"Trashy Blonde III" - My Take On BrewDog's Trashy Blonde

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SteveW
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"Trashy Blonde III" - My Take On BrewDog's Trashy Blonde

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"Trashy Blonde III" - My Take On BrewDog's Trashy Blonde

My Third Attempt!

Target O.G. : 1.042
Target IBUS : 40

Recipe is for 23 litres.

Grist:

3754 g Pale Malt 85%
442 g Carapils Malt 10%
221 g Munich Malt 5%

3 hour Mash at 66 Degrees Centigrade
90 minute Boil

Bittering Hops (all Last 15 minutes of boil):

42 g Motueka @ 7.2 % A.A.
30 g Amarillo @ 9.5 % A.A.
10 g Simcoe @ 12% A.A.

10g Irish Moss Last 15 minutes of Boil

Post Boil Hops (chucked in at around 95 degrees for 45 minutes):
I would wait now until 80
13 g Motueka
12 g Amarillo
14 g Simcoe

Fermented with:
Records do not exist! most likely Gervin or failing that Nottingham .

Dry Hopped with:

24 g Motueka

Matured in cask for just under three weeks.
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Re: "Trashy Blonde III" - My Take On BrewDog's Trashy Blonde

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I'd wondered what the hop schedule was on that. I knew there was Motueka in there, but that was about it.

I'm curious as to why you mash for as long as 3 hours, though.
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Re: "Trashy Blonde III" - My Take On BrewDog's Trashy Blonde

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I suppose for me there are two reasons, the first being habit, as I brew a lot of beers from the Durden Park Book, where the recommended mash time is three hours. The second is that as my mash tun is a passively heated insulated 'Zaptap' I am not that confident in its use, I mash longer as I feel that will give me a better extract although for such a low gravity beer as this, I take your point that a shorter mash maybe of around 90 minutes would do the job.
I will experiment with a 90 minute mash the next time I brew this.
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