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 one is Richard Williams (Dudes Brew) SMASH Lager, featuring the awesome Nelon Sauvin hop!

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

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Ingredients Included

Weyermann Floor Malted Bohemian Pilsner Malt
Nelson Sauvin T90 Pellets – Hop Revolution
Nelson Sauvin – T90 Pellets 100g (1 pack)
Wyeast 2124 Bohemian Lager. BB: 17/02/2024 (1 pack)

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Method

Beer Style (main): Other Origin Lagers
Beer Style (sub): Australasian, Latin American or Tropical-Style Light Lager
Batch Size: 20l
Original Gravity: 1.048
Final Gravity: 1.011
ABV %: 4.9
IBU: 29
Mash efficiency: 75
Brewing equipment:

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 63
Length (mins) (Step 1): 30
Temperature °C (Step 2): 70
Length (mins) (Step 2): 30
Temperature °C (Step 3):
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Mash notes:

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Hop / kettle additions and timing:

20 g (17 IBU) — Nelson Sauvin 9.9% — Boil — 20 min
20 g (7 IBU) — Nelson Sauvin 9.9% — Boil — 5 min

Whirlpool / hop stand:

40 g (5 IBU) — Nelson Sauvin 9.9% — Aroma — 20 min hopstand @ 75 °C

Yeast: 1 pkg — Wyeast Labs 2124 Bohemian Lager
Fermentation temperature/steps: Primary — 12 °C — 8 PSI — 6 days Primary — 14 °C — 8 PSI — 2 days Primary — 16 °C — 8 PSI — 2 days Primary — 18 °C — 8 PSI — 4 days Conditioning — 2 °C — 15 PSI — 30 days

Secondary additions:

40 g — Nelson Sauvin 9.9% — Dry Hop — 3 days

Comments:

This recipe requires a yeast starter to be built prior to brewday, 2.4l of DME mixed and boiled then cooled to pitch your yeast into. Allow for fermentation to complete and then cool the starter down, pour off the liquid leaving just the yeast slurry at the bottom. Pitch this into the FV at the end of your brewday.