Recipe tweak advice please
Re: Recipe tweak advice please
I did the brew with Pilgrim and Progress, and it's down to 1.012 5 days on. It's tasting spot on. I notice a distinct honey aroma, and can only think this has come from the hops. Anyone heard of this from those two?
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Re: Recipe tweak advice please
never used pilgrim but it's not a standard progress flavour. i have a coupla times had a really strong honey scent to a beer (markable because i really don't like honey!) but have had a hard time pinning it down to anything in particular. once i blamed it on the s. aurora hops, but another time it showed up in a more standard beer (something probably like pale malt, challenger and 007). i do wonder if it's yeast derived, not neccessarily by itself but reacting with something else, possibly emphasised by residual sweetness.
see if it's still there in a week?
what grainbill did you settle on?
see if it's still there in a week?
what grainbill did you settle on?
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Re: Recipe tweak advice please
Grainbill was a base of Crisp Flagon pale, with about 7.5% caramalt, 6 Munich II, 3 wheat and 2.5 pale choc. Yeast 007 2nd gen.
The mash was 68 and it's not done fermenting yet of course. Will see how it goes. I just googled each of Pilgrim and Progress with 'honey', and honey comes up as a descriptor for both of them!
The mash was 68 and it's not done fermenting yet of course. Will see how it goes. I just googled each of Pilgrim and Progress with 'honey', and honey comes up as a descriptor for both of them!
Busy in the Summer House Brewery