Mosaic Pale Ale

This beer is a nod to one of my favorite new beers, Two Brothers Sidekick Extra Pale Ale.  I am pretty certain the hops in that beer are Mosaic and the new experimental hop #483 from the Yakima Valley hop breeding program.  However, since I can't get my hands on the experimental hop, all Mosaic hops will have to suffice.  I brewed this batch in tandem with the all Centennial pale ale.

Grains
3 lbs Pilsen DME
3 lbs Muntons Extra Light DME
1 lb c-20 steeped to 170

15 min boil
2.5 oz Mosaic at 15
1 oz Mosaic at 5
.5 oz Mosaic at 0
1 oz Mosaic dry hop two weeks

US-05 at 66 ambient, raise to 68 for 2 weeks, then dry hop for two weeks

Results
6.25 gallons pre boil at 1052
5.9 gallons post at 1056

Water Adjustments
2 tsp gypsum

Centennial Pale Ale

With 4th of July coming up, I felt like I owed it to my country to brew a centennial pale ale, so I did.  Just like that.

Grains
3 lbs Pilsen DME
3 lbs Muntons Extra Light DME
1 lb c-40 steeped to 170

15 min boil
2.5 oz Centennial at 15
1 oz Centennial at 5
.5 oz Centennial at 0
1 oz Centennial dry hop two weeks

US-05 at 66 ambient, raise to 68 for 2 weeks, then dry hop for two weeks

Results
6 gallons pre boil at 1052
5.6 gallons post at 1056

Water Adjustments
2 tsp gypsum

"Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes."

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

Sour Ginger Peach Ale

This recipe piqued my interest.  I have a growing affection for sour beers.  I like peach and I like ginger, so I thought I would give this one a try.  It should make a nice late summer beer.  I brewed this beer with my buddies Shawn and Chris.  Brew day was fun, but one of my pumps crapped out again so I spent a lot of time making adjustments and plumbing changes to get around the pump failure.  It was nice to have both friends lend an extra hand as I was scrambling to fix things.  I hit all of my numbers and the yeast took off nicely by the next morning.

Grains
9# 2 row
1# flaked wheat
.5# acid malt

Hops
1 oz Progress at 60 min
1/2 oz ginger root at 15 mins

Mash at 150

WL AHS Persica Ale Yeast 299

2oz peach flavoring at kegging

7g collected at 1042
5.5 g post boil at 1052
75.1% efficiency

Water adjustment: .5 epsom