Donske said:
I had a few pints of a pale ale I brewed with the AU Cascade flowers last night, I can't offer too much as the Cascade is paired with Simcoe in that beer through the late additions which muddles the flavour/aroma a bit.
What I can say is that this version of the beer seemed a bit more subtle on the usual grapefruit notes expected, the other thing is I picked up a bit of something different in the aroma, maybe earthiness if that makes sense.
I have an American amber fermenting that has 155g of these flowers thrown in at 10 minutes fermenting at the moment so I should have some more useful feedback in a week or 2.
Alright, drinking the Amber mentioned above finally, took a bit longer on the yeast cake than expected, had 1272 throw some weird aroma that completely overpowered the beer, that's settled down and the beer is kegged and carbed but still pretty green.
The aroma is amazing, nice hit of malt, fairly subdued grapefruit and a bit of earthiness that seems to fit somehow, definately not what I was expecting but nice regardless.
Flavour is mostly malt wierdly with all those flowers at 10 minutes, not sure what's up there but there is a great smooth bitterness and C hop hit up front, it's just quickly overtaken.
Really nice beer but no where near what I was aiming for, I really wanted to be slapped in the face by Cascade but it's just not there.
All in all a nice hop but definately different to US Cascade. I'll probably skip the Australian Cascade for APAs and AIPAs in future, but I may use them in some english style beers, they'd be cracking in a mild or bitter to my taste.
Recipe below.
10 minute Cascade Amber (American Amber Ale)
Original Gravity (OG): 1.059 (°P): 14.5
Final Gravity (FG): 1.015 (°P): 3.8
Alcohol (ABV): 5.80 %
Colour (SRM): 16.2 (EBC): 31.9
Bitterness (IBU): 32.2 (Average)
86.21% Maris Otter Malt
8.62% Crystal 60
5.17% Caraaroma
6.7 g/L Cascade (6.5% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil)
0.9 g/L Cascade (6.5% Alpha) @ 7 Days (Dry Hop)
Single step Infusion at 66°C for 90 Minutes. Boil for 90 Minutes
Fermented at 20°C with Wyeast 1272 - American Ale II
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