Description

We totally adore Oregon Trail, the award winning west coast IPA from Elusive Brewing. Imagine a classic West Coast IPA that delivers bitterness, pine and resin, all balanced out like those classic American IPAs. This beer has won the hearts and minds of many drinkers, brewers and not to mention a fair few awards too.

When Andy at Elusive told us he was brining back the stunning bigger Double Oregon Trail and we were lucky enough to taste this from the tank we begged and pleaded with him to share the recipe for home brewers to have a crack at brewing this epic beer.

So here it is, the 8% Double Oregon Trail Recipe Kit, we hope you enjoy this very special beer and do it justice when you brew it yourself at home.

 

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Ingredients Included

Simpsons Malt – Munich Malt
Simpsons Malt – Low Colour Maris Otter

7450g total grain bill

Mosaic – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets (39 grams)
Simcoe Pellets (80 grams)
Columbus – BarthHaas® LUPOMAX® – Pellets 50g (1 packet)
Citra T90 Pellets (80 grams)
Chinook T90 Pellets (80 grams)
WHC LAX Yeast  (2 packs)

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Method

Beer Style (main): American Ales
Beer Style (sub): American-Style Imperial or Double India Pale Ale
Batch Size: 23
Original Gravity: 1.069
Final Gravity: 1.008
ABV %: 8.0
IBU: 100
Mash efficiency: 80
Brewing equipment: Grainfather G40 was used to calculate recipe on GF software, but suitable for all systems.

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 64
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60
Temperature °C (Step 2): 75
Length (mins) (Step 2): 10

Mash notes: Mashing more towards 63 will give you the 8% and a dryer beer like the beer in can. If you prefer it to have more body and lower abv then mash higher at 65%

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Hop / kettle additions and timing:

First Wort Hop. – dose with Flex for 40IBU (4.6g) – NOT INCLUDED as you might already have this and will not need to have included for future brews.

16g – Chinook @ 30m
16g – Chinook @ 20m
16g – Chinook @ 15m
16g – Chinook @ 10m

Whirlpool / hop stand:

16g – Chinook Whirlpool @ 100c
100g Citra Whirlpool @ 100c

Elusive whirlpool for 20mins, it then takes 40 minutes to chill and transfer to FV, so for best result adjust the whirlpool/contact time according to your system/process.

Yeast: WHC LAX
Fermentation temperature/steps: 18-20c until FG is reached

Secondary additions:

Columbus LUPOMAX 40g Dry Hop @ 7 days (once primary settles down)
Simcoe T90 80g Dry Hop @ 9 days
Mosaic BBC 39g/L Dry Hop @ 9 days

Dry Hopping is done at ambient temp. 24hrs after final addition begin to chill down.
Those with the ability to dump hops from fermenter should do so after 4 days of contact time.
You need to package this beer clear and bright.

Comments:

We totally adore Oregon Trail, the award winning west coast IPA from Elusive Brewing. Imagine a classic West Coast IPA that delivers bitterness, pine and resin, all balanced out like those classic American IPAs. This beer has won the hearts and minds of many drinkers, brewers and not to mention a fair few awards too.

When Andy at Elusive told us he was brining back the stunning bigger Double Oregon Trail and we were lucky enough to taste this from the tank we begged and pleaded with him to share the recipe for home brewers to have a crack at brewing this epic beer.

So here it is, the 8% Double Oregon Trail Recipe Kit, we hope you enjoy this very special beer and do it justice when you brew it yourself at home.