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Fortunately BrewDog have given us a lot of information in various locations about Cocoa Psycho, making our job a lot easier. On this page they say that roasted grains make up 23% of the grist, while on this page they give us the vitals:
- Grist: Extra Pale, Wheat, Dark Crystal, Smoked, Black, Roasted Barley
- Hops: Cascade to 85 IBU
- SG: 1.098
I don't think there is any Cascade character present so I plan on bittering with hop extract or Magnum. Yeast is not specified but I think a neutral yeast like US-05 or WLP-001 would be appropriate, however US-05 does not attenuate enough to make the final numbers work. Chris White was right when he said liquid and dried yeasts are not the same! Phil said he can pick out the crystal malt clearly, but again I'm not so sure: if I hadn't been told it was there I probably wouldn't notice.
The recipe I've devised for a 19 litre clone brew going on the information given is:
Amount | Item | Type | % or IBU |
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5.90 kg | Pale Malt (2 Row) MCI (5.9 EBC) | Grain | 66.67 % |
1.00 kg | Black (Patent) Malt (985.0 EBC) | Grain | 11.30 % |
1.00 kg | Roasted Barley (591.0 EBC) | Grain | 11.30 % |
0.50 kg | Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (157.6 EBC) | Grain | 5.65 % |
0.25 kg | Smoked Malt (17.7 EBC) | Grain | 2.82 % |
0.20 kg | White Wheat Malt (4.7 EBC) | Grain | 2.26 % |
19.00 gm | Hop Extract [51.00 %] (60 min) | Hops | 85.4 IBU |
1 Pkgs | California Ale (White Labs #WLP001) | Yeast-Ale |
Est Original Gravity: 1.098 SG Est Final Gravity: 1.021 SG Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 10.06 Bitterness: 85.4 IBU Est Color: 172.7 EBC |
Unfortunately I'm all out of black malt but Mark said he'll sort me out with some, so this should make for an interesting brew, but we've all agreed it will take time to mature, so I won't have an update on this one for 2 months or more.
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Update 07/07/15
Brewed this today in 10 litre batch which is a departure for me, but turned out to be a lot easier than doing a 20 litre as I have lots of smaller pots etc and a 3kw gas ring can boil ~12 litres a lot quicker and easier than it can ~22 litres. I missed my targets slightly probably by over estimating boil-off. Resultant wort is 1.090