Small Batch Brewing Amarillo Smash All Grain Brew Day
If you are new to homebrewing or have been into homebrewing for years making small or 5 gallon smash beers can help find out what malts, hops or yeast can bring to a homebrew. What is a smash beer? Smash stands for Single malt single hop. You have a lot of options when making a smash beer. You can use the same grain and keep changing the hops to see what you get. In this first small batch series beer we will be using Rarh 2-row and Amarillo hops. For right now we will keep using the same yeast and that will be US-05.
This will be a 1.25 gallon batch going into the fermenter. Right now we will be using the Mr. Beer fermenter.
BIAB Recipe:
2 LBs 12 oz Rahr 2-Row
.39 oz Amarillo Alpha Acid 10.3% 30 mins
.29 oz Amarillo Alpha Acid 10.3% 5 mins
.32 oz Amarillo Alpha Acid 10.3% Dry Hop 3 days after yeast start
Mash in temp: 150
Boil Time: 60 mins
Yeast: US-05
BeerSmith was used for recipe and numbers
Pre-Boil Gravity 1.040 Mine was 1.035
Post Boil Gravity 1.056 Mine was 1.063
Batch Volume into fermenter 1.25 gallons.