CidahMastah
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Very cool. I think I will be picking some of the hops this week or maybe next... I am watching them closely!
Wanted to tel you, the sam summer you made was very different than mine was. I thought it was me so I let the wife try it too. Some differences we noticed was that it didn't have a strong malt backbone like mine did. It nose was sweet and lemony. I could really taste the lemon in yours on the front end, and then it was sort of sweet in the middle, then spicey from the grains of paradise on the finish. What recipe did you use for this one? I know this was a rebrew for you but I think your hop schedule was might be what was different.
My version seemed to have a better balance with three prominent flavors, wheat malty flavor, lemon and grains of paradise. There was a prominent malty backbone I didn't get from yours, like a nice wheat flavor that would make you think... yup this is a wheat beer haha. Sounds dumb but true. I tasted the malty backbone up front, with a citrus and spicy finish. The nose wasn't sweet, it was wheaty and citrus.
So a couple questions:
1. What was your mash temp?
2. What was your hops schedule? - I think our grain bills were very similar, if not the same.
3. What yeast did you use.
4. did you do a 90 minute boil?
I assume you used fresh lemon peel. I didn't crush my grains of paradise in the boil (they went in whole).
Here is the recipe I created from the stuff I read out there:
11G batch @ 75% efficiency; 1.051 OG
10lbs pils
7 lbs wheat malt
2lbs flaked wheat
1lbs carapils
tett 89g 4.7% aa (60min)
2oz lemon zest (15min)
hallertau hers 40g 3% (5min)
tett 60g 4.7% (5min)
4g grains of paradise (5min)
WLP 051 California V Ale Yeast (wyeast 1272 American Ale YeastII)
152F mash
So many questions jsut because they really do taste quite different. Guess it really shows that the hops, etc. really impact the brew
Wanted to tel you, the sam summer you made was very different than mine was. I thought it was me so I let the wife try it too. Some differences we noticed was that it didn't have a strong malt backbone like mine did. It nose was sweet and lemony. I could really taste the lemon in yours on the front end, and then it was sort of sweet in the middle, then spicey from the grains of paradise on the finish. What recipe did you use for this one? I know this was a rebrew for you but I think your hop schedule was might be what was different.
My version seemed to have a better balance with three prominent flavors, wheat malty flavor, lemon and grains of paradise. There was a prominent malty backbone I didn't get from yours, like a nice wheat flavor that would make you think... yup this is a wheat beer haha. Sounds dumb but true. I tasted the malty backbone up front, with a citrus and spicy finish. The nose wasn't sweet, it was wheaty and citrus.
So a couple questions:
1. What was your mash temp?
2. What was your hops schedule? - I think our grain bills were very similar, if not the same.
3. What yeast did you use.
4. did you do a 90 minute boil?
I assume you used fresh lemon peel. I didn't crush my grains of paradise in the boil (they went in whole).
Here is the recipe I created from the stuff I read out there:
11G batch @ 75% efficiency; 1.051 OG
10lbs pils
7 lbs wheat malt
2lbs flaked wheat
1lbs carapils
tett 89g 4.7% aa (60min)
2oz lemon zest (15min)
hallertau hers 40g 3% (5min)
tett 60g 4.7% (5min)
4g grains of paradise (5min)
WLP 051 California V Ale Yeast (wyeast 1272 American Ale YeastII)
152F mash
So many questions jsut because they really do taste quite different. Guess it really shows that the hops, etc. really impact the brew