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Marzen.
Tastes approximately 10.36 times better than it looks. Only a few days in the keg after a sneaky little force carbing, and improving on a daily basis. Very very happy for a first attempt. Looking forward to the bottles after a few weeks.
Even SWMBO says "possibly your best beer yet". That's good enough for me!
wow - that's a photo right there mate! feck that's a good pic!!
been having the odd sneaky here too. This is 2days at 3dC after crashing, put into a PET then C02 filled ~ purged and bumped for a minute or two
pity the focus on the edge of the glass is a bit A.V .. do you ever walk out to your FV, glass in hand humming that old song Desperado? just me?
s-04 yeast
pils, wheat, caramunich1, lots of acidulated, lots of oats,
64dC mash
pH mash of 4.4 (cold soaked overnight)
4.8pH sparge (7.3 out of the tap, 65ltrs sparge water and then 350mls of orange juice brought it to 4.8
shit-loads of hops in at WP and orange zest
in summary - a dry, acidic, hop heavy 5.2% pale ale with a soft yeast and rounding out the mouthfeel with oats - there's a lot of hops in this beer but the oats and the yeast are saying bring it on, is that all you've got?!
the mash pH has not taken it too far imho, the next brew here will be cold soaked with the same grain bill and acid, but maybe another yeast as it def softens the hops which doesn't make sense to me I guess, tho the same beer with US05 is a bit harsh
...desperado....
