March Competition- Freestyle

[samale]

@DocAnna
I would be up for a swap if your interested, I don't think I have ever tasted a Gose

 

[NormanHurst]

Congratulations to the medallists! Sounds like another high standard comp. Hope the judges' heads are OK too.

 

[DocAnna]

Wow, thank you @dan125 and @dave_77, that’s wonderfully unexpected , I’d been concerned that it had lost some of the clementine pizazz with bottling. So so glad you liked it x.
Anna

 

[DocAnna]

@DocAnna
I would be up for a swap if your interested, I don't think I have ever tasted a Gose

Yes of course, happy to. I'm about to keg my Rasberry with a hint of passion fruit sour as well so if I leave it till later in the week then I can pop one of those in with it as well .

 

[Leon103]

Watching them get ****** was fun.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Here we go.
Sorry got a 3 year old hanging off my arm...

By half a point difference on splitting the difference between mine and @dan125 scores.

1. Saison @samale -41.5pts
2. Gose @DocAnna -41 pts
3.Rauchbier-39pts @Broken Toe

Well done all

Special congrats to @samale

 

[samale]

Watching them get ****** was fun.

You on the live feed watching

 

[Broken Toe]

Banging, 3rd is a right touch! Well done @samale and @DocAnna

Cheers @dan125 and @dave_77 that was a heroic effort!

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Banging, 3rd is a right touch! Well done @samale and @DocAnna

Cheers @dan125 and @dave_77 that was a heroic effort!

Was the rauchbier the same one you sent me last year?

 

[Broken Toe]

That's the one. I've set aside about 5 or so to age and see if it mellows out the flavours. Definitely improving with age. 640 days to the day

Was the rauchbier the same one you sent me last year?

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Wow, yeah it was very nice that.

 

[samale]

Yes of course, happy to. I'm about to keg my Rasberry with a hint of passion fruit sour as well so if I leave it till later in the week then I can pop one of those in with it as well .

Brilliant I have a Belgian tripel that I am waiting on to come good. I will include one as well

 

[jceg316]

Well done to the winners!!

 

[dave_77]

I have started with the feedback and hope to get them all done by tomorrow night

 

[samale]

Mashing in a saison. I was a bit light on pilsner malt

2.4kg pilsner
1kg Vienna malt
400g wheat
300g sugar

15g magnum@60mins
20g hallertau blanc@10mins
30g hallertau blanc@flameout
50g hallertau blanc@dryhop

Yeast will be wyeast french saison 3711
Abv 5.5%

This is my recipe, I have V2 in the fermenter at the min. I increased the pilsner malt to bring up the abv to 6.5%.
V3 will be upping the temperature slightly to get a bit more out of the yeast. V1 and V2 was at 20 degrees then slowly ramped up to 24 at the end of fermentation.

 

[samale]

This is the feedback
Aroma- fruity, grape & pepper- 9/12

Appearance- Hazy, straw colour-3/3

Flavour- Lemon, grape and mild pepper yeast character. Maybe a little extra character from the yeast would be good
17/20

Mouthfeel- smooth, no astringency. GREAT carbonation which gave it a nice champagne like mouthfeel. Dry with glycerol type mouthfeel giving it some body 4/5

Overall - I like the Blanc playing off the yeast character. It was dry and crisp but the yeast gave it some body in the mouthfeel which comes from glycerol production I think.
9/10

Total -42pts

 

[Fazzer]

Well done to @samale on the win and well done to all the medalists.
Thanks to the judges for taking the time to taste all the beers.

 

[Broken Toe]

For those interested the recipe for my Rauch is below. The trick is to forget you have it for a little under two years.

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

Here we go.
Sorry got a 3 year old hanging off my arm...

By half a point difference on splitting the difference between mine and @dan125 scores.

1. Saison @samale -41.5pts
2. Gose @DocAnna -41 pts
3.Rauchbier-39pts @Broken Toe

Congratulations to the winner and runners up.
Thanks to the judges

 

[Leon103]

You on the live feed watching

Dialled into a meeting with them