fransican wells ipa which is an all citra brew and it blew me away think im going to go all citra on my next one, maybe a zombie dust clone, thats if i can actually get any as the stuff seems hard to come by right now. what variety of home grown hops did you use, thats pretty interesting. but hops are pretty amazing and how they can manipulate them and combine them is great theres so many possibilities.

bit of an update on this anyway. i checked my gravitys today after the 2 week mark and they'v seemed to stabilize i got 1.008 for the 05 and 1.010 for the 04, my last readings must have had hop and yeast particles in it which caused the low reading. but this makes me worry about my OG reading when i took that i could see tiny particles of hops as i dont use muslin bags in my boil so how off could my reading actually be?? and is there anyway to combat this in the future. i tasted the samples and i have to say i was very very impressed with the 05, i immediatly got a smell of pineapple and there was a lovely fruity sweetness there, still alot of harsh bitterness but what can you expect after 2 weeks. the 04 was a bit more dissapointing there was still that sulfur smell and i couldn get much fruityness off it, it was more on the malty side for some reason and lacked the hoppyness i got from the 05, is this possible? i tasted the 05 first could this have made me a bit less sensitive to the flavours when tasting the 04?

[baphomite51]

I LOVE this hop combination when used for late hopping; just brewed with Amarillo, Citra, and a bit of home grown hops myself; just love those tropical flavors.

It's pretty incredible the different flavors you can coax from different hop varieties; super citrusy, tropical fruit, strawberries, pine, dank / marijuana-like, herbal English varieties, and just "hoppy" tasting German, Czech and eastern European varieties.  -Oh yea and Nelson Sauvin which is so unique I put it in it's own category.


Either really citrusy or the tropic fruit flavors are definitely my favorites, though.

im really begining to love these flavours i tried fransican wells ipa which is an all citra brew and it blew me away think im going to go all citra on my next one, maybe a zombie dust clone, thats if i can actually get any as the stuff seems hard to come by right now. what variety of home grown hops did you use, thats pretty interesting. but hops are pretty amazing and how they can manipulate them and combine them is great theres so many possibilities.

bit of an update on this anyway. i checked my gravitys today after the 2 week mark and they'v seemed to stabilize i got 1.008 for the 05 and 1.010 for the 04, my last readings must have had hop and yeast particles in it which caused the low reading. but this makes me worry about my OG reading when i took that i could see tiny particles of hops as i dont use muslin bags in my boil so how off could my reading actually be?? and is there anyway to combat this in the future. i tasted the samples and i have to say i was very very impressed with the 05, i immediatly got a smell of pineapple and there was a lovely fruity sweetness there, still alot of harsh bitterness but what can you expect after 2 weeks. the 04 was a bit more dissapointing there was still that sulfur smell and i couldn get much fruityness off it, it was more on the malty side for some reason and lacked the hoppyness i got from the 05, is this possible? i tasted the 05 first could this have made me a bit less sensitive to the flavours when tasting the 04? i threw in my hops to begin my 1 week dry hop cant wait to check back on it next week

[baphomite51]

bottle with S-04 10/12/13 fridged for 2 days: lovely colour but very dark no light gets through the head making it appear dark and murky. sweet tropical fruits on the nose mainly pineapple, good carbonation big head from pour which dissapaits to a dense stuburn half finger head that leaves lacing down the glass. great mouth feel to it maybe due to the lowish carbonation in it right now but it still gives a good head, the bubbles are small and dont sting the mouth it may change with more time and get fizzyer but right now i really like it it feels juicy in the mouth with great body. taste is dominated by hops you get a slight fruityness from them followed by a nice smooth bitterness which hangs around in the back of the mouth for a moment and then gives way to a fruity after taste. however in my opinion it could use more hops mainly late additions to enhance the flavour but the fact that this was made using S-04 may be causing this, wen i tried samples the S-05 seemed to have more hop flavour so it will be interesting to see how the S-05 tastes. i would like to have more of a malt back bone aswell maybe introduce a little bit of crystal or munich next batch.

bottle with S-05 12/12/13 in fridge two days: great aroma from hops very fruity, tropical fruits pineapple and such. lovely colour quite pale in natural light. good head nicely carbonated starts off with a nice head and dissapaits like S-04, mouthfeel is very nice not too carbed and fizzy to my liking, could be a tiny bit more carbonated. taste is more intense than S-04 definatly more hops to it but could be a little more intense but definatly very good, followed by a nice smooth non intense bitterness, flavour lingers in the mouth which is very nice no bad after taste. not much malt to it which id like to change with a bit of munich maybe or carared which i like. so whoever advised me on S-05 Cheers

really surprised how good this turned out especially since its my 5th brew, its great how u can make something completely based on your own taste thats you love

heres a pic

[baphomite51]

Here's another update and a pic. On the right is the S-04 and on the left is the US-05, I can't believe the colour difference of these two identical beers except for the yeast how can yeast make such a big colour contribution I'm very confused???

[baphomite51]

It is weird when I pour the S-04 it has a pale lilac hue to it, anyone have any sort of explanation, I'm guessing these should be the same colour as yeast doesn't make any color contribution (if it's not in suspension)

[Will_D]

Weird!

I concur Dr. Tube - I can't believe a yeast can do this. Colour molecules are very different to the flavour compounds that yeasts produce.

@IR32: Sure they are the same beers with different yeasts?

[baphomite51]

Defo the same beers all I done wat split the batch from the kettle bottled on the same day and caps marked  they are most def identical except for the yeast

[baphomite51]

Yup same boil just split into serperate fermentors and yeasts added. So that's literally the only difference same priming sugar used aswell both primed with white table sugar so same everything except for yeast.

[Will_D]

There could be a PhD here!

[baphomite51]

The only one difference I can think of is that the s-04 was stored in a glass carboy and the US-05 was stored in a plastic bucket, can't see how that would make a difference. I've heard that the more yeast in suspension the lighter a beer will appear as yLight bounces off the yeast but I dunno if that's even true

[johnrm]

Partigyle? One is first runnings?