#28 My Blazing World
| Brewed: | Feb 2015 |
| Style: | IPA |
| ABV: | 6.9% |
| Original Gravity: | 1.063 |
| Final Gravity: | 1.010 |
| Bitterness: | 84 IBUs |
| IBU/OG: | 1.357 |
| Batch Size: | 23 ltr |
| Method: | Batch Sparge |
| Mash Temp: | 64.4°C |
| Mash Volume: | 20.3 ltr |
| Sparge Volume: | 1.6 + 14.5 ltr |
| Mash Time: | 75 min |
| Boil Time: | 60 min |
| 6.5kg | Gladfield Ale Malt | |
| 700g | Gladfield Munich Malt | |
| 100g | Acidulated | |
| 100g | Gladfield Pale Chocolate Malt | |
| 12g | Simcoe 13.3% | First Wort Hops |
| 30g | Mosaic 12% | Boil 60 min |
| 25g | Nelson Sauvin 11.6% | Boil 60 min |
| 33g | Simcoe 13.3% | Steep 10 min |
| 30g | Mosaic 12% | Steep 10 min |
| 15g | Nelson Sauvin 11.6% | Steep 10 min |
| 110g | Nelson Sauvin 11.6% | Dry Hop 7 Days |
| 55g | Simcoe 13.3% | Dry Hop 7 Days |
| 30g | Mosaic 12% | Dry Hop 2 Days |
| Mangrove Jacks M44 US West Coast Yeast | ||
| 1 Carbonation drop per 500ml bottle | ||
Modern Times have released a homebrew clone recipe of Blazing World, and given they released it you think I should have followed it. But no I did not. The numbers from their recipe do not match that of the commercial beer, so I thought I would tweak it a bit (I was not going to get the same ingredients so I may as well).
Notes
After a good brew day I noticed the fermenter had stopped bubbling only after a couple of days, and the gravity was too high. Not the experience I had heard others say of this yeast. I thought it was temperature related (calibration error on the temperature controller), so I bumped up the temp about 3 degrees and whilst I never saw any more air lock activity, the final gravity was good. Having gone back and recalibrated my two temperature gauges, the temperature controller was correct in the first place. So who knows
Tasting Notes
This is a nice beer – out of balance, but tasty. Good carbonation, and hard to believe it is only around the 6-7% mark.