02-03-2008: Landlady

spearmint-wino · Post by **spearmint-wino** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:04 pm

Got a sneaky brew in this morning, hour mash and boil so no time for piccies or posting throughout the brew. All cleaned up and 24l sitting happily in the fermenter by 2.15pm, pretty smooth overall with no mishaps

. Now time for a beer

Vaguely similar malt and hops to the Landlord clone, except blonde and more floral, so I guess that makes it a...

Landlady

Original Gravity: 1.043
Alcohol: 4.3%
Bitterness: 36 IBU

Ingredients:
4300 g Maris Otter Pale
150 g Crystal Malt 30Â°L

35 g Challenger (8.6%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min
1 ea Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) - added during boil, boiled 15 min
10 g Styrian Goldings (3.1%) - added during boil, boiled 10 min
7 g Challenger (8.6%) - added during boil, boiled 10 min
20 g Styrian Goldings (3.1%) - steeped after boil

Safale S-04

Wez · Post by **Wez** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:19 pm

Nicely done SW, that looks a tasty recipe

subsub · Post by **subsub** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:44 pm

Well done SW nice simple recipe

SiHoltye · Post by **SiHoltye** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:01 pm

Get in SW! Early brew and drinks on a Sunday.

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:02 pm

Indeed, nice work. Finished by 2.15pm? Nice early start then, too early for me

spearmint-wino · Post by **spearmint-wino** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:16 pm

Got started about 7.30am so not much shorter than your standard brewday really, just earlier. Next time I'll go for something more adventurous, been doing a lot of 'golden ales' recently. Trouble is they go down so well...

roger the dog · Post by **roger the dog** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:25 pm

Too true, good work SW

prodigal2 · Post by **prodigal2** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:50 pm

Nice one SW

Though I am in shock you started so early on a sunday

Horden Hillbilly · Post by **Horden Hillbilly** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:55 pm

Looks like it went ok for you s-w, nice one!

ECR · Post by **ECR** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:58 pm

Sounds good

mixbrewery · Post by **mixbrewery** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:24 am

I dont suppose it will be ready for a sample at the Wenlock on Monday night!

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:24 am

Dedication to the cause being up that early

Nice one SW

spearmint-wino · Post by **spearmint-wino** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:24 am

mixbrewery wrote:I dont suppose it will be ready for a sample at the Wenlock on Monday night!

Not even S-04 works that fast

spearmint-wino · Post by **spearmint-wino** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:35 pm

I'm notoriously bad at following up on posts so here's a go at putting that right. I had the first bottle of this on Wednesday night (to make space for kegging the 1880 bitter, honest) and this is what I found...

It poured crystal clear, but the aroma was mainly yeasty with little in the way of hops. There was good mouthfeel but it definitely felt over-carbonated. There was a light maltiness and good strong bitterness in the mouth but little in terms of hop flavour save a mellow spicyness, probaby from the challenger. I shook some of the carbonation out and it began to drink better with a slightly more pronounced hop flavour but not much. The finish was nice but where have all the hops gone?

I'll give it another couple of weeks and hopefully it will have matured some more. And I guess there's always the option of dry-hopping the keg. Probably with something powerful at this rate!

fivetide · Post by **fivetide** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:06 pm

It looks exactly like the kind of pint I enjoy.

Will/can the hoppiness kick in with further conditioning, or will the yeastiness just subside to reveal the hops?

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02-03-2008: Landlady

02-03-2008: Landlady