Description

Following BrewCon in 2022 Richard Williams from the Dudes Brew YouTube Channel and The Hop Addition Podcast wanted to learn how best to use his samples of BarthHaas® Hop Products such as Spectrum and Incognito. He reached out to Stiffo and asked for some advice on an all grain kit  and as such the recipe for Focal Spectrum was born!

This recipe takes inspiration from Focal Banger by The Alchemist but also showcases the new hop products in their glory! We have used Citra Incognito in whirlpool,  Citra Spectrum in the Dry Hop and layered Mosaic Pure Hop Pellets through the process as well!

Expect a BIG juicy and full on beer with tons of citrus, mango and passionfruit across the flavours and aroma, plenty of body and residual sweetness.

You can check out Richard’s video on this project, featuring an interview with Stiffo here.

Please Note – Brewer must choose their yeast option as this kit doesn’t come with one automatically

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Ingredients Included

Crisp Extra Pale Malt
Simpsons Finest Lager Malt
Crisp Naked Oat Malt
Citra T90 Pellets (50 grams)
Maltodextrin 500g (1 packs)
BarthHaas® SPECTRUM – Citra® 20g – Dry Hop Addition (1 packs)
INCOGNITO – Citra 15g (1 packs)

BarthHaas® PureHop Pellets (200g)

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Method

Beer Style (main): American Ales
Beer Style (sub): Juicy or Hazy India Pale Ale
Batch Size: 23L
Original Gravity: 1.075
Final Gravity: 1.023
ABV %: 6.8%
IBU: 40

THE MASH
Temperature °C: 67
Length (mins): 60
Out temp °C: 75
Out time (mins): 10

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60 min

Additions and timing:

25 g (10 IBU) — Citra 13% — Boil — 5 min
25 g (10 IBU) — Mosaic PH 13.2% — Boil — 5 min
75 g (13 IBU) — Mosaic PH 13.2% — Aroma — 20 min hopstand
25 g (4 IBU) — Citra 13% — Aroma — 20 min hopstand
15 g (3 IBU) — Citra Incognito 12.8% — Aroma — 20 min hopstand

Secondary additions and timing:

30 g — Mosaic PH 13.2% — Dry Hop — day 3
20 g — Citra SPECTRUM (CO2 Extract) 12.8% — Dry Hop — day 3
70 g — Mosaic PH 13.2% — Dry Hop — day 7

Yeast: Imperial Yeast A38 Juice
Fermentation temperature/steps: 20c – 14 Days

Comments:

Carbonation: 2.4 CO2-vol

Water Profile

Ca2+ = 87
Mg2+ = 0
Na+ = 94
Cl- = 275
SO42- = 33
HCO3- = 0