Chris's Pub Ale - Monday, July 16, 2018 - ( Golden Ale )
Carboys
Using Canadian English malt for the first time. No specialty malts this time ( 2.5 ozs. UK Choc for some srm ) as this is supposed to have lots of flavour on its own. It is also quite dark all by itself. We will see...
Ingredients
21 lbs. OiO English Pale Malt
2 lbs. Carafoam
2.5 ozs. UK Choc
56.70 g Challenger - 7.8 % AA @ 60 min.
10 g Target - 7.3 % AA @ 60 min.
8 g Target - 7.3% AA @ 30 min.
Nottingham ( 4 )
I couldn't get the wort down past 70 F as it is very hot out and has been for 3 weeks now. Tossed the carboys in the fridge to cool down for a few hours. Still took awhile to even do that. Yeast pitched at 6:45 pm. Wort was dark and bland, as in no biscuit or goofy flavours. I want that. Not a lot of hop bitterness so far, but of course it was sweet. Specs ( OiO ) say the colour is 2 L. Closer to 4 in my opinion, but it doesn't matter as I seem to have way more luck brewing darker beers than lighter ones.
O.G. - 1.046
F.G. - 1.008
% - 5
SRM - 5.8
BU - 31.6
NOTES
One carboy is doing good next am, other one is not. Still have to monitor the temp as the strips and controler are not the same temp. Going good on day 3/4. Smells great, glad I didn't muddle it up with specialty grains. I did learn not to use specialty grains with British malt. ( No biscuit malt, ever again ). Canadian/American? Maybe some Carahell, but 4 - 5% only at first. Sampled a cup of it and it was bland and very green. Not much taste, but no off flavours that I could tell. Keg on Fri July 27 and add gelatin on July 28.
UPDATE - AUG 16
After some research I discovered if I use Target hops late in the boil, I will get a weedy taste. That explains everything now. God, I never knew that. No more experimenting with unfamiliar hops and malt. Stay traditional!!! still not 100% sure it was the target hops. I only used 8 g late in the boil and the rest was at 60 min. It has to be this malt. Stale? Just crappy malt? Me? If I did something wrong, I sure as hell don't know what I did. No more bitters until I can afford some beer gas.
TOSSED OUT
This is astrigent as of Aug 29. I don't have a record of my water profile as I didn't keep it. Now to keg the next bitter. Will know soon.
Using Canadian English malt for the first time. No specialty malts this time ( 2.5 ozs. UK Choc for some srm ) as this is supposed to have lots of flavour on its own. It is also quite dark all by itself. We will see...
Ingredients
21 lbs. OiO English Pale Malt
2 lbs. Carafoam
2.5 ozs. UK Choc
56.70 g Challenger - 7.8 % AA @ 60 min.
10 g Target - 7.3 % AA @ 60 min.
8 g Target - 7.3% AA @ 30 min.
Nottingham ( 4 )
I couldn't get the wort down past 70 F as it is very hot out and has been for 3 weeks now. Tossed the carboys in the fridge to cool down for a few hours. Still took awhile to even do that. Yeast pitched at 6:45 pm. Wort was dark and bland, as in no biscuit or goofy flavours. I want that. Not a lot of hop bitterness so far, but of course it was sweet. Specs ( OiO ) say the colour is 2 L. Closer to 4 in my opinion, but it doesn't matter as I seem to have way more luck brewing darker beers than lighter ones.
O.G. - 1.046
F.G. - 1.008
% - 5
SRM - 5.8
BU - 31.6
NOTES
One carboy is doing good next am, other one is not. Still have to monitor the temp as the strips and controler are not the same temp. Going good on day 3/4. Smells great, glad I didn't muddle it up with specialty grains. I did learn not to use specialty grains with British malt. ( No biscuit malt, ever again ). Canadian/American? Maybe some Carahell, but 4 - 5% only at first. Sampled a cup of it and it was bland and very green. Not much taste, but no off flavours that I could tell. Keg on Fri July 27 and add gelatin on July 28.
UPDATE - AUG 16
After some research I discovered if I use Target hops late in the boil, I will get a weedy taste. That explains everything now. God, I never knew that. No more experimenting with unfamiliar hops and malt. Stay traditional!!! still not 100% sure it was the target hops. I only used 8 g late in the boil and the rest was at 60 min. It has to be this malt. Stale? Just crappy malt? Me? If I did something wrong, I sure as hell don't know what I did. No more bitters until I can afford some beer gas.
TOSSED OUT
This is astrigent as of Aug 29. I don't have a record of my water profile as I didn't keep it. Now to keg the next bitter. Will know soon.
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