BeerBorg

Yesterday I helped Redbeerd brew a pale aleish type beer for his daughter (my godchild) for a small graduation party in mid May. We're pushing the timeline a bit but we should be fine.
Brewday went perfect, we hit all the numbers and we not only did some mini hopbursting to help with flavor, we tried a 20 minute hop stand but we're also doing a generous dry hop as well.
It was a simple recipe designed to be 5-5.5%ABV but since most of those who will drink it like the lighter beers, we wanted to give them light but something with flavor. So, we used 2 row, with 3/4 pound each of C40 and White Wheat. Other than a small amount of Chinook at 60 minutes, we used Cascades and Centennial throughout. We closed it out with some US-05 and called it a day.....but not until we finished a bottle of Dr. Hoptagon!

Sounds real good Paul, should be quite flavorfull!

Nice, very nice. Looking forward to how this turns out.

Nice sounding bunch of ingredients you got there. Looks like it should produce a nice ale.

Sounds like a great brewday capped off with good beer. What more could you ask for?

JimH wrote:Sounds like a great brewday capped off with good beer. What more could you ask for?

I could have used a few hours more sleep and today off. Nah, I'd rather bitch about work instead.

Hey Paul,

If you're pushing the timeline I have found that the use of gelatin helps speed up the conditioning. As we've discussed before, just adjust your dry hop (yes, I assume you'll be doing a dry hop) accordingly.

What works for others is to add the gelatin & cold crash, then rack the beer off the yeast for the dry hop.
This pulls the yeast and other proteins out before you dry hop. The issue with dry hopping and THEN using gelatin is that the hop oils bind to the yeast - which then gets pulled out by the gelatin.

Just a thought -

Great info but I think we will just take our chances. Hey, it's just for young folks, what do you, I mean they, know?

Had a great day today. My niece had about 20 friends over and the twin and I boiled 125 lbs of crayfish. We had the 2.5 gallon keg iced and some bottles as well. Man, I was blown away with this beer. Simple, clean, extremely well balanced. My wife was sitting by the keg and overhead one kid (sorry, young man) tell another friend. "I just love foreign beer". Except for just a few bottles, it's all gone.
I would have thought it came from a local brewery it was so good. It wasn't a hoppy IPA I'm use to but a nice alternative. Perfect for the occasion. The twin brothers hit it out the park. So simple. The only thing I would change is a bit more late additions for the nose. But, it still had a nice aroma. And I really think the 20ish minute hop stand helped make this beer.

What a great win for the Brew Brothers and their "foreign beer".

Heck of a successful brew for you and redbeerd! Congrats

Only 3 weeks in the bottle and I'm glad we used corn sugar in the keg. Hardly needed the tank to finish the beer. Carbed perfectly. I don't know if there's even 1 bottle left to sit a few more weeks and try but this was pretty smooth at 3 weeks.

How much sugar did you use to carb it?

For the 2.5 gallon keg we used 1 1/2 oz. It was perfect after 3 weeks. Of course the first few pours were a bit muddy but fine after that.

Glad the beer was enjoyed by all. Sounds like you've got a good recipe there.