Rocky Point Artisan Brewers

Our malt arrived on time for our Saturday brew. Yuri, Mike, and I met yesterday morning at the brewery and found that our starter was stalled (not uncommon when working with liquid yeast in my experience). We decided to go with our trusty dried yeast (always keep some of that on hand). We brewed up Batch #1 of a GSA series (golden strong ale). Our wives have requested something like Duvel or Local 1 and we’re trying to please.

We went with mostly pilsner malt, some wheat, some aromatic malt and enough table sugar to boost the gravity from 1.062 to 1.070. We bittered with cascade (6.0% alpha acid) to get 30 IBU. Mike thought 30 IBU was too high for a GSA. Hey, we’ll see. Once the beer has conditioned, it might be just right.

Also, we took some of the wort and ran it into our small conical fermenter that has an active cake of lager yeast. The idea is to make a light bodied, golden strong lager and see how that tastes. We’re aiming for something dry. I’ll let you know how it turns out.

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 6th, 2009 at 8:48 am and is filed under the cottage brewer. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.