Who's Brewing 5/16-18

5# wheat malt
3.25# pilsener

2# acid malt after sacc rest

So, 18.6%

I popped the first one Saturday and it was a decent beer, but no real sourness. If anything it might give a sensation similar to putting your tongue on a 9V battery. Like I said before, I just went straight from a BYO recipe. https://byo.com/stories/issue/item/2349-gose

I did forget to add additional lactic acid at bottling which would have given more of a twang. Good stuff learned through this though, basically the amount of salt and its effect, I would recommend 1 oz rather than .75, and a general idea of what coriander tastes like, in this case it was nice and citrusy. The beer itself is alright, but I do wish it was more sour... which is something the second half of it has no problem with... super excited about it based on the uncarbed beer I tasted yesterday after bottling.

 

I know it was very long ago, but just wondering how much juniper you used and how it came out? I am making a recipe for a Juniper Pale Ale as well, and never used juniper berries before. Thinking of throwing an oz in the last 20min and then another oz in primary, and using some nice earthy hops like German Merkur & maybe some more piney hops like Palisade.

 

Do you have a time machine to go back to May ;-)

 

Here's the recipe
https://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/tanker-a
It was a variation on a version that @AlCaponeJunior and I did. I preferred this version, the juniper and other spices meshed really well with the hops, and the malt was just sweet enough to give them a nice canvas to work on.

 

Also, the quality of the juniper berries makes a big difference.

 

Awesome, thanks for that!

 

that was a good one. I'm gonna make it again. I've been kinda out of it the past few months but the brewing is fixing to et back on track big time. Here's my version of it

alcaponejunior.wordpress.com juniper ale project with MrOH

 

I just picked up some juniper berries the other day...

 

I was just thinking that you've been away for a while. Must have be preceded by a thought on smash brews.

 

yeah I'm about to move my brewing operation to a closer spot and delve into it with a buddy who wants to get into it. Should result in multiple brews per month with full freezers at all times.