Brewing a blonde ale this weekend. I've made it many times always been a hit but would like improve it. What water additions should I make?
Blonde ale that will be secondary on strawberries
6 gallon batch
7lbs pils
1lbs 4 oz of wheat
1lbs of cara
1lbs of flaked corn
1oz cascade @ 60
.5 saaz @ 20
.5 saaz @ 15
saf 05
What type of Cara, Steve? 10L, 20L? And what's the volume of your strike water? And that's 6 gallons in the fermenter?
It should be noted you'll need lactic Acid & we don't have that at the BH any longer (or at least to my knowledge)
Sorry Brandon CARA-pils/ Dextrine
Strike will be 13 Quarts batch sparge with 13 quarts. Yes 6 in the fermenter. Actually doing a 12gallon batch but divided #s into 2 to make it easier.
I believe I have some Lactic at home
2 ways to do this: Non fancy (just lactic) & Fancy (gypsum, calcium chloride, & lactic).
Non fancy:
3.8ml Lactic Acid to your mash + 0.6ml Lactic per gallon of sparge water
Fancy:
MASH: Gypsum: 1.0 grams | Calcium Chloride: 0.8 grams | Lactic Acid: 3.2ml
SPARGE: 0.6ml Lactic per gallon of kettle
KETTLE (add these minerals to your kettle after you've sparged. This is a seperate addition on top of the minterals added to mash): Gypsum: 1.9 grams | Calcium Chloride: 1.5 grams
Thanks Brandon! I think I'll go fancy. Did you use Brun water to come up with this?
Yes sir! Let me know if you have any other questions (PM me on Slack for a quicker response).