Wednesday, November 9, 2011
First taste - Pale Ale
Finally got to sample my batch of Pale Ale. Pours nice, bottle carbonation took and a good 1/2 head developed. Beer is quite cloudy, I am hoping that with some more time this will clear out a bit but I did not use any finings during the brew process. I may need to add this to future batches or see how a secondary fermentor helps the clarification. Taste was good, not great. Good hop flavor but not a lot of malt balance there. I suspect my grain conversion was not very good which would explain the low starting gravity as well. I am going to let these sit for a couple more weeks and try another. In the mean time, I am looking to brew a Belgian Dubbel. I am sticking with an extract or extract/whole grain mix for now, but I did find instruction for a nice cooler conversion mash tun. Hopefully I can move to all grain after another batch or so. Less expensive and opens up more possibilities. Downside is it will take much more time.
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