All Citra Blonde Ale - Viewer Submitted Recipe - Tasting and Feedback

This week we review a beer made from a viewer submitted recipe. Its an all Citra Blonde Ale.
The goal with this recipe was to get all the goodness of Citra into a beer without having to purchase commercial styles at 7-8% ABV. The viewer submitted recipe wanted to focus on a lower ABV way to enjoy the flavors of Citra.
This beer certainly delivered great notes of citrus. Primarily candied lemon peel and apricot dominated the presentation. The hopping here was entirely in the kettle or fermentor so no oxidation with a traditional dry hop. And you wouldn't miss the dry hop either. Plenty of hop nose on this one.
Tell us about your Citra experiences in the comments. Here's the recipe:
GRAINS
3.35 kg - 7.4 pounds of Floor Malted Maris Otter Malt (88.2% of bill)
200 g - 7 ounces of Torrefied Wheat 5 EBC (5.3% of bill)
150 g - 5.3 ounces of Acidulated Malt (4% of bill)
100 g - 3.5 ounces of Carafoam (2.6% of bill)
HOPS
20 g of Citra hops at 10 minutes to go in the boil - (12.5% AA)
20 g of Citra hops (12.5% AA) at 5 minutes to go in the boil
60 g of Citra hops (12.5% AA) for 20 minute hop stand at 80° C (176° F)
YEAST
1 packet of Fermentis SafAle US-05 American Ale Dry Yeast
INSTRUCTIONS
Mashed at 67 °C (152° F) for 60 minutes
Fermented at 22°C (72° F) for 7 days
Cold Crashed at 2 °C (35° F) for 3 days
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[@MRW3455]

Cheers dudes, thanks for brewng my beer. Completely right about the fermentation fubar, i toyed with using Kveik but then switched back to SO5 and didn't change the recipe temperature. Glad you enjoyed it though. Mark from the UK 😁

[@foleyu2]

Something about you guys......its like the homebrew culture of yester-year. Love it. And the dodgy basement / room.

[@pattonmoore]

Great video guys. If you exchange the Citra with Cascade hops I have brewed a very similar beer. My totally prejudiced opinion of it was similar to Mike's on this one. Cheers!

[@davidhall158]

Great commentary

[@foota20]

Great video as usual - where can I source the recipe for this one? (Metric is fine!)

[@MRW3455]

Here you go mate
Citronde
British Golden Ale
4.1% / 9.6 °P
All Grain
GF BIAB 23L - 30min
75.4% efficiency
Batch Volume: 23 L
Boil Time: 30 min
Mash Water: 28.59 L
Total Water: 28.59 L
Boil Volume: 26.85 L
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.036
Vitals
Original Gravity: 1.038
Final Gravity: 1.007
IBU (Tinseth): 37
BU/GU: 0.95
Colour: 7.7 EBC
Mash
Temperature - 67 °C - 60 min
Malts (3.75 kg)
3.3 kg (88%) - Crisp No19 Floor Malted Maris Otter Malt - Grain - 6.2 EBC
200 g (5.3%) - Crisp Torrefied Wheat - Grain - 5 EBC
150 g (4%) - Weyermann Acidulated - Grain - 6 EBC
100 g (2.7%) - Weyermann Carapils/Carafoam - Grain - 4.5 EBC
Hops (120 g)
20 g (13 IBU) - Citra (Whole) 12.5% - Boil - 10 min
20 g (9 IBU) - Citra (Whole) 12.5% - Boil - 5 min
80 g (15 IBU) - Citra (Whole) 12.5% - Aroma - 20 min hopstand
Hopstand at 80 °C
Miscs
1 g - Baking Soda (NaHCO3) - Mash
2.6 g - Calcium Chloride (CaCl2) - Mash
1.4 g - Epsom Salt (MgSO4) - Mash
6 g - Gypsum (CaSO4) - Mash
Yeast
1pkg - US05
Fermentation
Primary - 22 °C - 7 days
Cold Crash - 2 °C - 3 days
Carbonation: 2 CO2-vol
Water Profile
Ca2+
75
Mg2+
5
Na+
18
Cl-
48
SO42-
137
HCO3-
41

[@keithpoolehomecoffeeroasti489]

Maybe I missed it but what were the calculated IBUs?

[@tylerb6081]

What's up with the hot ferment of US-05?

[@ElaborateTrolling]

recipe was written for kviek, the yeast was changed, the written temperature was also changed, just not in the written recipe.