British Golden Ale - Sunday March 29 2020 - TOSSED OUT

Just brewing something with this US malt I bought from Brewers Pantry. Low alcohol beer for sure. I am looking for a nice, lite medium hopped brew. Well that didn't happen.

Ingredients

10 lbs. Proximity Malt
8 ozs. Carastan
34 g EKG at 60 min.
Cal Ale yeast from Escarpment Labs

O.G. - 1.040
F.G. -  1.007
% -      4.3
SRM - 4.4
BU - 25

Screwed up already. Added my Helles lactic acid to the mash instead of this recipe's amount. Added 2.2 g of baking soda to raise it. Hope it works. Mash seems to be working better since I added a pitcher of sparge water when I doughed in. That had to put it up to around 2 qts/water per lb. of grain. Not sure what that would do. Mill on notch 3 with this malt for the last 30 pounds. Research indicated 2 lbs. water/grain is the limit and that is where I am, so stop worrying about it.

Friday, April 9 - Almost done. Day 12. Last time using this yeast. I like using Nottingham Super
yeast. $4.00 a packet. Way cheaper than liquid yeast which is getting harder to find now that the supply is not coming up from the US. or slow to get here. I need to buy 10 packets more to make sure of stock for the future. Need a sack of grain too. If I have to tear down the Gazebo and deck to replace the septic system, beer making will end for awhile.



May toss this out too. Same as the previous one. Not sure why it takes over the flavour like it has. I wonder if milling on notch 4 is too much and the powder like grist ruins the beer? If I don't do this, my efficiency is done to 59%. Will do more research on this before tossing this out.

Kegged on April 15
Gelatin on April 19