Sunny Brew Day Part II

I had other plans when I woke up this morning, but in the end it felt like a day to sit on the front porch and make some beer. 70 and sunny on Green Lake, pretty awesome. Going after the elusive Pale Ale again even though I wrote against it earlier, I actually got a little better response from my last one so with some tweaks, here we go again.

Pale Ale
Malts: American 2-Row, Crystal, Honey Malt
Hops: Columbus, Amarillo
ABV: ~ 5%

Sipping on the Blonde Ale I made a few weeks back, biggest problem is that I didn't use any clarifying agents so it is really cloudy. Doesn't affect the taste of the beer, but with the aesthetics, a blonde ale should be brilliantly clear. Seems like a very good summer beer. A low 4.2% abv, a slight fruity taste and a subtle hop bitterness. Going to give it another try in a week, only change I am going to make is the yeast. Could make a large difference, but I am making an effort to re-pitch yeast from batch to batch and I have a different yeast in the pipeline.

Still trying to put together a draft line cleaning business on the side. The only thing really holding me back is finding the right hose fittings, trying to make some homemade adapters to make my equipment work really easily. So at this rate I will be in business in ten years.

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