Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Belgian Summer Ale

I saved the yeast from my Belgian Pale, made a starter with it and decided to make a light Belgian White ale with it. Typically, white's use a "wit" yeast, but i really liked the flavor of the pale, and thought it would work well in a wit. It fermented out well and tastes wonderful. I probably could have upped the spices just a bit, but it's nice and light and has some nice light citrus spice flavors to it. I dug around and sort of used most of the ingredients in an Alligash White clone. I'm debating on when to put this on tap, it's ready, I just have run out of keg space.. a great problem to have! :)

Fermentables
6.75 lb. German Pilsner
4.25 lb. Wheat
.75 lb. Cara Vienna

Hops
1 oz. Golding 5.5% - 60 min
1/2 oz. Willamette - 4.5% - 60 min
1/2 oz. Willamette - 4.5% - 1 min

Spices
.30 oz - Coriander
.30 oz. Ginger
.30 oz. Orange peel
(all added at knock out)

Yeast
Wyeast 3655 Belgian Schelde

OG: 1.055
FG: 1.007
ABV: 6.4%

NKOTB IPA

I brewed this beer with intentions on having it ready by the time the new kid arrived home, but I got busy and haven't started the dry hopping yet, plus this sucker bubbled well over two weeks. I plan to do the dry hopping today. I did this IPA more to use up some hops I had in the freezer. I tasted it, and so far it tastes awesome. The dry hops should finish this off to make it perfect. I have a similar recipe that I brewed on Big Brew Day that I'll be posting later, I think it's destined I tweak this recipe to perfection and name it after the new kid on the block!

NKOTB IPA

US 2-Row Malt - 11.00 lb
US Munich 10L Malt - 2.00 lb
Crystal 20L Malt - 0.50 lb
US White Wheat Malt - 0.50 lb

60 Min - US Magnum - 12.1 % - 1.00 oz
20 Min - US Cascade - 4.5 % - 1.00 oz
20 Min - US Willamette - 4.5 % - 0.50 oz
10 Min - US Cascade - 4.5 % - 1.00 oz
10 Min - US Willamette - 4.5 % - 0.50 oz
5 Min - US Cascade - 4.5 % - 1.00 oz
5 Min - US Willamette - 4.5 % - 0.50 oz
0 Min - US Cascade - 4.5 % - 1.00 oz
0 Min - US Willamette - 4.5 % - 1.00 oz
DH - US Cascade - 4.5 % - 1.00 oz
DH - US Centennial - 8.5% - 1.00 oz

Yeast - SafAle 05

OG: 1.060
FG: 1.008
ABV: 6.9%