Thursday, June 23, 2011
1. Inside the box
It's a question of whether this is shutting the clouds out, or closing the mist in. In either case, it's desolation.
2. The varnish
Just had a proper taste of the dunkelweizen which was bottled last weekend! Yx is a fan of dunkelweizens, so I made one for her. It was difficult to get hold of any tried and true recipes though, so it was quite an experimentation. In the end, I went with a grain bill of:
3kg pale malt
2kg wheat
150g chocolate malt
150g roasted barley
It was a single infusion mash at 65C for 1 hour, and I deviated away from using traditional hops - instead, bittering was done with East Kent Goldings, with a flameout addition of 12g of Spalt Select for aroma. Also, I used a Belgian wit yeast (think Hoegaarden) instead of regular German hefeweizen yeast. The result was yummy, but I'll let it carbonate a bit more before I write up full tasting notes!
What's next then? The current inventory consists of :
American pale ale - 3 mini-kegs
India pale ale - 8 bottles
Stout - 12 bottles
Hefeweizen - 1 mini-keg
Dunkelweizen - 2 mini-kegs
In other words, 2 regular house parties and I'll be cleaned out. I'm shooting for another IPA - maybe a Stone IPA clone?
Wenky
7:09 AM
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