Freezer Clearing Imperial Amber

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Freezer Clearing Imperial Amber

Post by mr x » Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:44 am

Well, it was time to clear out some of the old leaf hops with a big amber ale. Specifically, I put 3 lbs of hops into the keggle at 10 minutes. It actually took me 10 minutes to get them all in without boiling over. Literally like mixing cement. When I cleaned out the keggle the next day, it was half full of tightly packed hops - I had to cut them out in hunks. :lol: The smell in the house is outrageous.

The recipe is from BCS, which is basically a Red Rocket malt base. I threw in 1 lb of sugar as well to keep up the gravity.

http://beerdujour.com/Recipes/Jamil/Jam ... xtract.htm

Used -05, would have preferred 1272, but it has not arrived yet.
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Re: Freezer Clearing Imperial Amber

Post by LiverDance » Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:57 am

Must have been a weekend to brew amber ales :P I did one as well with Chinook and Cascade throughout, Nothing like the beast you've got there though! Sounds like it'll be a good one.
"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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Re: Freezer Clearing Imperial Amber

Post by mr x » Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:01 pm

No better way to spend Thanksgiving.:)
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Re: Freezer Clearing Imperial Amber

Post by LiverDance » Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:38 pm

Agreed :D I also did the deshuttes black butte porter clone from CYBI but didn't get the hops I need so I went with all Chinook cause I had them. I'm thinking the piney taste from Chinook will go good in a porter.
"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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Re: Freezer Clearing Imperial Amber

Post by mr x » Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:15 pm

Cool, I've looked at that one too many times. You'll have to save me one. :mrgreen:
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Re: Freezer Clearing Imperial Amber

Post by mr x » Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:59 pm

Well, this was one crazy beer to brew. I threw in 3 lbs of hops in at the last 10 minutes. It actually took ten minutes to get them in, because the whole keggle wanted to boil over. When I emptied the keggle the next day, it was half full of hard packed leaf hops. Should be an interesting beer. :mrgreen:
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Re: Freezer Clearing Imperial Amber

Post by KMcK » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:43 pm

LiverDance wrote:Agreed :D I also did the deshuttes black butte porter clone from CYBI but didn't get the hops I need so I went with all Chinook cause I had them. I'm thinking the piney taste from Chinook will go good in a porter.
You'll have to bring it over to my place and pour it in my Deschutes Black Butte Porter glass. I bet it would taste better that way.

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Re: Freezer Clearing Imperial Amber

Post by mr x » Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:01 pm

This beer turned out really well. And incredibly clear, up close it looks almost filtered. That's a rarity for me.
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Re: Freezer Clearing Imperial Amber

Post by JohnnyMac » Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:17 pm

It's a really great beer. Nice aroma and hop forward.

I can attest to it personally.
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