wort_bear
Member
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2014
- Messages
- 5
- Reaction score
- 0
- Recipe Type
- All Grain
- Yeast
- S-04
- Batch Size (Gallons)
- 5.5
- Original Gravity
- 1.054
- Final Gravity
- 1.015
- Boiling Time (Minutes)
- 60
- IBU
- 33
- Color
- 6
- Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
- 1 week, starting at 62 and raising slowly to 70 degrees
- Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
- condition for 2 more weeks
- Tasting Notes
- Very balanced drinkable beer with biscuity malt, fruity esters, and spice/resin hops
4 lb Vienna 43.2%
4 lb Pale 2-Row 43.2%
8 oz Victory 5.4%
8 oz Wheat Malt 5.4%
4 oz Acidulated Malt 2.7%
9.13 lb Total
154 degree single-infusion, 75 minutes (in my mash tun, the temp has dropped 3 degrees by the end)
Hops
0.5 oz Northern Brewer - First Wort
0.5 oz Northern Brewer - 15 min
0.5 oz Northern Brewer - Whirlpool 0 min
1 oz Willamette Whirlpool 0 min
70 mg/l Ca+ 9 Mg+ 44 Na+ 84 CL+ 121 S04-
Not a traditional recipe, frankly it's not to style, but it won its category against 23 other English Pale Ales (son of brewzilla competition, 2014). This recipe started from a Vienna / Northern Brewer SMaSH. I like crystal malts, but my palate gets tired of them quickly. This is a nice alternative, more refreshing, it's becoming my house beer. The S-04 keeps the body high and gives lovely fruity esters if you keep the temperature low at first. (I tried this with nottingham, but it finished too dry and stripped the hop flavor).
pH came out to 5.1, lower than I intended, but perhaps that's part of what makes it drinkable. I might play with that the next time around. The balance of the beer is excellent but it may be worth trying some malts from different countries, see what works best.
4 lb Pale 2-Row 43.2%
8 oz Victory 5.4%
8 oz Wheat Malt 5.4%
4 oz Acidulated Malt 2.7%
9.13 lb Total
154 degree single-infusion, 75 minutes (in my mash tun, the temp has dropped 3 degrees by the end)
Hops
0.5 oz Northern Brewer - First Wort
0.5 oz Northern Brewer - 15 min
0.5 oz Northern Brewer - Whirlpool 0 min
1 oz Willamette Whirlpool 0 min
70 mg/l Ca+ 9 Mg+ 44 Na+ 84 CL+ 121 S04-
Not a traditional recipe, frankly it's not to style, but it won its category against 23 other English Pale Ales (son of brewzilla competition, 2014). This recipe started from a Vienna / Northern Brewer SMaSH. I like crystal malts, but my palate gets tired of them quickly. This is a nice alternative, more refreshing, it's becoming my house beer. The S-04 keeps the body high and gives lovely fruity esters if you keep the temperature low at first. (I tried this with nottingham, but it finished too dry and stripped the hop flavor).
pH came out to 5.1, lower than I intended, but perhaps that's part of what makes it drinkable. I might play with that the next time around. The balance of the beer is excellent but it may be worth trying some malts from different countries, see what works best.
