Description

Inspired by the awesome Bells Brewery and their new low ABV lo-cal session beer Light Hearted.

Balanced, and incredibly easy-drinking. Centennial and Galaxy hops result in citrus and pine aromas, while a variety of specialty malts help give Light Hearted its body and flavour.

 

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Ingredients Included

Crisp Extra Pale Maris Otter
Crisp Maris Otter
Crisp CaraGold Malt
Centennial Pellets
Galaxy™ Pellets
WLP4040 Midwestern Ale Yeast  (1 packs)

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Method

Beer Style (main): American Ales
Beer Style (sub): American-Style India Pale Ale
Batch Size: 19ltr
Original Gravity: 1.040
Final Gravity: 1.012
ABV %: 3.7%
IBU: 55

THE MASH
Temperature °C: 66
Length (mins): 45
Out temp °C: 77
Out time (mins): 10

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 75

Additions and timing:

45 mins – 14g Centennial
30 mins – 14g Centennial
10 mins – 1tsp irish moss (not included)

Secondary additions and timing:

Post Fermentation Dry hop day – 28g Centennial and 28g Galaxy – no longer than 7 days

Yeast: Yeast bay Midwestern
Fermentation temperature/steps: 20c until FG achieved

Comments:

A stunning West Coast IPA.

With this Premium Recipe kit you get the liquid yeast from the Yeast Bay that is ‘rumoured’ to be the exact same strain that Bells brewery uses.

This kit brews 19 litre clone of Bells new best selling Light Hearted. Enjoy all the benefits of a light beer and lower calories, aromatic, balanced, and incredibly easy-drinking. Centennial and Galaxy hops result in citrus and pine aromas, while a variety of specialty malts help give Light Hearted its body and flavour.

Note: if you are brewing this on a Grainfather G30 you will need to use the micro pipe work due to the total volume of grain being 3513g