2016 Advent, December 13 - Tim's Cascade Harvest SMaSH

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2016 Advent, December 13 - Tim's Cascade Harvest SMaSH

Post by KMcK » Sun Nov 13, 2016 9:23 pm

This American Pale Ale was brewed in response to Tim Gregory's offer of free fresh cascade hops. It was my first all fresh hop beer, which inspired me to go the SMaSH route in order to fully appreciate the contribution of the fresh hops.

Phyl and I brewed as large a batch as we estimated the hops would be suitable for, split the wort in two, and fermented on different yeasts. We froze some of the hops and used them for dry hopping post fermentation. Those of you who attended Hoptoberfest sampled the Safale US-05 version, which fermented much faster than the WLP862 (Cry Havoc) version. I found the latter (which is what I bottled for the exchange) to be a bit tastier than the former.

It's bottle conditioned so give it time to settle and then pour carefully. The quantities below are for the full batch (33 litres post boil).

Malt
2 row: 7.5 kg

Hops
cascade (fresh) (60 minutes): 570 g
cascade (fresh) (20 minutes): 145 g
cascade (fresh) (0 minutes): 145 g
cascade (fresh) (dry hopped): 145 g

Yeast
Cry Havoc (White Labs WLP862) (liquid): 1 vial

Water
Pockwock: 51 l

Procedure
mash: 68° C, 60 minutes
boil: 60 minutes
fermentation: 20° C, 6 weeks
cold crash: 7° C, 2 weeks
conditioning (in bottle): 20° C, 3 weeks

Specs
alcohol: 5.4% ABV
bitterness: 40 IBU (?)
colour: 3.4 SRM

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Re: 2016 Advent, December 13 - Tim's Cascade Harvest SMaSH

Post by jacinthebox » Mon Dec 12, 2016 4:49 pm

My bottle was chunky with hop leaves. Also bottle really Belgiumy...not sure I'd this was the intent.
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Re: 2016 Advent, December 13 - Tim's Cascade Harvest SMaSH

Post by Jimmy » Tue Dec 13, 2016 7:45 pm

jacinthebox wrote:My bottle was chunky with hop leaves. Also bottle really Belgiumy...not sure I'd this was the intent.
Mine had 2 full hop cones in it, so maybe that's where your leaves came from?

The beer is good, but definitely a straight up Belgian yeast profile to it.

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Post by jacinthebox » Tue Dec 13, 2016 9:17 pm

Jimmy wrote:
jacinthebox wrote:My bottle was chunky with hop leaves. Also bottle really Belgiumy...not sure I'd this was the intent.
Mine had 2 full hop cones in it, so maybe that's where your leaves came from?

The beer is good, but definitely a straight up Belgian yeast profile to it.
Lol...figured that he put a couple cones in each bottle after we drank Eric's bottle last night. I just wasn't ready for them to plop into my glass lol
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Re: 2016 Advent, December 13 - Tim's Cascade Harvest SMaSH

Post by CartoonCod » Tue Dec 13, 2016 9:44 pm

I had a full cone in mine. I get where you are coming from when you say Belgiumy, but I've got a feeling the hops are contributing to that flavour.

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Re: 2016 Advent, December 13 - Tim's Cascade Harvest SMaSH

Post by KMcK » Wed Dec 14, 2016 1:01 am

Yes, a fresh hop or two is in every bottle. It's like the toy in children's cereal, but for adults.

I've brewed a few times with the cry havoc yeast but haven't noticed any Belgian characteristics to it. I did find that it contributed more to the flavour than the US-05 did.
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Re: 2016 Advent, December 13 - Tim's Cascade Harvest SMaSH

Post by Broob » Fri Dec 16, 2016 6:57 pm

Lots of esters in this one. Tasty. Thanks.
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Post by jmacdonald » Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:44 pm

Definitely a Belgium almost clove like flavor in there. Not sure where it is coming from but its there for me as well. Enjoyable beer.

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Re: 2016 Advent, December 13 - Tim's Cascade Harvest SMaSH

Post by LiverDance » Sun Jan 08, 2017 7:36 pm

Thanks Kyle, the beer was well represented by the fresh hops. Lots of "wet hop" flavors with a firm bitterness coming from them :cheers:
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.

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