House ale 4/4/07

[delboy]

Just about to sparge what is becoming my house ale

4kg mo
1kg vienna
0.25 kg crystal 60

mash at 65C 75 min
batch sparge

90 min boil

33g cascade 60 min
17g cascade 30 min
8g cascade 15 min
8g cascade 5 min
16g flame out

nottingham yeast

a couple of weeks in primary then keg

[Garth]

mmm cascade

left over from the SNPA by any chance?

[delboy]

mmm cascade

left over from the SNPA by any chance?

I have the best part of a kilo of them in the freezer, got them from slurp the apprentice and v.pleased i am with them to.

There is going to be a whole lot of cascade brewing going on

Away to sparge!!

[Garth]

I have the best part of a kilo of them in the freezer

good Lord,

no point in going short though is there?

[mysterio]

I've got a kilo from slurp as well

Your house ale looks great. I made an all-Vienna brew recently with Amarillo & Centennial hops, came out great. Very toasty and malty.

[delboy]

yeah the vienna gives it a little something extra but still leaves it really drinkable and with the relatively low mash temp and nottingham you get a real easy drinking quaffable golden ale .

[delboy]

stopped the sparging at about 1014 and ended up with just over 5 gallons at 1053 gravity after the boil. Looking forward to another 5%+ easy drinking ale.

On a side note i didn't see a big drop in the hydro readings overnight like i have previously with a 60 min boil, so it looks like i am brewing beer thats pretty damn strong, well chuffed

[spearmint-wino]

Sounds super-cool, I'm loving Cascade at the moment too