AG#108 - Vienna Blonde

[WishboneBrewery]

Vienna Blonde fair enough, this is not a Vienna lager recipe but I'm after an easy drinking beer for Christmas which anyone can drink. All German hops and done with subtlety, used the Mild Water profile from THBF Liquor Treatment Calculator to give it a healthy dose of Chloride.

Fermentables:
Lager Malt - 80%
Carapils (Weyermann) - 10%
Vienna Malt - 10%

Hops:
Magnum - 12.7 % @ 60 mins - 13g (FWH)
Hallertauer Hersbrucker - 3.0 % @ 5 mins - 23g
Tettnang - 3.8 % @ 5 mins - 23g

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.037
Final Gravity: 1.009
Alcohol Content: 3.6% ABV
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 20 EBU
Colour: 4 EBC
Mash: 60mins, Aimed for 69c and got 68c
Yeast: Safale us-05

The tiny amount of First wort hops:

This was the Mash pH:

A restrained amount of late hops:

The OG pre-liquorback:

AG#108 - Vienna Blonde, 1043.5 before liquorback, Going for 1037 by pdtnc, on Flickr
After liquoring back I had around 24 litres.

[leedsbrew]

looks good man!

[barney]

Never Seen Such hop Restraint!

That looks a delicious wort.

[WishboneBrewery]

you on homebrew catch-up?

I'll add that this was down to 1011.5 yesterday, hopefully not go past 1009 on the recipe.

I was very restrained, tastes good though

[barney]

I Most certainly am; Didnt brew over summer. No Infections and no beer thrown away. Currently brewing next years stuff. LOL.

[alix101]

Looks great. .. Did you consider more Vienna. ..I looked at the title and thought Negra Madelo ale ....now the boys on to something.

[WishboneBrewery]

I did consider more Vienna, but this is a Blonde and I'm keeping things light, I've never heard of Negra Madelo.
Has finished fermenting at 1008.5, pretty much bang on target.

[alix101]

Probably my spelling ...Nagra modelo.... its one of the few examples of a Vienna larger.. It's Mexican but was a European style but I'm sure with a Kolsch yeast it would be great its 80/100% Vienna malt. ..

[WishboneBrewery]

sounds good.

[orlando]

Did you intend a pH of 6?

[leedsbrew]

Did you intend a pH of 6?

Am I missing something? That looks like about 5.3/5.4 to me!

[orlando]

Did you intend a pH of 6?

Am I missing something? That looks like about 5.3/5.4 to me!

No, just me forgetting how you read strips

[WishboneBrewery]