I brewed this a few months ago. It was one of the best beers I've ever had. Everyone who tired it agreed. It was gone in 2 weekends between a few people. I wish it wasn't such a PITA to get amarillo. I am going ot make 10 gal of this soon.
If I toast the malt at home, I won't have access to a mill afterwards, so it won't work for me. What would be a good substitute for the toasted malt?
stonebrewer said:Farmhouse has Amarillo in stock. Go get some before it is gone and make this beer!
Yeah, but I'd have to take a second trip over there and it is pretty far away, so I'd rather not. I will if I need to though. I really want to make this.
I toasted my malt after it was milled and it worked fine. The beer turned out fantastic. In fact, I just ordered the ingredients to make another batch.
Vigo_Carpathian said:If I toast the malt at home, I won't have access to a mill afterwards, so it won't work for me. What would be a good substitute for the toasted malt?
My HBS accidentally milled and combined all my grain before I could toast it. So I just pulled out 2 lbs of grain from the bag and toasted it. Beer turned out great! Another option would be to replace those 2 lbs with Vienna.
So I'm really stoked to be making this beer on Saturday, especially since I've been reading about it for months.
I've got 1 oz each simcoe and amarillo as pellet and 2 oz each as whole hops. Any thoughts on when best to add which type (pellet vs whole hop?) Doubt it will matter, I think this is going to be a freaking blast to brew!!
Definitely dry hop with the whole leaf and bitter with pellets. This should keep your IBUs closer to what is calculated.
Thanks, Sippin! Can't wait to make this. I'm a lifelong Chicagoan living in exile in the western suburbs.
atimmerman88 said:Went through a few dozen pages, and search wasn't helping out...
I know 05 is a nice clean work house that is very consistant for me...
Just curious if anyone has tried wlp007 for a tad drier or wlp051 for a fuller body?
Just looking for some ideas before I brew this sunday.
trapae said:Can anyone who has made this Brew chime in for me and tell me if lake walk tastes like 90 minute dogfish head ipa? The reason I ask is I'm one of those few rare people who don't like the 90 minute dogfish head. Something about the taste just isn't right for me. I looked up the recipes and it is also made with Amarillo and Simcoe. Different malt bill and amounts of hops though.
Thanks
T
trapae said:Can anyone who has made this Brew chime in for me and tell me if lake walk tastes like 90 minute dogfish head ipa? The reason I ask is I'm one of those few rare people who don't like the 90 minute dogfish head. Something about the taste just isn't right for me. I looked up the recipes and it is also made with Amarillo and Simcoe. Different malt bill and amounts of hops though.
Thanks
T
Well, I think I mucked this one up a bit. My preboil gravity came in at 1.040 instead of 1.050 and I was trying to have a preboil of 50 liters or 13.2gal for a 12 gal batch, but I ended up with more like 11.5 gal or 44 liters because I had to throw out some of the later runnings because they were too watery. I'm not sure what happened to my efficiency this time.
Do you have any suggestions for how to hop this thing now? I figure that I will cut back the 60 and 20 min additions a bit, but I'm not sure exactly how much to cut.
I would just boil it until I get my target gravity, but it's already too dark as it is. I wonder if the toasted malt that I used was converted more than I thought it was.
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