 | Guava Lava |
| Where to find it: | King Arthur Hotel, Reynoldston: coming soon. Brewery taproom: see our Opening times! |
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| Batch: | #41 |
| Brew date: | Nov 18th 2024 |
| Style: | NEIPA |
| ABV: | 6.6% |
| Malts: | Extra Pale, Oats, Dextrin, Wheat, Acidulated |
| Hops: | Admiral, Olicana (dip hop and dry hop) |
| Yeast: | Mango Madness |
On a Charles Faram hop academy visit, Rhys from BeerRiff says: "making a beer with the Olicana T45 pellets would be fun". He wasn't wrong!
Admiral is here for bittering and a little lemoniness, but the Olicana is doing the heavy flavour and aroma work, pushing guava especially, along with some orange and other tropical fruit notes.
Used a technique called "dip hopping" here - extracting oils from the Olicana hops in the fermenter before the yeast goes in and has fun doing some biotransformation during fermentation. Then it gets dry-hopped with the same amount when fermentation is complete.
This is the third batch of this recipe with a key modification. In the first two batches WHC's Saturated yeast did a great job. But for this batch, their Mango Madness thermotolerant strain got busy at over 30c 😮
Check out Charles Faram's Hop Chronicle PDF if you want to know more about Olicana:
Olicana® made its commercial debut in 2014. It is a sister
of Jester® and a daughter of Cascade. Olicana® is also
available processed as a T45 pellet.
The delicate fruity aromatics of Olicana® are most
apparent when used as a dry hop or in lighter bodied
beers. The T45 pellets provide a greater concentration of
it's flavour characteristics allowing it to shine in more
robust brews.