Brewed 1 Jan 2019 | Kegged 12 Jan 2019 | Yield 19 L / 4.7% (11.3°P → 2.4°P)

When one brews beer on New Year’s Day, the name suggests itself. Had this one been dry-hopped to within an inch of its drinkability, in full Brooklyn style before sour beer and craft whisky became a thing, it’d be called Hoppy New Beer instead, but that’s not my thing, so we’ll go with the less complex (but IMO ultimately better) pun.

This is basically just Batch Sixteen with a bit of Citra and Cascade added to the mix, and US dry yeast instead of the Belgian, to ‘states it up a bit.

Grain Bill

Same as Batch Sixteen.

• 2150g Pilsner malt (7 EBC)
• 2150g Light Wheat malt (4 EBC)
• 320g Dinkel malt (4 EBC)
• 80g Acid malt (5 EBC)

Adjuncts

Same as Batch Sixteen.

• 25g organic orange peel
• 25g whole coriander seeds

Mash

As with Batch Sixteen, I crushed whole grains with a stone flour mill. This time I set the grind finer, and ground the wheat malt finer still. While I got an extra degree of initial gravity, and the sparge (8L, 78°C) took a more reassuring 14 minutes, it doesn’t seem to have made much difference to ABV.

Mash program is the same as Batch Sixteen.

• Mash in 23L @ 54°C
• 30 min @ 62°C
• 40 min @ 65°C
• 10 min @ 72°C
• 5 min @ 75°C
• 5 min @ 78°C

Boil

I boiled the wort for five minutes before adding the first hops, then added hops and spices as follows:

• Bittering: 60 min 20g 11.6% Ariana
• Bittering: 60 min 10g 13.2% Citra
• Flavor: 30 min 25g whole coriander seeds
• Flavor: 30 min 25g chopped organic orange peel
• Aroma: 3 min 27g 3.3% Callista
• Aroma: 3 min 8g 13.2% Citra

Pitching and Fermentation

Cooling to 24°C with an immersion cooler took 38 minutes. Initial gravity was 11.3°P. Pitched 11.5g of Safale US-05, to 20L of wort. Enthusiastic fermentation started after 24 hours, and continued for about two days.

Bottling and Kegging

Final yield was 19L, primed with 100g table sugar in 300mL of water. I kegged 8.6L (pressurizing to 0.5atm) and bottled the remainder.

How is it, then?

Another halfwit turns out as expected: the green beer is refreshingly fruity and nicely hoppy. It’s an American white ale, like it says on the tin.