50:50 Cascade

[SiHoltye]

Hello,

Unexpected day off work today, so 2nd day running brewing!! Yippee!

Ingredients
25L
Amount Item Type % or IBU
2.25 kg Lager Malt (3.9 EBC) Grain 50.00 %
2.25 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.0 EBC) Grain 50.00 %
15.00 gm Cascade [6.90 %] (60 min) Hops 9.5 IBU
45.00 gm Cascade [6.90 %] (15 min) Hops 14.1 IBU
40.00 gm Cascade [6.90 %] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
1.43 tbsp PH 5.2 Stabilizer (Mash 60.0 min) Misc
1.43 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
24.00 L London, England Water
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04) Yeast-Ale

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.044 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.012 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.26 %
Bitterness: 23.6 IBU
Est Color: 6.8 EBC

Pre-boil I had 32L @ 1.039
Putting in the IC in a mo. Hassle free morning (so far!).

[delboy]

Have a good one

[SiHoltye]

I didn't take the steeping hops out of the freezer before time to add them. They're the gold foil vacuum packed brick type. So now I have a 40g floating brick of Cascade steeping on my brew. I keep trying to break it up with my placcy spoon but it has resisted so far!

[Buzz]

Putting in the IC in a mo. Hassle free morning (so far!).

Blimey, must have had an early start

[SiHoltye]

All done. Left the lid on fermentor outside to fall from 30deg to 20deg before pitching. 25L @ 1.042. Don't 'spose the wife will agree to 2 fermentation chambers eh? Don't think I'll ask.

[SiHoltye]

Hi Buzz,

Mashed in at 09.30am. 1.5 hr mash, 60 min boil, 45mins to chill.

[SiHoltye]

Just drank the hydro sample. 1.018 after 44 hours. Tastes yum. Light, not thin, sweetish but will get drier as the SG drops further. Nice hops. Still got a lovely thick foam on.

Fermentor samples often lovely, just because their an early stolen taster of underage beer!

This applies to Beer only.

[Gurgeh]

[SiHoltye]

After 4 weeks maturing this is the last bottle (keg got drunk ages ago), except for 6 going to Derby competition.

It's really easy to drink and very tasty. I undercooked the carbonation though so will add more primings next time.

This 50/50 business tastes lovely as an introduction to 'real' bitter. May try one soon with all lager malt to see how it is different from this. I think perhaps less body still? Choosing as clean a yeast as poss might help, Nottingham I think.

[ECR]

Very good

[Andy]

Passes the Feck test with flying colours