Classifying a SMaSH

[klyph]

What style of beer would you say my first all grain is?

10 lbs domestic 2-row
Yakima Golding Hops
1.33 oz. @ 60 min.
1.33 oz @ 10 min.
1.33 oz @ flameout
O.G. 1.053
6 gallons

Hop bitterness is pretty strong, maybe a tad too much. It's shy of an IPA by a longshot, but doesn't quite fit a pale ale.

I know it's impossible to say without tasting/seeing but I'm buzzing nicely off this, from both the alcohol and the pride of all grain homebrew :rockin:

What say ye?

 

[eggbeater59]

you'll need to know the ibu per oz for your hops to calculate the total ibu of the beer/put it in a style category.

 

[Brewsmith]

How is it not a pale ale? It's hopped like one. It might be very light in color for the style, but I say it fits. It's probably to bitter and hop forward for a blonde ale. If we really need to parse words, I'd call it an Extra Pale Ale

 

[impatient]

Why not a Double Golden Ale

 

[klyph]

It's a really good beer, but it has a very slight band aid flavor in the aftertaste. Is this because I fermented around 68-70F? Or is that caused by something else?

 

[mmb]

Bandaid makes me think plastic and that gets into phenols and clorphenols from fermentation, water profile, yeast esters and possibly from not rinsing the fermentation vessel of cleaning solution...

That's all I've got...

*shrug*

 

[klyph]

My untrained palette probably can't describe it very well. Could be from too hot a fermentation, or the fact that it's a young beer and hasn't cleared out much.

 

[maskednegator]

chloramines in tap water is my guess.

 

[Denny]

What style of beer would you say my first all grain is?

What was the yeast?

 

[klyph]

Harvested Wyeast London Ale from a previous batch of Imperial IPA

 

[mmb]

That might be the cause of the off flavors right there... Harvesting yeast from a batch as stressful as an IIPA normally isn't a good idea. The yeast are coated in hop oil and have had to work in a high IBU/high alcohol solution, stressing them out.

Normally, one harvests from a lower IBU/ABV batch and climbs the ladder to a higher IBU/ABV batch.