Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Rood Hout Flemish Red

It took way longer than it should have to do the write up for this beer. I brewed this back in mid-May with Michelle. I thought that I lifted the grain bill from the NHC 2010 Category 17: Sour Ale winner "Zed's Dead Red" by Remi Bonnart, but I must have read it wrong and changed a few things or used what I had on hand (that's what happens when I put off doing the write up for 3 months).

Rood Hout Flemish Red

OG 1.056 FG ???? ABV ???? IBU ~13.5 SRM 3.0

Assumed Efficiency: ??%
Target Volume: 6.25 gal
Target PBG: 1.046
Target OG: 1.055
Total Grain: 12.56 lbs.

27.8% - 3.5 lbs. Castle Pilsener
27.8% - 3.5 lbs. US Vienna Malt
27.8% - 3.5 lbs. ?????
04.6% - 0.56 lbs. CaraMunich I
04.6% - 0.56 lbs. White Wheat Malt
04.6% - 0.45 lbs. Special B
04.6& - 0.45 lbs. Aromatic Malt

0.70 oz. East Kent Goldings (6.1% AA) @ 60 min.

0.25 tsp Wyeast Yeast Nutrient @ 10 min.
1.00 oz Medium Toast French Oak Cubes

East Coast Yeast ECY02 - Flemish Ale
Jolly Pumpkin "La Roja" Dregs
Wyeast 3711 - French Saison

Carbon Filtered Waco Water

Mash at 154

Notes:
15 May 2011 - Brewed with Michelle. Missed mash temp by a few degrees. Mashed at 152 for 20 minutes. Sparged and collected 6.75 gal of 1.051 wort (Efficiency 75.3%. Boiled for 90 minutes at evaporation rate of 12% and yielded 6.15 gal of 1.056 wort. Chilled to 69 degrees and pitched ECY02 and JP dregs.

30 May 2011 - Gravity 1.040. Should add an attenuative yeast to help finish it out.

31 May 2011 - Pitched smack pack of Wyeast 3711 to help finish primary fermentation. I probably shouldn't have used something so attenuative, but that's all I had on hand.

04 August 2011 - First look at beer in a few months. Healthy looking pellicle has formed.

29 August 2011 - Gravity 1.003.



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