Blue Moon Clone

[IslandLizard]

I know I could use distilled

RO water from dispensing machines (e.g., Walmart, grocery stores), typically runs at $0.39 a gallon.* Bring your own jugs or big bottles to fill.

* That price may have gone up since last time I checked. For reference, distilled water at the Walmart used to be $0.69 for a gallon jug.

 

[dmaxweb]

Thanks for reminding me about looking into water treatment. I know the brewmaster at one of the Craft Breweries in town. I'll find out what they do on the water.

Now, back to my question on uses for US-05/LalBrew New England Ale yeast blend (post #1395)

 

[dmaxweb]

RO water from dispensing machines (e.g., Walmart, grocery stores), typically runs at $0.39 a gallon.* Bring your own jugs or big bottles to fill.

* That price may have gone up since last time I checked. For reference, distilled water at the Walmart used to be $0.69 for a gallon jug.

I recently bought a gallon jug of distilled water for the car radiator. $1.16

 

[dmaxweb]

I recently bought a gallon jug of distilled water for the car radiator. $1.16

Since distilled water is sterile, I keep a jug on hand for harvesting yeast slurry.

 

[CleanEmUpIves]

Thanks for reminding me about looking into water treatment. I know the brewmaster at one of the Craft Breweries in town. I'll find out what they do on the water.

Now, back to my question on uses for US-05/LalBrew New England Ale yeast blend (post #1395)

Depends which yeast dominates. An IPA may be appropriate... with the 5.2 pH Stabilizer from the last batch it might turn out a tad salty...

 

[dmaxweb]

I'm thinking about a kolsch grain bill with some of this US-05/LalBrew New England blend yeast harvested from a Blue Moon clone.

 

[dmaxweb]

CaptainL

I think you water profile will be ok.

I just tried my #4 recipe, the first I adjusted my water, and it tastes awesome!

No much changes, boiled 1/2lb oats for 15min and changed the orange and coriander a bit. See below.

4# white wheat malt
5# 2 row malt
2# crystal 10
1/2# carapils

Mashed at 158 for 60min.
Mash ph at 5.27
Sparge ph at 6.5

Boiled 1/2# oats for last 15min
1oz hallertauer for 60min
3/8oz coriander for 10min
2oz sweet orange peels for 10min
1oz curacao orange peels for 10min

OG=1.049
FG=1.012
ABV%=4.8
SRM=6
IBU=13

Water profile
Ca=58
Mg=12
Na=2
Cl=93
SO4=50
Cl/SO4=1.86=malty
RA=-29

Wow, too many variables. We are getting too technical

Used yeast SO4 at 67F. FG was reached in 5 days. Bottled in 7 days.

This post is over 10 years old. Is this still a recommended water profile?

 

[balrog]

This post is over 10 years old. Is this still a recommended water profile?

He's not been seen in over a year. His #12 was the one I settled on, but his water profile of roughly 50:100:50 Ca:Cl:SO4 seems odd for a light beer not accentuating malt. I typically go 50:50:50 on this.

 

[TwogunRocky]

Read the entire fantastic thread, and bottling this tonight

Only change I made was using CF182(Opus) as a dry hop, meant to give great orange taste & florals.... just an experiment.

The US-05 did a better than expected job, so took it down a bit further than I'd have liked but see how it tastes around Christmas

 

[nilo]

This post is over 10 years old. Is this still a recommended water profile?

https://beertech.blogspot.com/2013/05/blue-moon-clone-12.html?m=1

 

[Wayne1]

Many things have change since I first replied to this thread in 2008.

Dr. Keith Villa has retired from Coors and started his own company Ceria, which make a NA version and has released a cannabis infused variation.

I retired from probrewing 6 years ago, but I was drawn back into it. I am now Brewmaster at Littleton Brewing Company, which is scheduled to open March 15, 2025.

I will be offering a tribute to Blue Moon. I refer to it as a Spiced White Ale. The powered orange peel I used to use is no longer available. I was introduced to a frozen Valencia orange peel from the same distributor. I am using preground coriander seed. The amount of the spices have changed a bit with more orange peel and less coriander. I am using all Root Shoot grains. The yeast is US-05.

If anyone is in the Denver metro area, please come on out to the southern suburbs and check out the brewery and let me know what you think about this white ale.

Cheers,
Wayne