cascade ale look ok ?

[alfie09]

well there we are i kegged this as i couldnt be bothered bottling as it got to late. and god the house stinks of cascade, 100 grams dry hopping with pellets a result??? i think so.. just pouring myself a few pints of this i reckon............ slippery slope i know

worked out quite dear this.

malt £6-£7
yeast £1.99
hops roughly £25 300 grams US cascade leaf/pellets dry hopping

£32.99 for 26 litres of beer with a aroma to kill for = RESULT

[Gold]

hops roughly £25 300 grams US cascade leaf/pellets dry hopping

Where are you getting them from for that price? Worcester Hop Shop is £2.41/100g for whole leaf and The Home Brew Shop is £3.12/100g for pellets.

[Goulders]

Harrods? lol

[Barley Water]

I have been participating in this hobby for a very long time and I would admonish you guys to never start trying to figure out how much it costs you to brew a batch. First of all, once you get good at it you will for sure save money over the commerical stuff for a comperable brew. The main thing though is that society benefits because you are at home brewing as versus running around causing trouble in the world, priceless.

[alfie09]

probally a over estimation that lol oops. more like £15. i ordered them silly at 100 grams @ a time working out @ £15 roughly each one costing nearly £5 delivered

[alfie09]

just having a pint of this and it nice the missus is sitting in the garden with me and were having a few of these now yummy is the word. does anyone get a ripe melon taste of the mauribrew yeast?

[seymour]

...does anyone get a ripe melon taste of the mauribrew yeast?

Which Mauribrew yeast? Mauribrew English Ale Y514 or Mauribrew Weiss Y1433? What was your fermentation temperature, and how quickly did it reach final gravity?

[alfie09]

...does anyone get a ripe melon taste of the mauribrew yeast?

Which Mauribrew yeast? Mauribrew English Ale Y514 or Mauribrew Weiss Y1433? What was your fermentation temperature, and how quickly did it reach final gravity?

mauribrew english ale Y514 fermented low around 15oc-16oc took a good week and a bit to get down to 1010-1009. tastes ok but none what so ever taste of cascade even after using 300grams of them in this brew, never using that yeast again its took all the flavour out of the beer and left me with melon tasting beer absolute shite

[alfie09]

maybe i should gave it more time, but last week i tried it and it was nice with cascade flavour. yesterday i tried it and nothing at all no cascade taste or smell, just melon and yeasty smell. its not off it tastes fine just not what i was looking for

[seymour]

mauribrew english ale Y514 fermented low around 15oc-16oc took a good week and a bit to get down to 1010-1009. tastes ok but none what so ever taste of cascade even after using 300grams of them in this brew, never using that yeast again its took all the flavour out of the beer and left me with melon tasting beer absolute shite

Hmm, interesting. Melon esters might be interesting if desired and done correctly, but no one wants an ale yeast which mutes hops. Odd. It wasn't even a particularly fast fermentation, which is a main selling point. Thanks for the feedback.

[alfie09]

wierd in it, ummmm will leave it for another couple of weeks see what happens aint it.

[seymour]

wierd in it, ummmm will leave it for another couple of weeks see what happens aint it.

My first thought when you said "melon" was it might be an interesting yeast for a beer with a tropical fruit salad vibe, along the lines of Samuel Adams (Barrel Room Collection) New World Tripel or Odell Myrcenary Double India Pale Ale. Sounds like you'd have to use copious amounts of hops high in Myrcene, though, if the yeast is prone to mute them...

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/odell-myrc ... le/134673/