Janet's Brown Ale?

[mike____]

Just bottled mine. 1.016 final gravity (from 1.070). Excellent!
Smells and tastes great.
5th batch of Janet's (of 29 total so far). God I love this beer!

[ElectricLandlord]

I'm about to brew up another batch of this amazing recipe and realized I need to restock on chocolate malt. My LHBS stocks UK Chocolate & UK Pale Chocolate - which do you reckon would go best? I think I've always used Chocolate in the past, wondering what difference the Pale Choc would give.

Cheers,

Martin

[TastyMcD]

I've tasted great versions done with Pale Chocolate as well as British Chocolate. The Russian River JBA is made with Crisp Chocolate malt.
Tasty.

[ElectricLandlord]

Awesome. Thanks Tasty. We don't get the Crisp malts here in NZ so I think I'll spin the bottle and pick either UK Pale Choc or UK Choc.

[HayaBrew]

Hi Tasty,

I'm gonna brew this for my next batch for the first time, pretty excited about it.

In the recipe you have Cascade at 0 minutes. Do you steep this in the whirlpool for 30 minutes after flameout? Also, do you use the HopRocket for filtering/hop aroma, and if so, what amount do you use?

Thanks!

At flameout (0 minutes) I stir the wort with a brew spoon for 30 seconds and then I let it sit for 30 minutes. Then I pump (pull actually because the pump is on the cold side of the Therminator) the wort through the Hoprocket (upside down) filled with 4 ounces of whole hops placed in a hopsack. This takes about 15 minutes for 12 gallons. I use the Hoprocket (hopback) to filter the wort. I don't think it adds much aroma compared to dryhopping.

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Thank you. So if I understand it correctly you do both a 0 minute addition of Cascade that steeps for 30 minutes and then 4 ounces of Cascade in the Hoprocket?

[TastyMcD]

Hi Tasty,

I'm gonna brew this for my next batch for the first time, pretty excited about it.

In the recipe you have Cascade at 0 minutes. Do you steep this in the whirlpool for 30 minutes after flameout? Also, do you use the HopRocket for filtering/hop aroma, and if so, what amount do you use?

Thanks!

At flameout (0 minutes) I stir the wort with a brew spoon for 30 seconds and then I let it sit for 30 minutes. Then I pump (pull actually because the pump is on the cold side of the Therminator) the wort through the Hoprocket (upside down) filled with 4 ounces of whole hops placed in a hopsack. This takes about 15 minutes for 12 gallons. I use the Hoprocket (hopback) to filter the wort. I don't think it adds much aroma compared to dryhopping.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/530193_4128258440331_1287708584_n.jpg

Thank you. So if I understand it correctly you do both a 0 minute addition of Cascade that steeps for 30 minutes and then 4 ounces of Cascade in the Hoprocket?

That's correct.

[BeaverBarber]

Are you going to put Janet's Brown on the Brewing With Style show next month? I wanted to go head to head with the best.

[HayaBrew]

How do you measure the IBU contribution from the hop stand?

In the recipe there is 1.50 oz. Cascade Pellet 6.00 0.0 0 min. If I treat a 30 minute hop stand of this 0 min addition as a 15 minute boil it would contribute about 10 IBU. Would the 60 min, 15 min and 10 min additions also have a significant IBU impact from the 30 min hop stand? Then I could easily end up with a beer with 70-80 IBU?