Kolsch recipe?

[bigdave]

Getting this on tomorrow at 6am.

[Matt12398]

Cancelled your brew day? Maybe you should cancel her face.

[far9410]

From what Ive learnt about kolsch, the secret is the yeast, wlp029 is the one.

[bigdave]

Cancelled your brew day? Maybe you should cancel her face.

Haha. I ended up spending the morning delivering stationery to her customers (she's a wedding stationer) but I was rewarded with a pizza and the tv remote this evening.

Think ill try getting some proper kolsch yeast for next brew day but for now it's plain old English ale yeast.

[seymour]

...Think ill try getting some proper kolsch yeast for next brew day but for now it's plain old English ale yeast.

That's okay. Officially, it'll just be an English Golden/Blond Ale instead of a true Kolsch. Still delicious.

[bigdave]

Well, the mash has been on for an hour now. It's smelling good!! Full write up in the brew days forum soon.

[Barley Water]

Well regarding the BJCP I also think there are positives and negatives and that stuff is nowhere near perfect. One of the main reasons I hang around on these forums is because I am looking for a different perspective to British brewing as I strongly suspect we really don't get it over here on this side of the pond. One of the biggest drawbacks to the published guidelines is that they tend to stiffle creativity in my opinion. On the other hand, they do tend to give people a common point of reference so if for instance somebody asks a question about a German heffe I'll tend to answer it based on the quidelines.

Competitions are a funny thing though and unfortunately to hold one you need some type of juding criterion. No matter what people say, they are compeletely subjective and of course there are judges and then there are judges. I generally only pay attention to score sheets from judges I know and who's opinion I respect and sometimes I even disagree with them. I am however terrible at judging my own stuff so it really helps to put the beer into a blind judging situation; many is the time I have made a beer I thought was really good only to get slammed. By the way, I am not a certified BJCP judge; my entire focus is to make the best beer I can. Frankly, I have taken enough tests in my life, I just do this stuff for fun. Yeah, it's fun to win once in awhile and if you are in a club unfortunately your brewing skill is judged at least in part by how many metals you have won. At the end of the day though, I think competing is an excellent way to make yourself a better brewer and it does give us something to talk about when quaffing our beers which after all is the entire point.

[seymour]

Well regarding the BJCP I also think there are positives and negatives and that stuff is nowhere near perfect. One of the main reasons I hang around on these forums is because I am looking for a different perspective to British brewing as I strongly suspect we really don't get it over here on this side of the pond.... At the end of the day though, I think competing is an excellent way to make yourself a better brewer and it does give us something to talk about when quaffing our beers which after all is the entire point.

Well spoken, I agree with all your points.

Cheers!

[bigdave]

I like the the guidelines on beer style when building my own recipes as it gives me a jumping off point. I'm not too interested in competitions. I know my beers are amateurish and are often a whole world away from being "in style" but hey ho. As long as I make beer I like, I'm happy.... Says the man with 1/2 a keg of pale ale he doesn't like so won't drink. lol