Sunday, June 9, 2013

Texas Blonde Ale

We recently visited Austin and had our fair share of the local Fireman's 4.  It's not going to win any awards, but it is an easy drinking summer beer.  And my wife really enjoyed it.  So I thought I would brew up a similar batch.  I made this one as a second mash with the Sour Peach Ginger Ale and I think I am just about done with the double all-grain batches.  It is too much of a pain with all of the pumps and hoses going around.  I think I will still do two brews in a session, but I will  make the first one an extract brew while the mash is recirculating on the other.  I have really liked the last two extract beers that I brewed.  My buddies Shawn and Chris helped again as I scrambled to work around the pump that stopped working and came up short on mash runnings.  I sparged some more to make it up and had to boil down some more to hit the gravity numbers.  Like I said, I think I am done with trying to pull off two all grain brews on my system.

Grains
3# Vienna
2.25 flaked maize
3# 6 row

Hops
1 oz Brewer's Gold at 60

Mash at 150

Wyeast Kolsch Ale 2565

No water adjustments

6.1g collected at 1030
4.5 post boil at 1041
64.7% efficiency
Target OG 1042

3 comments:

  1. This beer was awesome. The kolsch yeast really shines. I will definitely make this one again. I may use this as a base for the Carton Boat Beer clone.

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