My notes say:
---Slightly hazy orange, ample carbonation. Aroma is fruity and spicy, sweetish even. Mouthfeel is full but refreshing, taste is fruity, malty, dry, and there is that malt-forwardness for sure. Hoppiness makes the beer feel quite solid, there is bitterness but it’s rather up front – none of that late hop aroma silliness (it is a fad I’m sure). Solid, balanced, bitter in a reassuring old-fashioned way.
Sort of a Belgian Saison without that typical Belgian yeast character which can easily make a beer undrinkable in quantity as the “elusive” in “elusive drinkability” crystallises. None of that problem here at 5.8 per cent abv – the smoothness, the smoothness.---
The recipe:
name Progress Single Hop
“style” English IPA
brewlength 24 litres
IBU 53
EBC 16
OG 1057
brewing date 6-Jul-13
yeast Nottingham
fermentables grain kg %
grain 1 Pale Ale 4.70 82.8%
grain 2 Munich 0.56 9.9%
grain 3 Vienna 0.29 5.1%
grain 4 Crystal 0.12 2.1%
total 5.67kg
hops gram minutes ibu
Progress 8.25% 25 FWH 19
Progress 8.25% 30 60 23
Progress 8.25% 30 15 11
total 85g
mash schedule minutes degrees c
step 1 mash in 40
step 2 70 67
step 3 15 77
1/4 tsp Gypsum in the boil
Simple pleasures, eh...
