It doesn't seem like I have been doing anything that I should recently, lost focus on everything and need to get back on the saddle. Making some beer today, revisiting the B-plan and just trying to figure everything out again.
Pale Ale
Malts: American 2-Row, Crystal, Wheat
Hops: Columbus, Perle
ABV: ~5%
Playlist: Adam Carolla Podcasts
Keeping at the pale ale because it seems to be getting really good and very close to a finished recipe. What I might do over my next 4 brews (this one included) is make all pale ales with different tweaks and then compare all of them to determine the best. What I would do is keep the same base recipe, use two different hops schedules and two different yeasts. This way I can compare the hops side by side with the same yeast and compare the yeasts with the same hops. This will probably happen, I just need to resist my urge to try different styles for the next few weeks.
I also need to find my way to a Kinkos to print out my entry forms for the Washington homebrewers pro-am. While it would be great to win or have one of my beer selected to be made by a local brewery, I am really just looking for the scores. As much as I respect the opinions of my family and friends, I want to know what an unbiased judge thinks of my beer. Unfortunately I dont really think I am entering my best work, I at least know what the problems are with the beers I am entering so I expect some deficiencies in the scoring. I am entering an Amber, Blonde, Pale and Stout and will post a results entry once I know how it all turned out.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
May? Really?
Been over a week since I have been brewing or doing much of anything to get Payette Brewing going, so might want to get back at it. Not really much sun for today's brew, but I can handle it. Here is some details on what I have going today.
American Wheat
Malt: Wheat, American 2-Row, Crystal, Flaked Wheat
Hops: Columbus, Perle
ABV: ~4.5%
Playlist: New Ben Harper Album with a bit of Randy Rogers mixed in (live at Billy Bob's of course)
This is my standard Wheat Beer recipe I have been making for a while, the grain bill at least, and have been constantly changing up the hops and yeast. This time I am not really sure what to expect, I am using a combination of American hops and German hops then tossing in the English Ale yeast that I have going from the last few beers. I am expecting something much more along the lines of a pale ale than a wheat, but with 50% wheat I should be getting a good does of wheat character. Don't really know until you try right?
It doesn't look like I have a post for the first Amber I made, but there is one on the second one I still have fermenting. The first one is on tap these days, though likely gone after tonight. It is a malt focus beer with little to no hop aroma. I enjoyed it, but feel that it could use some biscuit malt or something to give it a little more bready taste to it. The Vienna and Munich malts give it a sort of lager characteristic that makes it a very smooth beer, but I just think it lacks some bit of complexity to it. I have another one in the pipeline and will be able to do some side by side comparisons to see how my changes affect the beer.
Next week I know that I am going to have plenty of things to post since I will be in Boise and have some meetings lined up, I just don't know when I will get around to putting that stuff up. As real as all this planning has seemed, I feel like it is going to another level of reality next week when I sit down with the marketing and real estate folks.
American Wheat
Malt: Wheat, American 2-Row, Crystal, Flaked Wheat
Hops: Columbus, Perle
ABV: ~4.5%
Playlist: New Ben Harper Album with a bit of Randy Rogers mixed in (live at Billy Bob's of course)
This is my standard Wheat Beer recipe I have been making for a while, the grain bill at least, and have been constantly changing up the hops and yeast. This time I am not really sure what to expect, I am using a combination of American hops and German hops then tossing in the English Ale yeast that I have going from the last few beers. I am expecting something much more along the lines of a pale ale than a wheat, but with 50% wheat I should be getting a good does of wheat character. Don't really know until you try right?
It doesn't look like I have a post for the first Amber I made, but there is one on the second one I still have fermenting. The first one is on tap these days, though likely gone after tonight. It is a malt focus beer with little to no hop aroma. I enjoyed it, but feel that it could use some biscuit malt or something to give it a little more bready taste to it. The Vienna and Munich malts give it a sort of lager characteristic that makes it a very smooth beer, but I just think it lacks some bit of complexity to it. I have another one in the pipeline and will be able to do some side by side comparisons to see how my changes affect the beer.
Next week I know that I am going to have plenty of things to post since I will be in Boise and have some meetings lined up, I just don't know when I will get around to putting that stuff up. As real as all this planning has seemed, I feel like it is going to another level of reality next week when I sit down with the marketing and real estate folks.
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