CS7 - Summer ale

[vdog]

This was brewed as an easy summer quaffer - a bit late in the season but it's gone down well so far. I didn't have enough to get 16 bottles though (keg blew dry on number 15...) so if you get a bottle with a blue star instead of red, you've got the re-brew of the last case swap beer I did (an english/american hybrid pale ale) which I adjusted with less biscuit malt and more NZ Fuggles.

All bottled from the keg, so you shouldn't have any drama with needing to settle or worrying about sediment.

Summer Ale (70L batch)
12.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 89.3 %
1.25 kg Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 8.9 %
0.25 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain 1.8 %
34.59 gm Nelson Sauvin [12.60%] (60 min) 15.2 IBU
34.59 gm Nelson Sauvin [12.60%] (20 min) 9.2 IBU
43.24 gm Nelson Sauvin [12.60%] (10 min) 6.9 IBU
43.33 gm Nelson Sauvin [12.60%] (0 min)
2 Pkgs US-05

OG 1.042, FG 1.008 - abv 4.4%

[vdog]

No, but that's an interesting idea...

[Reviled]

One that's been done before, as THC is alcohol soluble believe it or not ;o) lol - imagine it??

 

Google Braindeath barley wine for more info, even Michael Jackson tried it at a beer festival haha, some brewery entered it without actually saying what was in it (for obvious legality reasons)

[Richard Jack]

Some, uh, mates tell me that it's best to extract the THC in a neutral spirit first.

[Reviled]

lol, mates eh ;o)

 

You could probably skip the extraction part all together and just mix in some of that synthetic sh*t that seems to be so popular these days, and then it would also be 'legal' haha

[James Stanton]

Finally got around to this one (sorry Vdog, shoulda prioritised these hoppy brews to the start of the case).

Presentation is glorious.

Really unexpected note on the nose for me - molasses. Rum ferment... and pineapple. Suspect some of the hopes have died off?

Dry as hell on the palate, I can imagine sinking these after mowing the lawn. Carb is very low, but not unpleasantly so.

Thanks for the beer mate