Blonde Ale Recipe

Never had the beer myself, but there's this: https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/382854/eureka-citra

 

I might actually make this. I don't know why they are calling this a blonde though.

 

Because blondes have more fun!?!

Cheers!

 

This could be considered a more fun blonde but I've never seen a blonde with oats. If I make this I may leave them out. I don't want a pale ale disguised under a false name.

 

As a homebrewer you can do whatever you want.

I would 'remind' you that Tree House Eureka is a so called 'NE' Pale Ale and therefore flaked oats are there for a reason: to 'up' the protein content of the beer.

I was gifted a can of Tree House Eureka in the past and I discussed it in a NBS thread (see link below).

Cheers!

@chipawayboy

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/new-beer-sunday-week-631.500050/#post-5356265

 

I wouldn’t put flaked oats in a blonde ale either. I have used golden naked oats in one that turned really nice though.

 

If you’re making this for a competition and want to enter it as a blonde ale I would not put flaked oats or Citra in it. If you make something along that recipe posted I would enter it as a pale ale.

 

You could call it a blonde ale if you wanted. But it wouldn't really be to style.

Also, in a BJCP competition, the judges are not told what ingredients you used (for most categories). What matters are appearance, aroma, flavor, and mouthfeel. Oats could impact some of those attributes.

 

I've had flaked wheat beers come out crystal clear but never oats. I also dont fine or filter so maybe that would give a crystal clear look with oats.

 

The blonde I made last year had Fuggle and Hull Melon and came out fantastic.

 

Props on the fuggles.

 

The BJCP guidelines seem to allow basically any hop variety, but expect no more than moderate levels of aroma and flavour. On the other hand, specific sorts of character might do better or worse in practice, I don't know.

I'd also have thought that the use of golden promise rather than two row in that recipe would probably push you out of classic brewed-to-style blonde territory?

I'd still drink it, though.

 

Hops shouldn't really be prominent in a Blonde Ale. My base blonde recipe uses Cascade for bittering and an ounce of Czech Saaz (usually leaf) at 15 minutes. (5.1 gallon recipe, 21 IBUs total).

 

I bottled one last Nov that had wyeast 1056,2-row,gold promise,honey malt,carapils and acid malt plus motueka and dry hopped with some el-dorado(5.56 abv 22ibus). Tasted even better 5 months later.

 

Sounds tasty. @Jos3h2r I wouldn't recommend dry-hopping a competition Blonde Ale, or if you do, exercise restraint. The BJCP guidelines say "May have a low to medium hop." And I would say that "medium" may be stretching it a little compared to judges' expectations about what a Blonde Ale is. As a disclaimer, it's been a while since I've entered a Blonde Ale, and expectations do change. Also, I see you are in Panama, so if expectations of what a Blonde Ale is are different there, YMMV.