2017 Decembeer Exchange - December 6
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 4:36 pm
Hi Everyone,
Here is my beer for the exchange. It's a blend of two beers, one that's been on brett L for a year, and a younger base beer, at 2:1 base beer to brett beer. The bretted beer was an ESB that was fairly hoppy, or maybe a red English IPA. I drank half of it at the time and added a vial of White Labs brett L and let it sit in the basement for a year. The younger beer was just something similar, but I wanted a lower bitterness to offset the higher bitterness in the bretted beer. The four kinds of crystal malt isn't for complexity so much as it was mostly just to use up some mostly empty bags. I bottled it Nov. 20, so please let it continue conditioning until Dec. 6. If for some reason you don't get around to it then, I'd put it in the fridge. There is live brett in there that will continue eating the residual carbs in the fresh beer, so over a long enough timeline they will explode. I don't know how long that is, but my guess is more than a few weeks.
Clean base beer
OG: 1.048
FG: 1.010
IBU: 33
SRM: 14
ABV: 4.93%
Recipe was for 12 gallons.
Grains:
20.25 lb Canada Malting Pale Ale (92%)
0.25 lb Cara Red (1.1%)
0.31 lb Crystal 60 (1.4%)
0.36 lb Crystal 120 (1.6%)
0.33 lb Cara Aroma (1.5%)
0.5 lb Pale Chocolate Malt (2.3%)
Hops:
2 oz Magnum 11.3% (60 minutes)
0.5 oz Goldings (15 minutes)
0.5 oz Goldings (flameout)
Water:
Well water with estimates for mineral content and some additions. Probably moderately hard without too many carbonates.
Yeast:
S0$, 14g/6 gallon bucket, rehydrated.
Bretted beer
OG: 1.055
FG: 1.004
IBU: 50
SRM: 13
ABV: 6.65%
Recipe was for 12 gallons.
Grains:
21.5 lb Maris Otter (90%)
1 lb Carastan (4.2%)
0.88 lb Muntons C110 (3.79%)
0.5 lb Pale Chocolate Malt (2.3%)
Hops:
2. oz Warrior 15.8% (60 minutes)
2 oz Goldings (15 minutes)
2 oz Goldings (flameout)
Water:
Well water with estimates for mineral content and some additions. Probably moderately hard without too many carbonates.
Yeast:
S0$, 14g/6 gallon bucket, rehydrated. Finished with Brett L for a year.
Here is my beer for the exchange. It's a blend of two beers, one that's been on brett L for a year, and a younger base beer, at 2:1 base beer to brett beer. The bretted beer was an ESB that was fairly hoppy, or maybe a red English IPA. I drank half of it at the time and added a vial of White Labs brett L and let it sit in the basement for a year. The younger beer was just something similar, but I wanted a lower bitterness to offset the higher bitterness in the bretted beer. The four kinds of crystal malt isn't for complexity so much as it was mostly just to use up some mostly empty bags. I bottled it Nov. 20, so please let it continue conditioning until Dec. 6. If for some reason you don't get around to it then, I'd put it in the fridge. There is live brett in there that will continue eating the residual carbs in the fresh beer, so over a long enough timeline they will explode. I don't know how long that is, but my guess is more than a few weeks.
Clean base beer
OG: 1.048
FG: 1.010
IBU: 33
SRM: 14
ABV: 4.93%
Recipe was for 12 gallons.
Grains:
20.25 lb Canada Malting Pale Ale (92%)
0.25 lb Cara Red (1.1%)
0.31 lb Crystal 60 (1.4%)
0.36 lb Crystal 120 (1.6%)
0.33 lb Cara Aroma (1.5%)
0.5 lb Pale Chocolate Malt (2.3%)
Hops:
2 oz Magnum 11.3% (60 minutes)
0.5 oz Goldings (15 minutes)
0.5 oz Goldings (flameout)
Water:
Well water with estimates for mineral content and some additions. Probably moderately hard without too many carbonates.
Yeast:
S0$, 14g/6 gallon bucket, rehydrated.
Bretted beer
OG: 1.055
FG: 1.004
IBU: 50
SRM: 13
ABV: 6.65%
Recipe was for 12 gallons.
Grains:
21.5 lb Maris Otter (90%)
1 lb Carastan (4.2%)
0.88 lb Muntons C110 (3.79%)
0.5 lb Pale Chocolate Malt (2.3%)
Hops:
2. oz Warrior 15.8% (60 minutes)
2 oz Goldings (15 minutes)
2 oz Goldings (flameout)
Water:
Well water with estimates for mineral content and some additions. Probably moderately hard without too many carbonates.
Yeast:
S0$, 14g/6 gallon bucket, rehydrated. Finished with Brett L for a year.