Saturday, February 21, 2004

I guess this is batch #6, since I can't find a entry anywhere for that batch. I using American Hef again, this time I steep some grain for 30 minutes to add a little more flavor. True different yeast bring very different flavors but the background flavors after will still be the same. Actually I did a lot of changes in this batch, not really something I wanted to do when I started brewing but we'll see how things go. Like I said I don't really like making too many changes at one time. I want to appreciate what different components do to the beer. I used fuggle hops that have about 4.2% Acid, also give to the beer a earthy flavor. Next time I'll try Saaz which I'm told will give a fruitier flavor. Instead of dumping half in the wort at the beginning of the boil and the other half at the end of the boil I dumped the whole 2oz at the beginning and put about 2oz of orange peel at the end of the boil. I also used a different extract mix. I used my usual Amber, but mixed it with a pale wheat malt. The musslin bag I use to put my Hops in isn't holding as it should be I might have to go back to leaf type hops because it's easier to strain out that pellets.

To summize
American hef yeast
fuggle 4.2% alpha acid
Orange peels about 2 oz
amber extract
light wheat extract
OG=1.068