Plutselig Jul Recipe (20 L)

A 20 L American Amber Ale with caramel malt, American hops and an optional Christmas-spice twist.

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This Plutselig Jul recipe is a 20 L American Amber Ale with a deep amber character, caramel malt and a balanced mix of Columbus, Simcoe and Cascade.

For a more festive version, you can add 10 g of cardamom, nutmeg or cinnamon during the final 10 minutes of the boil.

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Ølbrygging AS

Plutselig Jul

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Batch: 20 L
Ingredients Equipment Method Video Notes

Ingredients
  

Malt Bill
  • 4 kg Viking Malt Pale Ale 2-Row 73.4%
  • 0.8 kg BestMalz Red X 14.7%
  • 0.4 kg Simpsons Imperial Malt 7.3%
  • 0.25 kg Simpsons Crystal Dark 4.6%
Hops
  • 10 g Columbus (Tomahawk) 14% AA · Boil · 60 min
  • 25 g Simcoe 13% AA · Boil · 10 min
  • 40 g Cascade 5.5% AA · Boil · 5 min
Yeast
  • 2 pkg Lallemand (LalBrew) Nottingham Yeast Dry · 17–22 °C
Other Additions
  • 0.5 items Protafloc Boil · 15 min
  • 0.5 tsp Yeast Nutrients Boil · 15 min
  • 10 g OPTIONAL: Cardamom, Nutmeg OR Cinnamon Boil · 10 min
Water
  • 18.22 L Mash water
  • 11.02 L Sparge water

Equipment

  • Grainfather G30

Method
 

Mash
  1. Mash at 68 °C for 60 minutes.
  2. Mashout at 78 °C for 15 minutes.
  3. Sparge with 11.02 L of water. Target pre-boil volume is approximately 25.92 L.
Boil
  1. Boil for 60 minutes.
  2. At the start of the boil, add 10 g Columbus (Tomahawk).
  3. With 15 minutes remaining, add 0.5 items Protafloc and 0.5 tsp Yeast Nutrients.
  4. With 10 minutes remaining, add 25 g Simcoe and optional spices if you choose to.
  5. With 5 minutes remaining, add 40 g Cascade.
Fermentation
  1. Primary at 18 °C for 14 days.

Video

Notes

Brew Specs
  • Batch Size: 20 L
  • OG: 1.060
  • FG: 1.016
  • ABV: 5.8%
  • IBU: 33
  • Color: 27 EBC
  • Carbonation: 2.3 vol CO₂

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About This Recipe

Plutselig Jul is an American Amber Ale recipe from Ølbrygging AS, built around Pale Ale malt with Red X, Imperial Malt and Crystal Dark for color and malt character.

Columbus, Simcoe and Cascade provide the hop character without turning it into a hop-heavy beer. The optional spice addition gives you an easy way to push it a little further toward Christmas without changing the base recipe.

Brewing Notes

I first brewed this as batch #31 on my Grainfather G30.

The recipe targets an OG of 1.060 and FG of 1.016, for about 5.8% ABV. My batch came in at 1.065 and finished at 1.018, giving me 6.2% ABV.

The recipe card above keeps the original recipe targets rather than replacing them with the results from this individual brew.

Want to see how this recipe behaved on brew day? Read my full brew day notes from batch #31.

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