Fresh Hop Ale (Sunnycroft Clone)

Fresh Hop Ale
(5 gallons)
9/19/2014

10.0 lbs chateau pale ale
0.5 lbs brown malt
1.0 lbs crystal 10
0.5 lbs carapils

fresh hops

yeast:
S-05

1.050 OG on 9/19
1.012 secondary on 9/25
1.012 keg on 10/2

Hop Harvest 2014

Harvested on 9/18/2014.

1 lb 11 oz in total

Mostly Fuggles.  Harvested a week or two later than I should have, 25% of the cones were gone by.  Deer damage this year to a number of the varieties.

Black Magic Dark Mild

5 gallon extract (Northern Brewer)

1 lb English Cara
0.5 lbs Pale Chocolate

3.5 lbs Maris Otter LME
2 lbs Muntons Light DME

1 oz UK First Gold (AA 6.4%) (60 min.)
0.5 oz Kent Goldings (AA 6.47%) (5 min.)
05. oz Kent Goldings (AA 6.47%) Dry hopped in secondary

WLP002 Englis Ale

Pitched: 9/16/14 SG 1.040
Secondary: 9/27/14 SG 1.013
Kegged: 10/8/14 SG 1.013

Notes: I'm really not all that sure about the significance of the style description -- mild, certainly, and thus a perfect on-tap-at-home brew, but the colour is not notably dark compared to, say, a porter.

Fresh Hop Ale

Sunnycroft 2014 hop harvest weighed about 8 oz when mostly. Picked on 9/2/2014, but
probably should have picked a week earlier.
Dried in barn for 2 days before weighing and brewing.

Grain:
     Rahr Premium Pilsner     10
     Brown malt                     1/2
     Briess Caramel 10L           1
     Briess Carapils                1/2

Hops Sunnycroft:
     4 oz 60 min
     1 oz 30 min
     1 oz 15 min
     1 oz   1 min

Safale S05
 
Brewed 9/4/2014     OG 1064
Secondary 9/13/2014      1014
Primed with 3.5 oz sugar in 2 cups water, kegged 9/25/2014   1008