Blonde Ale Centennial Blonde (Simple 4% All Grain, 5 & 10 Gall)

[kjones]

I am gonna do this again as a 2.5 gallon biab no sparge mash. I have uped the grain amounts some (guessing) due to the lack of a sparge.

I have:
4# 2 row
6oz 10L
4oz vienna
6oz carapils

i plan to add the whole pre-boil volume of water in for the mash plus .1 gallon per # grain absorbtion. would this be right?

thanks

 

[iowaherkeye]

So, I'd been missing a coupler for my wort chiller,which I now have, and have the next few days off. Today I shall brew.

I'm having some reservations with the dextrine malt. I'm told if you steep it by itself, it may add body and a nice head, but the starches will make it cloudy. Will isinglass help this? Or should I use maltodextrin? I know it isn't an equivalent. Or should I just skip the dextrine altogether?

Thanks.

 

[mountainman13]

Just blazed through 10 gallons of this at a buddies party last night

 

[brew2enjoy]

this will officially be my next batch. just placed my order for the ingredients! Can't wait to brew this one up! I am going to give the S-04 a shot and try to keep it in the low 60's

 

[iowaherkeye]

Just got done!

My OG ended up being 1.051. I used 6# Northern Brewer Organic LME with a # of carapils. I started with a six gallon boil and ended up about 8oz from the target 5 gallons. Used Nottingham and pitched at 68 degrees. Put it in the swamp cooler, which was at 64.

Anybody know why my OG was so far off? I feel since I used .6# less malt I could boil 1/2 gallon less water as well, and still roughly hit the target.

Oh well, other than the crappy leaky wort chiller spraying ~a teaspoon of water into the wort, I suppose it was a good day. I'm excited to see how the Montueka turns out

 

[midfielder5]

Just got done!
My OG ended up being 1.051. I used 6# Northern Brewer Organic LME with a # of carapils. Anybody know why my OG was so far off?

6# of LME will get you 5 gallons of 1.052 beer.

 

[brew2enjoy]

I have seen it asked but not answered. What is a good water profile to use?

 

[Vomtaylor]

I just racked this beer... going to keg it next monday to drink on Sat (Jan 14th) Tasted great at this point.. young, flat and warm.. haha. At any rate I used WL Nottingham (Platinum yeast) and crystal 20 b/c the brew store was out of 10. Ill post a follow up with a photo for color when its glassed.

Thanks for the good recipe

 

[Vomtaylor]

I have seen it asked but not answered. What is a good water profile to use?

i used 1.33

 

[Clifton]

6# of LME will get you 5 gallons of 1.052 beer.

I have to disagree. My quick math says it'll yield 1.043 and Brewtarget says 1.042. OTOH, 6# of DME will yield around 1.052.

 

[midfielder5]

weird. Good catch. There may have been an error in the hopville calculator for the LME ingredient I randomly picked.

 

[iowaherkeye]

I have to disagree. My quick math says it'll yield 1.043 and Brewtarget says 1.042. OTOH, 6# of DME will yield around 1.052.

Yeah, on the last page someone told me 1# DME = 1.1# LME. With that, my 6# LME needed the water to be scaled down a bit. I just dunno why I'm so far off target. . .

BTW, after 4 hours 45 mins the fermentor is bubbling (only every 38 seconds).

I only did the carapils for 30" between 150-160, closer to 160--that's the only thing that could buid the body that high, yes? But I'd imagine that's standard steeping times and temps.

 

[suicider]

i'm drinking this one two weeks after bottling.does this seem a little hoppy to be a blonde or is some subtle hop character appropriate for the style? i only ask cuz i entered it in a competition under the blonde ale category.

 

[kjones]

just finished this one up. hit 1.040. all is well. got it in the cube, prob. pitch yeast tuesday or so. man i love no chill.

 

[Big-J2000]

Brewed up a partial boil recipe I found on an earlier post for the in-laws, and it was a hit! I do have one question. I used 4oz of corn sugar to carbonate and bottled on 12/12/11 and I'm getting bottles where some are carbonated just fine and others are coming out flat. Any ideas?? I used in 12oz & 22oz bottles, where I'm getting better results with the 12's.

 

[mountainman13]

Bigger bottles will take more time

 

[cruizer8]

Why would bigger bottles take more time? If there is the same amount of headspace shouldn't it be the same? I would think the mixture of sugar and yeast would be consistent so it shouldn't matter. But I may be thinking about it wrong.

 

[HokieBrewer]

More liquid needs to absorb CO2 (maybe?)

 

[alestateyall]

Brewed up a partial boil recipe I found on an earlier post for the in-laws, and it was a hit! I do have one question. I used 4oz of corn sugar to carbonate and bottled on 12/12/11 and I'm getting bottles where some are carbonated just fine and others are coming out flat. Any ideas?? I used in 12oz & 22oz bottles, where I'm getting better results with the 12's.

Wait a few more weeks. My beers take longer to carb in the winter because my closet (where I store conditioning beers) is quite a bit cooler than summer/spring.

 

[Clifton]

Boiling an extract version right now. 4.3 lbs. DME and 8 oz. Lt. Carastan.

 

[ZBrewski]

Has anyone aged this recipe? I'm assuming you would just loose some hop flavor/bitterness.

I have two kegs that will be about 3 months old when they are tapped(full pipeline)

 

[Guidry]

I do have one question. I used 4oz of corn sugar to carbonate and bottled ......, I used in 12oz & 22oz bottles, where I'm getting better results with the 12's.

That's weird. When I bottle, I usually have a better result in the 16/22oz bottles. I always contributed this to shooting for the low carb content on my part ant the greater liquid volume producing a little more carbonation.

 

[Guidry]

Has anyone aged this recipe?

Are you kidding? Taste this brew after a few weeks and tell me who has the self discipline to age it? It screams "Drink me now!" Ya know, like when the lady says now or.....Well you know!

 

[tdogg]

I made this beer with motueka hops and brought it to a friends cabin this weekend. It was a huge hit! I got a ton of compliments, even from the guys that are more into BMC. I will definitely be making this again, probably with the recommended hops this time.

 

[Gear101]

thinking about putting mine in the garage tomorrow for three or four days to cold crash it.. then to the bottle..

 

[csoult]

Did this for my first beer ever turned out great!!! Everyone loved it, kegged it and bottled a 6 pack after a couple hours the only thing left were the bottles and I drank them while brewing my next beer. Thanks for a great first beer!

 

[Vomtaylor]

just kegged my batch this morning... pretty tasty.. Im serving it at a party this Sat.

 

[gkal1964]

Brewed up a partial boil recipe I found on an earlier post for the in-laws, and it was a hit! I do have one question. I used 4oz of corn sugar to carbonate and bottled on 12/12/11 and I'm getting bottles where some are carbonated just fine and others are coming out flat. Any ideas?? I used in 12oz & 22oz bottles, where I'm getting better results with the 12's.

Make sure you mix the priming sugar well into the wort without oxygenating it. When I used to bottle I noticed this same problem when I did not swirl the wort and priming sugar very lightly with the racking cane to combine when in the bottling bucket. This could be your problem.

 

[Danbreeze]

Thank you Biemuncher for this recipe. I have made it 6 times in the last year, and every person I know who usually drinks BMC and has tried it always asks "You got any more of that blonde beer left?"

Keeps them away from the good stuff

 

[9Frogs]

First attempt at AG, seemed to be an epic failure. Temps all over the place. BIAB not working for me. Sparge water temp off. Did what I could as I went along (think...Titanic....). OG way low. Picked up a pound of DME for the hell of it. Sample tasted pretty astringent, figured I messed it up, but fermented it anyway for the hell of it. Tasted a sample later to do FG....Actually tasted pretty damn good! Bottled it, and am waiting on it. Whan I want to pull a second sample to try warm and flat, it's a good sign. Now, the mastun and braid are finished, many AG videos watched, so am planning on re-brewing to see how that compares. I knew I should have just bought that 20 pound bag of grain........