Well, spring is in the air and it has been beautiful here in Portland lately. Best spring I can remember. That better not jinx the next three months... I tried a new beer the other day, NWPA from Fort George Brewing. It was awesome. Light bitterness with a ton of hop aroma. There was a large amount of hop particles floating in the beer, that was poured from a can (why breweries filter everything seems strange to me, I like the lack of filtering on a beer like this). It was delicious. So naturally, I used that beer to inspire one of my own.
This is a session style beer (4.2%) with only 23 IBU's. There are a ton of hops in this thing though. I'm hoping that the aroma and flavor really dominates over the usual crazy bittering I do. I also didn't do any hop additions at 60 minutes, but let it boil plain for 30 minutes, then added hops at the midway point. Hopefully that really does something good for the beer. Anyways, here's the details...
Recipe:
10.5 gallons
Fermentables:
12.5# GW 2-Row
2# Victory
1.5# Carapils
1.5# Crystal 30L
Anticipated OG: 1.044
Actual OG: 1.048
Anticipated FG: 1.010
Actual FG:
Anticipated ABV: 4.5%
Actual ABV:
Hops:
(60 minute boil)
1oz CTZ at 30m
2oz Citra at 5m
2oz Cascade at flameout
2oz Citra at flameout
4oz Cascade dryhop for 7 days
2oz Citra dryhop for 7 days
IBU's: 23
Yeast:
1 pack of Safale US-05 made with 1L starter two days before.
Notes:
4/24/13: Brewed this last Monday (2 days ago). I'm fermenting this one in a 50L keg with a stopper and an airlock in the bunghole. So far so good. Gravity was at 1.019 today which is impressive since I only used one pack of Safale. I guess the starter is helping out. It's the first time I've used a starter. So far the aroma and flavor is exactly what I was going for.
