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Small Saison

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Well its been quite a while since I have brewed an all grain, but I need to get the kegs filled. Had some ingredients in the fridge from the last beer I had planned, so we just needed a few things.

This Saison was a bit bigger when I wrote it up, but I think a nice, light easy drinking 4ish % is in order.

  • Small Saison
  • 8lbs 2 row
  • 1lb white wheat
  • 4oz carapils
  • .75oz Target hops @ 60
  • 1oz Saaz @ 5
  • .25 Target @ FO
  • Belle Saison Yeast
  • Mash 155

With a fairly low OG of 1.044 and this yeast, figured I’d mash just a bit higher this time. Anyway, thats it. I’m not adding anything to this.

Kviek Cider

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So I needed to brew something with Kviek yeast for a club monthly brew. I figured everyone was going to do some kind of beer. So I decided to do a cider.

The lhbs has a few choices in Kviek, but the dried Voss is one I didn’t use before.

Other than that, I’m just going to do as simple of a recipe that I can. 3 gallons Juice, 1 lb brown sugar and the Voss. Of course will be doing the nutrient program with it.

(yes this is juice)

Starting gravity was 1.070. but hopeful that I’ll be able to get this bottle primed for the August meeting. We will see!

Retro IPA

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Oh the changes IPAs have gone thru in such a short time. The difference between one today and one from 20 years ago is very different. There used to be a malt component to them. Hops, yes, but there was malt to give it a little balance.

This is not the case any more. There was an arms race in on the hop side that changed IPA, and left everything one sided. But I want those forgotten IPAs. So lets get one going that have the roots of the past versions, but with maybe a bit of newer.

As you can see this is really just a old recipe I had that I swapped a few things to make it feel a bit modern but keep the original body and malt tones.

The bittering hop was Chinook and I changed to the Summit. So the IBU did go up a bit. And the Midnight Wheat used to be Black malt, so we won’t be getting and of the roast bleeding through.

And I will note that I did forget to adjust this recipe from my use of a mash tun to the Mash and Boil that I am using today,, so I am going to expect a bit less efficiency.

Normally I would be expecting around 1.060 for the OG using my tun. But pretty sure the MB will give me 1.054. I could easily add a bit more 2 row, but I probably won’t.

Next up going to be a saison. The snow shoveling months are coming so I will be needing an easy going beer, since all I seem to have right now are bigger ones.