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Maggie Blonde Ale - Thursday, December 28, 2023

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Just your standard Blonde Ale which I started brewing like 40 years ago. Using the Escarpment Labs House Ale yeast I got free from Toronto Brewing. Watching the world juniors and Canada doesn't play today, so get brewing. Escarpment Labs dry yeast has a sachet inside a sachet, interesting... MASHED TOO LOW AGAIN, GO BACK TO F INSTEAD OF C. Ingredients 11 lbs. German Pilsner 8 ozs. Crystal 40 56.7 g Hallertauer at 60 min. Escarpment Labs House Ale dry yeast Package says good for only 5 gallons so that is what I am going to do.  Water Profile - Yellow Balanced CA - 50 MG - 9 S04 - 75 CI - 61 PH - 5.35 O.G. - 1.046 - 79% efficiency F.G. -  1.005 % -     5.4 SRM - 5 BU - 21 ( too high in my opinion. 15 is where I used to be ) Mash Gyp - 1.4 g CI - 1.9 g Eps - 1.9 g Lactic Acid - 1.7 ml Boil  Gyp - 1.3 g CI - 1.8 g Eps - 1.8 g Sparge - .2 ml Mash Water - 5.5 gallons Sparge Water - 5 gallons                     ...