What do the learned think of this

[David Wood]

Type: All Grain
Date: 25/10/2009
Batch Size: 23.00 L
Boil Size: 33.28 Lr:
Boil Time: 75 min
Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
6.50 kg .Pale Malt, Aussie (3.3 EBC) Grain 89.04 %
0.40 kg Cara-Pils/Dextrine (3.9 EBC) Grain 5.48 %
0.40 kg Caramel Malt - 40L (78.8 EBC) Grain 5.48 %
25.00 gm .Styrian Goldings, NZ [5.50 %] (Dry Hop 6 days) Hops -
50.00 gm Unknown [5.00 %] (Dry Hop 6 days) Hops -
10.00 gm Pacific Gem [14.40 %] (60 min) Hops 14.1 IBU
8.00 gm .Super Alpha [10.70 %] (30 min) Hops 6.4 IBU
8.00 gm Nelson Sauvin [11.40 %] (30 min) Hops 6.9 IBU
25.00 gm .Styrian Goldings, NZ [5.50 %] (30 min) Hops 10.3 IBU
50.00 gm Cascade [5.80 %] (15 min) Hops 14.1 IBU
20.00 gm Pacific Gem [14.40 %] (15 min) Hops 14.0 IBU
50.00 gm Cascade [5.80 %] (1 min) Hops 1.2 IBU
25.00 gm .Motueka [7.80 %] (1 min) Hops 0.8 IBU
25.00 gm .Motueka [7.80 %] (Dry Hop 6 days) Hops -
20.00 gm Pacific Gem [14.40 %] (Dry Hop 6 days) Hops -
1 Pkgs Safale (DCA Yeast #S-05) Yeast-Ale



Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.073 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.070 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.021 SG Measured Final Gravity:
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.79 %

[Stu McKinlay]

I've never really got that supposed berry character off PGem. I think Emerson's London Porter and Invercargill Pitch Black both use it but if a beer is not unusually hopped it is pretty unlikely you'll catch much of anything other than bitterness from 60min addition.

Perhaps original is dry hopped with PGem? My DB boycott is coming up close to a year now - so no Monteith's Original for me to test that theory (I did break the boycott for momentarily for Steve Baker's Poneke Pale Ale... and it was worth it).

[denimglen]

Montieth's dry hop? Didn't think they'd know how to add hops other than at the start of the boil ;-)

[Dale]

Used to love Montieths Original hate it now but then I was down the West Coast couple months back and had Original from Tap and that was Dry Hopped and a good tasting beer asked the bartender and it was brewed in the old site in Greymouth by the looks with the old recipe....

[Reviled]

So do they just brew onsite for their bar? And all the crap in supermarkets is brewing in AKL??

[HerrSchnapps]

I think they brew onsite for supplying kegs to pubs from what I've heard.

[Dale]

Yip kegs for the pubs not sure if any of the kegs leave the west coast.