What can I brew for my old man?

[jmc]

Manx Guy has a few posts on Kolsch

I haven't used it myself, but have heard that its very clean tasting, which is what you want, but can take a while to clear.

I wouldn't bother using a true lager yeast unless you had temperature control for the fermentation and ideally a lagering period.

Thats what i was thinking. I will go with the saaz and kolch yeast. ferment it at 18 maybe lower if i can.

Sounds good.
Remember to tell us how you get on as Kolsch yeast, WLP029 is on my (every-growing) to-do list.

[Belter]

I'd go for steam/calofronia common yeast and ferment at 15 degrees. Without temp control I'd just use an ale yeast.

[mozza]

On white labs web page it says that the optimum ferment temperature is 18-20 something degrees. And won't ferment well below 16 so with this yeast I don't think temperature control is all that important. I just fancied using it because of its lager like capabilities and because I wanted to try a liquid yeast. Up until now I've only splashed out a couple quid on the dried packets haha!

[Barley Water]

Well for whatever it's worth I personally hate to bitter with really low alpha hops like Saaz because you end up with alot of vegital matter in the wort relative to the bitterness you get out of them. I like to bitter with Magnum for lagers personally, they give a decent bittering which is smooth (with the added bonus of being cheaper).

[mozza]

I did think this was a lot of hops but I will give it a go any way all a learning curve!

[mozza]

I've been looking at kolch recipes and virtually all don't have late additions. I feel it might be too bland without something thrown in at the end however because its for my dad I've revised the recipe again to something like this
Mozza's Dad's Delight MK3

Date:

Gyle Number:

Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 8 lbs. 3.8 oz 3740 grams 92.7%
Torrefied Wheat 4 EBC 0 lbs. 3.5 oz 100 grams 2.3%
Vienna Malt 7.5 EBC 0 lbs. 7.1 oz 200 grams 5%


Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio
Saaz Whole 3.3 % 90 mins 0 lbs. 1.4 oz 40 grams 78.4%
Saaz Whole 3.3 % 40 mins 0 lbs. 0.4 oz 11 grams 17.2%
Saaz Whole 3.3 % 10 mins 0 lbs. 0.2 oz 5 grams 3.5%
Saaz Whole 3.3 % 5 mins 0 lbs. 0.1 oz 2 grams 0.8%
Saaz Whole 3.3 % 0 mins 0 lbs. 0.1 oz 2 grams 0%


Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.040
Final Gravity: 1.009
Alcohol Content: 3.9% ABV
Total Liquor: 32.3 Litres
Mash Liquor: 10.1 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 20 EBU
Colour: 7 EBC

[mozza]

She's in the fermenter bubbling away. The yeast absolutely stinks, I can see why they call it arse yeast

[Rookie]

What does he like to eat? You could do a beer with a small bittering charge and finish with some spices. My house ale is a recipe that started with my wife and I eating some lemon-rosemary chicken and us wondering how the combo woud taste in a beer. It's even good with 34/70 fermented at 10.

[mozza]

That sounds really interesting actually, not heard of that before!