True To Style #12 – Summer Hazy Pale – Strata & Nelson Sauvin

These all grain kits are all designed with one thing in mind, making great tasting beer at affordable prices. We’ve built and created this range to offer our first “core” range of all grain kits that represent either great ingredients, methods or beer styles which we adore.

All of them are 23 litre batches and come in at sensible strengths for the mid week beers or sessions at the weekend! Read our full blog post on this range here!

This recipe showcases a coupling of two wonderful hop, Strata and Nelson Sauvin. The expression of style is furthered due to the yeast option chosen, SafAle S-33 delivers delicate peach notes on the nose but where it really shines is the haze generated. Soft, thick and stable…. Everything you would want from a hazy, juicy summer pale ale! Strata will bring all the heavy notes in this beer with classic dank notes and pine but some citrus and some strawberry. Coupled with more delicate top notes of tropical fruit and white grape from the Nelson Sauvin, we find this beer to have a full on expression of the style.

We are planning to embrace hop creep too, allowing the beer to further dry out after we add our dry hop addition. This will result in a finished beer being slightly crisper than some hazy pale ales, but this adds to its drinkability in our opinion!

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Ingredients Included

Crisp Torrified Wheat
TMM Oat Flakes 20
Simpsons Malt – Extra Pale Malt
Nelson Sauvin Pellets (50 grams)
Strata – T90 Hop Pellets 100g (1 pack)
Hallertauer Magnum – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellet (10 grams)
SafAle S-33 (1 pack)

Total Grain Weight 4.7kg

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Method

Beer Style (main): American Ales
Beer Style (sub): Juicy or Hazy Pale Ale
Batch Size: 23
Original Gravity: 1.046
Final Gravity: 1.010
ABV %: 4.7
IBU: 28
Mash efficiency: 80
Brewing equipment:

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 68
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60
Temperature °C (Step 2): 75
Length (mins) (Step 2): 10
Temperature °C (Step 3):
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Temperature °C (Step 4):
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Mash notes:

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Hop / kettle additions and timing:

10g Magnum @ 60mins

Whirlpool / hop stand:

Cool wort to 80c then add the following:

-25g Nelson Sauvin
-50g Strata

Whirlpool for 15mins then allow to stand for a further 15mins for hops to settle. Begin transfer after the full 30mins have expired, your total contact time with the hops in the kettle should be around 45-50min.

Yeast: Safale S-33
Fermentation temperature/steps: 18c, 10 days with the final 2 days at 21c for a Diac rest

Secondary additions:

Add your remaining hops (25g Nelson Sauvin and 50g Strata) to the Fermenter at the end of fermentation. At this point you will have a gravity reading at around 1.014. We are aiming with this recipe to allow hop creep to take place in the fermenter by adding the dry hops. This will create a further fermentation and dry the beer out further to around 1.010. You will need to check for the fermentation to have completed using a hydrometer and visual signs such as airlock activity.

Once you are happy fermentation has fully finished you can now cold crash the beer to 4c over a few days. After you have hit your target 4c temperature remove the hop matter and yeast from the bottom of your FV if you have the ability and move onto packaging.

Pro tip, if you have a conical fermenter, after day one of your hops being in the fermenter you can push CO2 though the dump valve at the bottom of the cone. This will drive the hops back into suspension in your beer and extract more flavour. If you are planning to try this technique ensure you dump excess yeast from the bottom of your FV before you dry hop the beer.

Comments:

This beer is a refreshing summer hazy pale ale with a slightly crisper finish to help quench your thirst on a warm summers day. With the complex combination of Strata and Nelson Sauvin hops, we will be embracing hop creep and accounting for it with our recipe! Expect a thick and hazy appearance thanks to the use of Safale S-33 as the yeast option and plenty of oats and wheat.