Atlas and Summer pale ales

The Homebrew Forum

Help Support The Homebrew Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

duncans

Member
Joined
Dec 31, 2014
Messages
187
Reaction score
77
Location
Dorset
Cheap hops from brew uk. Guess they have a lot of ageing stock, surprising as they are nice. Will use them again.

Did one batch with Atlas's hops and one batch with Summer hops.

Batch Size: 8 l
Efficiency: 70%
Original Gravity: 1.044
Final Gravity (planned): 1.010
ABV (planned) 4.5%
IBU (rager): 35

FERMENTABLES:
1400 g - United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale (88.6%)
70 g - United Kingdom - Crystal 15L (4.4%)
110 g - United Kingdom - Wheat (7%)

HOPS:
12 g - Atlas, Type: Leaf/Whole, AA: 5.8, Use: Boil for 60 min, IBU: 26.82
16 g - Atlas, Type: Leaf/Whole, AA: 5.8, Use: Boil for 10 min, IBU: 7.77
16 g - Atlas, Type: Leaf/Whole, AA: 5.8, Use: Boil for 0 min

YEAST:
Danstar - Nottingham
 
Summer batch

Fermented down to 1012 OK. Tastes promising. Prominent bitterness and a lot of the peachy aroma/flavour from the hops had fermented out. Probably would benefit from dry hopping for that. Bottled and conditioning.


Atlas batch

Didn't ferment out properly - 1025 after 5 days and stuck for 10 days.

I mashed in in a rush at 73C so it could be that but it tasted sugary so maybe pitching some active yeast would have fixed it. Uf, didn't have time to fettle it.

I had been meaning to try a sour beer so on a sleepy impulse chucked in 1/2 a vial of lacto thinking it would chew up any less fermentable sugars.
Forgot that lacto doesn't work so well above 10 IBU ...... :nono:
Will leave it a few months and see what happens anyway.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top