I've been doing Mini-mash brewing for about a year now, and have been trolling the forums for inspiration (I think I'll wait until I get my all-grain setup running this summer before trying the DFH 120s!). I've gotten far enough along to start being adventurous, and I'm thinking about putting together a Hurricane Kitty clone.
I seem to remember this beer as being a more hoppy copper ale. After cutting my teeth on New England beers like Otter Creek Copper & Long Trail IPA, now I'm on the west coast and trying to build some of the flavors of home.
I contacted Tommy Keegan, and he was able to give me some guidelines:
90% 2 row pale malts
5% crystal
5% caramalt
Columbus hops for bittering, Cascade for everything else, including dry hop
OG = 17.5P (1.072)
FG = 3P (1.012)
On the internet, I found:
SRM 8
IBU 63
With those in mind, I put this together in Beersmith:
8lbs 2-row US Pale
6.4oz Crystal 60L
6.4oz Crystal 10L (replaces the caramalt)
Mash @ 150F for 75min, Sparge w/ 2.6gal @ 168F (Beersmith single infusion, no mash out profile)
.65oz Columbus (14% aa) @ start of boil
.75oz Cascade (5.5% aa) w/ 15m to go
1oz Cascade (5.5% aa) w/ 5m to go
California Ale (WLP001) yeast
1oz Cascade dry hop for 7 days
Mini-Mash:
3lbs 7.4oz Light DME
2lbs 0.4oz 2-row US Pale
2.8oz Crystal 60L
2.8oz Crystal 10L
Same mash profile as above
Now it's been a good 5 years since I've had this beer, and I don't have a good base of copper ales to compare this recipe against, so I'm turning to the community for help in tuning this. I may have some time to try this out (in a mini-mash) in about 2 weeks, otherwise it will have to wait until July.
Thank you for your help!
I seem to remember this beer as being a more hoppy copper ale. After cutting my teeth on New England beers like Otter Creek Copper & Long Trail IPA, now I'm on the west coast and trying to build some of the flavors of home.
I contacted Tommy Keegan, and he was able to give me some guidelines:
90% 2 row pale malts
5% crystal
5% caramalt
Columbus hops for bittering, Cascade for everything else, including dry hop
OG = 17.5P (1.072)
FG = 3P (1.012)
On the internet, I found:
SRM 8
IBU 63
With those in mind, I put this together in Beersmith:
8lbs 2-row US Pale
6.4oz Crystal 60L
6.4oz Crystal 10L (replaces the caramalt)
Mash @ 150F for 75min, Sparge w/ 2.6gal @ 168F (Beersmith single infusion, no mash out profile)
.65oz Columbus (14% aa) @ start of boil
.75oz Cascade (5.5% aa) w/ 15m to go
1oz Cascade (5.5% aa) w/ 5m to go
California Ale (WLP001) yeast
1oz Cascade dry hop for 7 days
Mini-Mash:
3lbs 7.4oz Light DME
2lbs 0.4oz 2-row US Pale
2.8oz Crystal 60L
2.8oz Crystal 10L
Same mash profile as above
Now it's been a good 5 years since I've had this beer, and I don't have a good base of copper ales to compare this recipe against, so I'm turning to the community for help in tuning this. I may have some time to try this out (in a mini-mash) in about 2 weeks, otherwise it will have to wait until July.
Thank you for your help!