Ok so I did a brew with this recipe:
Some random amount of water between 25 and 30 L
5.5 kgs Golden Promise Pale
.2 kg Cara-pils
.2 kg Cara-munich
.2 kg Pale wheat
mash @ 70 for 60 mins
Total boil 60 mins
30 g Pacific Jade - 60 mins
30 Pacific Jade - 45 mins
25 g Motueka - 10 mins
25 g Pacifica - 10 mins
(brew shop was out of Southern Cross)
us-05 yeast
og 1.037
Ferment about 2 weeks
dry hop 19 g pacifica (my notes say 3 days but I can't actually remember how long I dry hopped it for)
100 g "t2 earl grey blue flower" - 7 days
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I wasn't being very careful with my strike volume/sparging so ended up with about 28 L, which I should have probably boiled down a bit more because the beer is a bit thin and more of a session
I didn't bother racking, just dumped the hops and dry tea leaves right in the primary fermenter and crossed my fingers. I was worried the tea might have shit on it that would infect the beer but decided for best flavour I didn't want to boil/steep the tea and add MORE water since I had already used too much water. But it was all good! I let the tea steep about a week then bottled. Yes there are some bit of tea leaves in the bottled beer but it doesn't bother me
FG 1.009 (3.68 % ABV)
I really like this beer but we did a blind taste test comparison to the Yeastie Boys Gunnamatta and it was easy to tell which was which. This one is a lot more watery than theirs, but nice nevertheless for a session ale and went down really well amongst my librarian workmates
I am going to try brewing this one again but will use less water, maybe increase the mash time and just use loose leaf Dilmah Earl Grey because I have 12 kgs of it (yes I love Earl Grey).
