The Hop Addition Podcast – SMASH Series

To celebrate our recent sponsorship of The Hop Addition Podcast, we wanted to bring you a series of recipes that come directly from the team over at The Hop Addition! If you haven’t listened to the podcast then check it out here. Hosted by 4 amazingly passionate home brewers right here in the UK, The Hop Addition focus’ on bringing you both knowledge and entertainment from a wide range of guests and topics, all focused on our love for brewing amazing beer at home!

“Welcome to The Hop Addition Podcast. What started as 2 blokes in sheds talking about homebrew, while drinking homebrew has blossomed into something we’re very proud of. We’ve gained 2 more guys, and we’re digging into the things homebrewers are making and trying to pass on some useful information to help them make their beverages easier and better. Hopefully.”

Following our recent appearance on The Hop Addition Podcast, where we had an amazing discussion about SMASH recipes we would like to brew, we thought we just had to gather all those recipes and publish them as a series for you all to have a go at brewing!

This is Martin’s Centennial SMASH, featuring the hop he adores the most, hence the name of this beer!

You can also follow and watch the Live Steam of their podcast here

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Ingredients Included

Simpsons Malt – Best Pale Ale Malt
Centennial – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets – 100g (2 packs)
LALBREW® VERDANT IPA Dried Yeast 11g (1 pack)

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Method

Beer Style (main): American Ales
Beer Style (sub): American-Style Pale Ale
Batch Size: 23
Original Gravity: 1.049
Final Gravity: 1.010
ABV %: 5.1
IBU: 55
Mash efficiency: 80
Brewing equipment:

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 67
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60
Temperature °C (Step 2): 75
Length (mins) (Step 2): 10
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Mash notes:

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Hop / kettle additions and timing:

30g Centennial @ 60min
30g Centennial @ 10min

Whirlpool / hop stand:

40g Centennial @ 85c for 30min Whirlpool

Yeast: Verdant IPA – 1 Packet
Fermentation temperature/steps: 18c – 10 days

Secondary additions:

100g Centennial Dry Hop 14c at the end of fermentation, rouse if possible after 24 hours and again after 48 hours. Also to assist in this, if possible drop the yeast cone from the fermenter before dry hopping.

Comments:

Following our recent appearance on The Hop Addition Podcast, where we had an amazing discussion about SMASH recipes we would like to brew, we thought we just had to gather all those recipes and publish them as a series for you all to have a go at brewing!