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Here's an update of that beer I made that's sitting on so nicely inside of my keg. Since I last posted about it, the taste has mellowed and the beer has become a very nice, smooth drinking IPA with a good balance of hop bite and sweet honey taste. This qualifies as a delicious springtime beer in my book! Anyways, here's the recipe:
The Cape of Good Hops (4 gallon batch)
.5 gallons cool water in the brew pot
add .5 lbs cracked vienna grains
add .33 lbs flaked rye
turn the heat on high and let it slowly come to a boil
Right before rapid boil, skim out the chunks
Boil 60 minutes
At the beginning of the boil, add:
-~6 lbs Thomas Cooper Light Liquid Malt Extract
-1 oz phoenix hops
-1 oz challenger hops
-.5 oz cascade hops
-2 tsp. gypsum
At 45 minutes, add:
-1 tsp. irish moss
At 50 minutes, add:
-.5 oz cascade hops
-.5 oz. chinook hops
At 58 minutes, add:
-.5 oz chinook hops, THEN
-1 cup honey
Yeast- American Ale (Activator... This was the 1st time i didn't use propagator and I like it a lot better; it's way easier)
Any thoughts/suggestions from you homebrewers?
And to the rest of the community... What would your ultimate summer brew taste like/be?
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4 comments:
Not a thought, but a question. All of these measurements that you're listing - are they actually measured out to any level of accuracy, or are you estimating everything and just going by feel as you brew?
All ingredients are all very accurately measured except for the steeping grains (i.e. the vienna and rye); I have to estimate with those because I don't have a scale.
The Amount of high alpha hops in this recipe is amazing. For as much as Randy Mosher in Radical brewing tends to hate high alpha hops. I really think that beyond even a heavy early addition for bittering hops, a lot of the recent varieties tend to also have really good smells and tastes. Like Challenger and Galena.
Also how do you think you achieved the color of the beer that's so distinctive... the Vienna malt maybe?
I'm not really sure about the color. Honestly there wasn't much vienna in it... I think I'll blame the Thomas Cooper malt extract (sorry if i got the name wrong) for the iridescent orange color. Maybe the honey and hops had some sort of weird chemical reaction???? Turtle power!
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