How to Brew a Citra & Strata IPA (Full Brew Day & Recipe)
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2024
- If you like Citra, this homebrewed IPA will be a favorite. To complement the grapefruity-ness of the Citra we use Strata, a dank fruity hop, and some Xtra Pale Viking 2-row to give it a light straw color.*Equipment links in the description below*
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I'm not a huge Citra fan myself but this beer speaks to me. It's super light and hoppy perfect for summer. We got a bit lower gravities than expected but I have a strong feeling (after much soul searching) that it was because I changed my estimated mash efficiency to 85% in Brewfather. This may have been wishful thinking since we were in the 60's this time!
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Recipe:
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Citra Strata
New England IPA (more like a West Coast in the end)
6.4% (Actual 5.9%) / 16.1 °P
All Grain
BIAB (No sparge)
85% efficiency (actual 59.6%)
Batch Volume: 5 gal (actual 4gal)
Boil Time: 60 min
Mash Water: 6.82 gal
Total Water: 6.82 gal
Boil Volume: 5.87 gal
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.060 (Actual 1.041)
Vitals
Original Gravity: 1.066 (Actual 1.059)
Final Gravity: 1.017 (Actual 1.014)
IBU (Tinseth): 57
Color: 5.9 SRM
Mash
Temperature - 152.6 °F - 45 min
Malts (10 lb 8 oz)
9 lb (85.7%) - Viking Malt Pale Ale 2-Row - Grain - 3 SRM
1 lb (9.5%) - Briess Wheat White Malt - Grain - 2.3 SRM
4 oz (2.4%) - Briess Caramel Malt - Grain - 10 SRM
4 oz (2.4%) - Cargill (Gambrinus) Honey Malt - Grain - 25 SRM
Hops (7 oz)
1 oz (34 IBU) - Strata 12.9% - Boil - 30 min
2 oz (15 IBU) - Citra 11% - Boil - 5 min
1 oz (9 IBU) - Strata 12.9% - Boil - 5 min
2 oz - Citra 11% - Dry Hop - 1 days
1 oz - Strata 12.9% - Dry Hop - 1 days
Miscs
2 g - Calcium Chloride (CaCl2) - Mash
Yeast
1 pkg - Lallemand Nottingham Yeast
Fermentation
Primary - 68 °F - 14 days
Forced Carbonated, 30 PSI for 5 minutes while shaking
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Watching a homebrewing video with a homebrew is one of the best things in life.
Glad I can assist :)
Sarah came up to WA, made me dust off my brew gear that had been sitting idle for a few years and totally resurrected my passion for brewing! In the past few weeks she has taught me so much, I had never really made the jump into all grain, and the brew in a bag methods. What a game changer it has been. The beer she makes is just far and away better than I had been making. She is a great teacher, and I have learned so much from her in the past few weeks. Gonna be sad to see her go back to LA. She is leaving us with gallons of beer... so yeah.....thanks @florabrewing! Hurry back!
It’s way more fun brewing with you in the woods than in my 5sq foot kitchen!! Can’t wait until I’m permanently up here!!
This was great! Thank’s for showing your full brew day
Of course the maltmill is graded in milli'n-meters!😃
Greetings from Europe ❣️
You are the best, thank you Flora. always accompanies you from Brazil
love how you brew outdoors!
Me too beats a steamy kitchen any day!
Thanks, you answered my one question i mailed to you. Great video again ... keep them coming
Thanks, will do!
that was an awesome video! some funny clips at the end! LOL man, a good brew day for sure! Nice! cheers!
If you can wear shorts and brew outside it's going to be a good brew day!
Saludos desde Argentina!!! Buenas birras!!!
Great video, nice one👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🍺🍺🍺
can't wait
Hops provide oil to stop a hot break, but they also provide tons of nucleation sites for the boiling wort which decreases the size of bubbles and significantly increases the amount of bubbles, causing a boil over when you chuck a bunch of hops in :)
very true!
First off, great video! You guys are getting the production down as you go! Secondly, about the fermenter specifically, I know a couple people with these fermenters and whenever they do a dry-hop, they use a thin filament (un-waxed, un-flavored tooth floss) to suspend the bag or stainless filter above bottom. While it isn’t perfect, it does have better results. I have done the same with my Speidel fermenters. Since it is so thin, putting it in around the rubber stopper doesn’t allow any gas to escape. May be worth a shot next time. Any way, good stuff. Keep on brewing!
The weird thing is it wasnt the bag preventing it, it was the trub at the bottom! I think using a finer mesh hop bag could work better but IDK if I would use it again.
Superb, really enjoy the style of your videos, always jovial and showing the slight cock ups makes me feel better.
Glad you like them!!
Just brewed a cream ale today. My next batch will be trying one of your recipes for sure.
Fantastic!
Great video again!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Watching this from Atlantic Canada, brewing is great fun and that beer should be great fun to drink, looking forward to a tasting vid.
Haligonian watching as well
Glad you enjoyed! Review is coming out in 40 minutes!
and just realized the review coming out is the Tripel not this one...next week this one will be released! Still editing it :)
I’ve only ever missed my gravity’s with Viking malt , though the price is right and the beers taste ok
Yeah what is that? Jenny and I did a RyePA with viking pils and hit our targets exactly wonder if its their 2row thats wonky
Just got a nice tip to squeeze the grains. Tks. Greetings from Brazil.
It really works!
Another top brewday there sounds like a top beer.
It’s a goodie!
any pics of the beer? would love to see how hazy it was with the dry hops in before fermentation began.
I love citra 🍻
Most people do! I'm more of a stone fruit/ mango flavor hop person.
Hi Flora try to show us the Dryhopping and packaging if is possible. We will apreciatte a lot. Thanks for your vídeos....
The dry hop happened in this video. Packaging was a mess but in the future I plan on adding some clips.
If you’re dry hopping with loose hops I might suggest weighing down the hops with something you can sanitize and weigh down like glass marbles.
Hey Sarah. Love your channel. Just an FYI garden hoses are not generally made with food grade material. Sorry if other people made this comment. I didn't read the 107 comments before I made this comment. Not trying to be a douchebag. Apologies if I am Cheers Jim
I do have a similar fast ferment and I would agree they are not good for dry hopping or heavy sediment. However they do work great for wines and ciders which is what I use mine for exclusively.
Yeah they had it for blackberry wine so it’s now going to be ONLY for that haha
Some food for thought on why you may be missing your numbers: For BIAB 0.04 is a rather large gap. Try going to 0.02. Double crushing also will help your mash efficiency. Mashing higher or lower will not affect your OG, only your FG. Lowering the mash temp will result in a more fermentable wort and in turn can result in a higher ABV. Typically, 10# of grain, depending on your starting volume of water for a 5 gallon batch, should get you in the 1.050-1.052 range, assuming good mash efficiency. You can also increase your mash efficiency by using a larger kettle and doing a full volume mash. And adding hops to a vigorous boil can easily result in a boil over. Even though the hops have oils, they aren't extracted the second you add them to a boil. The hops act as nucleation sites and can cause the wort to really foam up quickly and cause a disaster of a boil over. Try using Fermcap S. Add about 10 drops to a 5 gallon batch, and you'll never have to worry about a boil over again! Cheers!
So many hot tips! Thanks for taking the time!
I have seen the burn off rate change with different burners and pots , when I changed to a 15 gallon pot reading were all over the place .. Prost great vid
Yeah my burner at home is much different than this one.
0.04 I would imagine is 40 thousanths of an inch, which is 1mm in metric.
Brewed a session-ish IPA (OG was 1.055 ... 13.5 Brix) today and used your board/slat idea to squeeze grain bag. Worked well. Did learn that you have to continually push bag in so it doesn’t leak over the side of the kettle. I also use a spray bottle of sanitized water to tame hot break and and boil ups. Works well. Pitched WL001 but no starter...was lazy. Hoping for About 6% and change. Used centennial and falconer’s flight. Also something new ... froze a quart of pasteurized organic mango and passionfruit juice and added with chiller. We’ll see! Lol. Will dry hop some falconers for 3 days.
Yeah I kind of mush the sides in as I go, if you get a really tight roll to begin with it's not as much of a problem. That beer sounds right up my alley. Love a fruited IPA.
Can always pop in some DME if you come out low on your gravity. Nice video, nice process!
Totally. I always keep some around but it gets expensive!
Você não tem problema com taninos? Vi que você expreme o BAG com o bagaço do malte para extrair o máximo de mosto.
Nice to see you’re still brewing! Wondered what happened to your Instagram. Cool to see you BIAB with just a bag and not the Clawhammer. Makes me want to get their starter system because I’ve been wanting to make the switch to all grain. Do you still make doggy treats with the spent grains?
I’m still on insta! It’s honestly mostly stills from videos now. We make them all the time!
Great video! How do you like the Evil Twin grain mill? Is it worth buying?
Thanks!!!
Love it! I really like that it has the markings for the roller width
Hi Flora, I'm from Brazil and there is no Honey Malt here. Can I replace it with Biscuit malt?
I always have a pound of corn sugar around in case I’m under my target for the pre-boil gravity.
I keep DME around but usually don't use it and just see how things turn out
If your original gravity is low you can just add some DME pre boil to boost it
Yup yup! I usually just boil off but I’ve been known to DME it ocassionally
quick question and apologies if it is in here somewhere else. i like the idea of adding the dry hop right at the beginning to avoid introducing oxygen later. do you recommend pulling the bag of dry hops out after a certain period of time or leave them in there until racking to the keg? If so, about when would you pull them? thanks and keep up the great work.
I just leave them. if you pull out you're undoing the oxygen prevention that you were aiming for in the first place
Just thinking, the grain crush could be affecting your efficacy. Nrw grain mill might not be adjusted fine enough? Maybe.
Very possible!
did you take in a count for the water profile? that matters.
Don’t know what it is up there haven’t had it tested and it’s well water so no municipal authority to ask
Are you measuring mash ph?
Not in WA, in LA I do when I'm feeling motivated
Soy u nuevo brewer de tijuana B.C MEXICO y me agrado esta receta tratare de hacerla con 5 galones y el ajuste
ya que este les mando como quedo 😁👌
SORRY NO escribo en ingles 😔
I’ve never tried weed but love me a dank IPA
It was more fruit than weed haha It turned out really nice!
what software do you use for BIAB - i have some recipes i make with a full all grain brew with fly sparge and looking for a quick double brew day - going to try brew in a bag. Do you recommend a software to convert grain bill for no sparge? Thanks
I use brew father's BIAB no sparge setting works great!
Hi, don't you filter your water?
Not in WA it's well water and tastes GREAT
Hi. What size kettle do you use?
In this video it was an 8gal kettle but at home I use a 10 gallon Anvil kettle or 10 gallon Clawhammer supply electric system.
@@FloraBrewing thanks! I was looking into going to biab from extract. Some of the information out there is confusing regarding what size kettle you should use for biab. Do you think the clawhammer system is worth the money or just use a traditional biab?
No sparging, just squeezed the bag of grain? Were there sugars left in the grain that could have been sparged out?
Perhaps. I mean I think the Viking malt may be a little less great on the conversion scale than the Briess I usually use. There's many factors at play but in the end it made a great beer.
You're brewing a lot. How many fermenters are going now? I've still got my Dark Mild and my Bell's Amber going.
She made us brew every weekend, task master!! Hahaha, it was great. Rain or shine.
It was beer bootcamp haha!
Also, don't hops CAUSE boil overs because they provide nucleation points for steam to form and foam up?
I have a similar problem. I normally hit my estimated OG, but my FG is always lower than I want. 😂
I feel like every brew I did in WA was just trying to figure out how to adjust for the system and now I'm back in LA and like well shit now I have to forget everything I learned up there lol
Is that a food safe hose? Hose water doesn’t sound too appealing
We realized it probably wasn't on the third brew. You've never drank from a hose on a hot day before? Missing out!
Flora Brewing haha I’m from Northern Ireland summers never that hot! Enjoyed the video. Always tricky brewing on someone else’s kit but you handled it well and in the wind!
A hi from Brazil :)) today i made a Saison with cardamom... bye bye
Sounds great!
Missed your OG? Viking malt will do that
Hmmmm yeah I'm usually a Briess girl
@@FloraBrewing I use viking malt lot, I have a source for cheap bulk buys of it. I've learned to work with it. But it definitely doesn't convert as well as other malts
Oh yah, I am from Indonesia.
Riggamarole
Beautiful tatoo!! nice work and beautiful girl😊🖒😀🤗✌🐥
I would be wary of using water from a garden hose. Garden hoses, unlike household plumbing, aren't manufactured to deliver safe drinking water. In addition to bacteria and mold, the water from a garden hose typically contains the toxic chemicals:
lead (yikes!)
antimony
bromine
organotin
phthalates
BPA (bisphenol A)
Lead, BPA, and phthalates are used in garden hoses mainly to stabilize the plastics. The most common plastic is polyvinyl chloride, which may release toxic vinyl chloride. Antimony and bromine are components of flame retardant chemicals.
The more you know.
Water from a rubber hose? Water from a water heater? Brew on.
Turned out great! It was from a tankless water heater. I've brewed commercial beers with the same kind of system and they turn out great! Hose prob isn't ideal...haha
First hop addition creates a violent reaction that is worse than a boil over. Need to be careful.
Ohh yeah especially in that little pot!
Haii I like your first video and voices, but like your body more,..can you make single whisky or moonshine? Thank you!