Feb Fasting - February 2017 - BeerCo Brewing News ?
Dermott Dowling
Hello Brewers and welcome to our February 2017 BeerCo Brewing News. Whether you are a Feb Faster or prefer Sobertober or or Dry July we wish you well and encourage all our customers and drinkers to enjoy responsibly and in moderation. We here at BeerCo enjoy a beer with flavour and feel that you can drink better while drinking less and enjoy your beer more and take good care of your health all at the same time. Having done a few Feb Fasts in the past I always find it is a great opportunity to get my brewing on and re-stock the fridges, fermenters and generally slow down, detox and remind yourself who is in control of your consumption. There is no need to let the nanny state tell you how to live healthy. We all have a responsibility as guardians of our own industry to enjoy our alchemy responsibly and watch out for our nearest and dearest and friends to make sure they are enjoying their beer and drink in celebration and not for any other reason. Enough serious talk, let's get on with the February 2017 - Brewing News ?. This month is a bumper issue where we talk about Gladfield Toffee Malt, Belma™ Crosby Hop Hash™, GigaYeast Saison #1 GY018 v Saison #2 GY027, Crown 40L Urns with concealed element and Brew in a Bag and our newest BeerCo Recipe Kit | Harvest | Saison and so please read on for the BeerCo Brewing News...
Author: Caleb De Frees - Gladfield Malt Editor: Dermott Dowling - BeerCo
Toffee in the confectionary world can mean almost anything, sugar and butter with almost any ingredients added in such as raisins or nuts. Toffee can be soft and sticky or aerated and crunchy. However in the world of malt it means only one thing.
Gladfield Toffee Malt is perfect malt for those summer time beers. It brings some nice light caramel sweet flavours and a refreshing, but not over the top sweetness, that compliments summertime pale ales, light lagers and golden ales.
Gladfield Toffee Malt is best utilized in lighter colour beers where it can impart all of its great flavours without increasing beer colour.
There are some tricks to utilizing this unique malt due to its low colour it retains more moisture than a typical crystal malt. This gives the malt its unique chewy toffee texture and flavour, but also makes it difficult to mill on its own. Due to the small kernel size it can simply slip through the rollers if your mill gap is setup for Gladfield plump base malt. This problem can be overcome quite easily by mixing the Toffee malt in your recipe with the base malt.
Mill both your Gladfield base (Ale, Pilsner, Vienna or Munich) and Toffee Malts together to make sure the Toffee malt is crushed properly.
It is no surprise that toffee malt makes an appearance in most of the summer beers brewed at Gladfield Farm and Maltings on their pilot brewery.
Basically Gladfield Toffee Malt is a fully caramalised malt that has been roasted at very low temperature. This special roasting cycle produces a very light colour and the resulting malt is toffee like to chew instead of the crystallised popcorn effect of using higher temperatures during roasting. The resulting malt is very popular for adding a malty toffee flavour to lighter coloured beers and also adds good beer stability, body and mouthfeel.
Author/Editor: Dermott Dowling - BeerCo
Belma Session IPA
Belma ™ US Crosby Hop Hash™ is sticky resinous and concentrated hop matter that will test the lupulin threshold of even the most experienced hop fiends. Due to it being the concentrated scrapping from the Pellet Mill during the pelletisation process of Hop Harvest you will experience up to and sometimes over double the oil and alpha and beta acid of normal T90 Hop Pellets. This makes Belma Hop Hash perfect for late kettle or whirlpool additions or even dry hopping to get maximum hoppy goodness into your beer.
GigaYeast Saison #1 GY018 is a traditional Saison yeast from a French craft brewery.
GY018 produces fragrant beer with pepper and fruit notes. Warmer fermentations create more intense flavours.
Saison #1 GY018 GigaYeast is perfect for accentuating citrus and fruit flavours. High attenuation rates make a dryer beer than GY027 Saison #2 GigaYeast.
GigaYeast Saison #2 GY027 is from a traditional farmhouse Saison. GY027 creates the fruity and spicy aroma traditional to the style.
Warmer fermentation temperatures result in a more intense flavour. GY027 Saison #2 GigaYeast produces a tartness not found in most of our yeast and a slightly sweeter beer than GY018 Saison #1 GigaYeast.
Crown Industries Strainer Accessory fits Heavy Duty 30 Litre and 40 Litre Crown Urns and sits over the top of your concealed or unconcealed element to keep your grain and brew in a bag clear of the heating element and prevent burn on or burn holes in your Brew Bag.
Place your crushed or milled grains in this high quality food grade nylon grain bag and then place the bag inside your Kettle or Crown Urn or Mash Tun. BIAG is a great way to learn all grain brewing with a no / low mess approach and fast and easy way to allow you to do single vessel brewing at home.
These Brew In A Bag, grain bags are manufactured from food grade nylon with reinforced seams.
Harvest | Saison | BeerCo Recipe Kit is a traditional Wallonian harvest ale brewed with Gladfield Pilsner, Munich and Wheat Malts, hopped with US Willamette and GR Hallertauer Mittelfruher and fermented with your choice of either GigaYeast GY018 Saison #1 or #2 Liquid Yeast or Lallemand Danstar Belle Saison Dry Yeast. Refreshing, in balance and true to style this beer is just as thirst quenching for the modern city office worker of today after a hard day on the keyboard and a single speed ride home from work in the burning February sun as it was for the Wallonian farm worker after a hard days work on the scythe at Harvest time! Santé!
Malt of the Month - Gladfield Toffee Malt
Author: Caleb De Frees - Gladfield Malt Editor: Dermott Dowling - BeerCo
Toffee in the confectionary world can mean almost anything, sugar and butter with almost any ingredients added in such as raisins or nuts. Toffee can be soft and sticky or aerated and crunchy. However in the world of malt it means only one thing.
Gladfield Toffee Malt is perfect malt for those summer time beers. It brings some nice light caramel sweet flavours and a refreshing, but not over the top sweetness, that compliments summertime pale ales, light lagers and golden ales.
Gladfield Toffee Malt is best utilized in lighter colour beers where it can impart all of its great flavours without increasing beer colour.
There are some tricks to utilizing this unique malt due to its low colour it retains more moisture than a typical crystal malt. This gives the malt its unique chewy toffee texture and flavour, but also makes it difficult to mill on its own. Due to the small kernel size it can simply slip through the rollers if your mill gap is setup for Gladfield plump base malt. This problem can be overcome quite easily by mixing the Toffee malt in your recipe with the base malt.
Mill both your Gladfield base (Ale, Pilsner, Vienna or Munich) and Toffee Malts together to make sure the Toffee malt is crushed properly.
It is no surprise that toffee malt makes an appearance in most of the summer beers brewed at Gladfield Farm and Maltings on their pilot brewery.
Basically Gladfield Toffee Malt is a fully caramalised malt that has been roasted at very low temperature. This special roasting cycle produces a very light colour and the resulting malt is toffee like to chew instead of the crystallised popcorn effect of using higher temperatures during roasting. The resulting malt is very popular for adding a malty toffee flavour to lighter coloured beers and also adds good beer stability, body and mouthfeel.
Technical Specification:
- Moisture (%) Max <7.5
- Extract (dry) Range 74%
- Wort Colour Range EBC 10 – 20
- Typical Colour 12
Usage:
- Adds Toffee / Honey flavours with low colour impact
Usage Rates Guidance:
- Up to 25%
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Gladfield Toffee Malt 1 Kg Bags at $4.95 Incl. GST
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Gladfield Toffee Malt 25 Kg Sacks at $74.95 Incl. GST (SAVE 40% ON 1 KG PRICE)
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Oktoberfest – Märzen – BeerCo Recipe Kit $49.50–$55.00 Incl. GST
Hop of the Month - Belma ™ Crosby Hop Hash
Author/Editor: Dermott Dowling - BeerCo
Belma Session IPA 
Posted by Clint Tichnell on 13th Dec 2016 on http://www.hopsdirect.com/belma-pellets/
Found this Hop at the Craft Brewers Conference in Philadelphia earlier this year and did a small batch with the samples we obtained and really liked the Hop. We have since Made an all belma session IPA that turned out remarkable. Its a 5.5% session ale with a nice citrus, melon, Possible Cucumber? What I Really liked was the nice clean bittering property that it has and have since began to utilize it as a bittering hop in our Scorned Woman IPA. I highly recommend giving this hop a try. Clint Tichnell Head Brewer - Tuned up Brewing Company We are thrilled to have a strictly limited first time in Australia quantity of quality fresh Belma ™ #HopHash. What is #HopHash we hear you say? Probably best you take the time to watch this very short YouTube video from Zak at Sweetwater Brewery who were credited with coming up with Hop Hash after a visit to Crosby Hop Farm in Woodburn, Oregon where this wonderful Belma Crosby Hop Hash has been processed for packing out to you wonderful brewers! [embed]https://youtu.be/fvoSIXvQm4A[/embed] Hop Hash ™ is produced from scrapping the pellet mill for left behind concentrated hoppy goodness – see diagram below for illustration of how it is made:
Belma ™ US Crosby Hop Hash™ is sticky resinous and concentrated hop matter that will test the lupulin threshold of even the most experienced hop fiends. Due to it being the concentrated scrapping from the Pellet Mill during the pelletisation process of Hop Harvest you will experience up to and sometimes over double the oil and alpha and beta acid of normal T90 Hop Pellets. This makes Belma Hop Hash perfect for late kettle or whirlpool additions or even dry hopping to get maximum hoppy goodness into your beer.
BELMA HOP HASH ™ is here from Lot # H-526 Puterbaugh Farms a fourth generation hop farming family that has been growing hops in the fertile Yakima Valley of Washington State since the 1930’s. BELMA is a NEW hop variety exclusively grown at Puterbaugh Farms. Dr. Shellhammer from Oregon State University tested Belma ™ brewing a Pale Ale noting the following flavour descriptions: A very clean hop, with a very orange, slight grapefruit, tropical pineapple, strawberry, and melon aroma.
BELMA ™ US 2016 HOP HASH ™ is sticky resinous and concentrated hop matter that will test the lupulin threshold of even the most experienced hop fiends.
Brewing Usage
- Dual Purpose
- Late additions – whirlpool, kettle, dry hopping
Aroma
- Orange
- Slight Grapefruit
- Tropical Pineapple
- Strawberry
- Melon
Flavour
- Citrus – High
- Tropical Fruit
Complimentary Hops
Beer Styles
- American-style Ales
- Cream Ale
- Pale Ale
- IPA
Additional Information
- First released in 2012.
- Hop Storage Index – 0.290
Typical Brewing Specification:
- Alpha Acids 17.1%
- Beta Acids 7.6%
- Total Oil: 2.3 mL / 100 gm
- Test Date: 29 Nov 2016
- Lot: H-526
- Pelleted at Crosby Hop Farm, Woodburn, OR
- Grown at Puterbaugh Farms out of the Yakima Valley in Washington, USA
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BELMA™ HOP HASH™ US CROSBY HOPS 50GM $9.95 incl. GST (only 2 packets left!)
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BELMA™ HOP HASH™ US CROSBY HOPS 100GM $19.95 Incl. GST
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BELMA™ HOP HASH™ US CROSBY HOPS 250GM (SAVE 10% ON 100GM PRICE) $44.95 Incl. GST
Yeasts of the Month - GY018 Saison #1 and GY027 Saison #2 GigaYeast
Author: Amelia McCullough at GigaYeast Editor: Dermott Dowling at BeerCo February downunder is harvest season and Saison is the traditional harvest beer. An increasingly hip, cool and modern style craft beer Saison was originally brewed by and for the farm workers back in the day and was made from throwing whatever left over barley, wheat and grain was lying around in France or Belgium into a fermenter at the end of harvest and was often inoculated with the local flora or wild yeast and enjoyed fresh and in season. GigaYeast have isolated two wonderful unique and different Saison yeast strains for you to brew your own fresh harvest saison or you might like to try souring your saison for a modern or is that traditional twist?
GY018 Saison #1 GigaYeast
$14.95 Incl. GST
Attenuation Medium Gravity*
- 81% – 83%
Attenuation High Gravity*
- 49% – 53% (6.2% – 6.8% ABV)
GY027 Saison #2 GigaYeast
$14.95 Incl. GST
Attenuation Medium Gravity*
- 79% – 83%
Attenuation High Gravity*
- 44% – 47% (5.5% – 6.0% ABV)
Both GY018 Saison #1 GigaYeast and GY027 Saison #2 GigaYeast
Temperature Range†:
- 18˚C – 27˚C (64˚F – 80˚F)
Flocculation:
- Low
Representative Beer Styles:
- Saison
- Farmhouse Ale
- Belgian Ale
- Biere De Garde
Equipment of the Month - Crown Industries - Heavy Duty Hot Water Urn 40 Litre - Concealed Element
$295.00 Incl. GST
Manufactured right here in Melbourne, Australia! Yes, that is correct! Do not laugh or look away, we do still make stuff in 'Strayla and not just a few more Holdens and Fords and Toyotas for another 6 months before they are outsourced to Asia. Crown Industries was formed in 1997 by experienced people in manufacturing and marketing in the Commercial Catering industry. Crown Industries exports products to Europe, the Middle East, Singapore, Malaysia and beyond. Crown Industries appliances set a high standard against similar manufacturers from around the world.
Aussies being an innovative bunch who are always on the lookout for a bargain and faster easier ways to brew their beer for less effort required, came up with a novel way to make an all-grain beer with all the flavour but without all the cost and hassle of a state of the art 3 Vessel Stainless Steel brewery with pumps and HERMS or RIMS and created "Brew In A Bag" brewing. If you are wondering what "Brew in a Bag" is well, it is just that! Brewing in a bag inside a big pot or in this case inside your trusty Crown Urn! For many a brewer this is how they first venture into all grain brewing using full grain mashing and sparging and boiling in the same single vessel. If you want to read and research more on "Brewing in a Bag" we can recommend the following great article:
Brew In A Bag : A Simple and Complete Illustrated Guide
Crown Heavy Duty Hot Water Urn 40 Litre Concealed Element includes a range of built in features that place it the top of the list of Urn manufacturers. Suitable for use as a Hot Liquor tank for homebrewers or for B.I.A.B. (Brew in a Bag) mash / kettle. Manufactured in Melbourne, Australia and exported around the world and a trusted friend of many an Aussie Homebrewer for many years Crown Industries Heavy Duty Hot Water Urn has a large 40 Litre capacity with a concealed element and safety cut off switch set to a higher 150 degrees celsius to avoid element burn out whilst maintaining a healthy robust boil for the homebrewer.
Backed by a generous 2 year warranty and a full range of parts and easy to service yourself or by the manufacturer we can personally stand by the Crown Urn having used one since taking to all grain brewing like a hairy man back when Adam was a boy! Constructed from high quality stainless steel and incorporating adjustable thermostat control and boil dry protection in the element, these urns are suitable for all-grain brewing applications or handy to have as a hot liquor tank for sparge or strike water or use as a kettle.Crown Industries Heavy Duty Hot Water Urn Features include:
- Heavy Duty stainless steel body
- Heavy duty non-drip tap
- Heavy duty concealed heating element
- High temperature resistant handles
- Standard mug fits under tap
- Water level sight tube
- Skirt on lid knob
- Thermostat Control
- High temperature resistant handles
- Boil Dry thermostat on element
- Concealed element
- Model – HW40TC
- Capacity – 200 cups, 40 litres
- Weight – 7kg
- Watts 2400, 220 – 240v
Strainer – Accessory – Crown Industries
$34.95 Incl. GST
Crown Industries Strainer Accessory fits Heavy Duty 30 Litre and 40 Litre Crown Urns and sits over the top of your concealed or unconcealed element to keep your grain and brew in a bag clear of the heating element and prevent burn on or burn holes in your Brew Bag.
Brew In A Bag – BIAB – Grain Bag
$24.95 Incl. GST
Place your crushed or milled grains in this high quality food grade nylon grain bag and then place the bag inside your Kettle or Crown Urn or Mash Tun. BIAG is a great way to learn all grain brewing with a no / low mess approach and fast and easy way to allow you to do single vessel brewing at home.
These Brew In A Bag, grain bags are manufactured from food grade nylon with reinforced seams.
Features include:
- 8 reinforced lifting loops
- Draw string to secure bag to top of pot
- Round flat bottom
- Tapered shape for easy lifting and draining
Dimensions
- 48.5 cm diameter top
- 35 cm diameter bottom
- 70 cm deep/long
Crown Heavy Duty Hot Water Urn 40 Litre Concealed Element
$295.00 Incl. GST
BeerCo Recipe Kit of the Month - Harvest | Saison
$49.50–$55.00 Incl. GST
Harvest | Saison | BeerCo Recipe Kit is a traditional Wallonian harvest ale brewed with Gladfield Pilsner, Munich and Wheat Malts, hopped with US Willamette and GR Hallertauer Mittelfruher and fermented with your choice of either GigaYeast GY018 Saison #1 or #2 Liquid Yeast or Lallemand Danstar Belle Saison Dry Yeast. Refreshing, in balance and true to style this beer is just as thirst quenching for the modern city office worker of today after a hard day on the keyboard and a single speed ride home from work in the burning February sun as it was for the Wallonian farm worker after a hard days work on the scythe at Harvest time! Santé!
Vital Stats:
Batch & Boil- Batch Size: 21.0 L US 5 Gallon
- Boil Time: 90 min
Properties
- OG 1.055
- FG 1.010
- IBU 31
- ABV 6%
- Colour 5 SRM / 3 EBC
- Balance – 0.57
Gladfield Malts
AMOUNT |
FERMENTABLE |
USE |
|---|---|---|
| 2.9 kg | Gladfield Pilsner Malt | Mash |
| 1.9 kg | Gladfield Munich Malt | Mash |
| 0.5 kg | Gladfield Wheat Malt | Mash |
Hops
AMOUNT |
HOP |
TIME |
|---|---|---|
| 50.0 g | Willamette US Hops | 40 min |
| 10.0 g | Hallertauer Mittelfrüher GR Hops | 20 min |
| 10.0 g | Hallertauer Mittelfrüher GR Hops | 10 min |
Yeast
Liquid | GigaYeast
- GY018 Saison #1 GigaYeast (Liquid) 1 x Gold Pitch or
- GY027 Saison #2 GigaYeast (Liquid) 1 x Gold Pitch
Dry | Lallemand Danstar
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Danstar Belle Saison Beer Yeast (Dry) 2 x 11.5 g Sachets
Method:
- Mash – the brewer should do normal mash regime, mashing at 64 C for at least 60 mins
- Sparge – once again the brewer should do normal regime at around 75C
- Boil – vigorous boil for 60-90 mins
- Add Willamette US Hops @40 mins, 10g of Hallertauer Mittelfrüher GR Hops @20mins and 10g of Hallertauer Mittelfrüher GR Hops at 0 mins.
- Yeast & Fermentation – Aerate well and ferment at 23C until FG is reached
- Yeast off, mature for 19 days before carbonating.
Harvest – Saison – BeerCo Recipe Kit
$49.50–$55.00 Incl. GST
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