Golden Weka Ale

Brew

Hops

Hop60min10min5minWPDHTotal
Motueka15g30g45g60g150g300g
WP for 20min @ 80C

Grain

  • 6kg Golden Promise

Yeast

2x Pomona

Water Treatment

2g Calcium Chloride (CaCl2), 4g Magnesium Sulphate (Epsom salts – MgS04), 8g Calcium Sulphate (Gypsum- CaSO4), 3ml Lactic Acid

Boil Additions

4g YN and 1.4g WF @10min

Brew

  • Mash in at 67.5°C with 16.5L, rest for 60 min at 67.5°C.
  • Mash out: 10min @ 75C
  • Sparge with 16L at 75°C
  • Preboil size 28.5L
  • Boil time 75mins
  • Postboil size 24.5L
  • Fermenter volume 23L

Fermentation

18.5C for 5 days, Dry Hop approx. day 3 when gravity drops below 1.020, raise to 21C for rest.

Fermenter Additions

dh 150g mot

Carbonation

N/A

Bottled

N/A

Final Volume

N/A

Notes

SMaSH beer with Golden Promise grain, Motueka hops, and Pomona Yeast.

Day 1: Sunday evening 8pm – Midway through fermentation, gravity 1.038 / abv 3.1%, bubbling away happily at approx. 4psi.

Day 2: Monday morning 9am 1.017 – very fast fermentation. I added dry hop at 10am due to the gravity reading being under 1.020 – it was a little earlier than anticipated but I’m sticking to the numbers on this one – very fast ferment. Attenuation reading at 72.2% with a total likely being around 80% to 85% so Dry Hop now allows for any additional sugars released by the hop enzymes to be processed before the yeast goes dormant (approx. 10% attenuation and 7-8pts gravity to go).

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