AG#66 - Centennial Blonde

[WishboneBrewery]

Centennial Blonde - A blonde ale made with mostly lager malt to hopefully get somewhere close to www.drinkmallinsons.co.uk 'Centennial'.

Fermentables:
Lager Malt - 79.1%
Wheat Malt - 7.9%
Oat Malt - 7.8%
CaraHell (Weyermann) - 5.3%

Hops:
Centennial Whole 11.5 % @ 60 mins - 25g - (FWH)
Centennial Whole 11.5 % @ 10 mins - 20g
Centennial Whole 11.5 % @ 0 mins - 30g - (20 minute Copper Stand)

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.036
Final Gravity: 1.009
Alcohol Content: 3.5% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.1 Litres
Mash Liquor: 9.1 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 36 EBU - I've set the hop utilisation in BeerEngine to 25% for this to see if things turn out a bit more realistic.
Colour: 5 EBC

Blended malts:

The garage brewery Corner, I thought I'd add a bit of an overview of my setup:

A few Centennial Hops:

The Mash:

Another view of the Brewery Corner:

First sparge running into the copper onto the First Wort Hops:

Flameout hops going in:

The Money shot, hydrometer says a bit above what the Refractometer said:

AG#66 - Centennial Blonde by pdtnc, on Flickr

All done and cleaned up in about 5 hours, Mashed in at 8.30am for 60mins, boiled for 60mins, Hop steep for 20mins, cooled, stood for 20mins then ran to fermenter and pitched Safale us-05 at 20c

[leedsbrew]

nice one ade! should be a cracker! might it be making it's way to Lancaster? 20 day turn around? might be a bit quick like?

[WishboneBrewery]

could maybe, it is only a 3.5%-ish

[coatesg]

With a good whack of centennial it should be drunk fairly young 20 days sounds OK to me as long as you can crash the US05 out quick enough and force carb it.

[lancsSteve]

Hoping my cascadian will be ready - should be as it's dry hopped in secondary but recon my belgian pale will be too young really... Will have a stout ready.

[WishboneBrewery]

Hopefully I'll have about 4 or 5 beers to bring

[WishboneBrewery]

First taste of this is very promising considering it was only bottled about a week ago
Bitterness is quite noticeable which is refreshing to know after I changed the BeerEngine hop Utilisation settings. I could maybe now change it from 25% to 30% for the next brew.