Blonde Ale Recipe help ....

[leewink]

... Also, I want to use a polyclar chill haze preventative, can I add this to the final fermenter stage, that with finings, just want a nice universal clear beer

[pantsmachine]

I am a big fan of less is more regarding additives. The only things i add are a campden tablet for chlorine and a protafloc tablet 10 minutes before end of boil. A link below to a light coloured beer i made turned out ok. IMHO if you get your boil and cool down right and give it time there's no need for more additives. If times pressing or absolute clarity to the eye fair enough.

http://jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopi ... 4&start=45

[leewink]

Like the link chap a nice looking drop right there, and that glass looks just sweet

I can understand your point on clarity of beer and the needs to or not to add finings, I just like the "hold it up to the light" test

Placed my order now for some more bits, boiler, ferms, 25ltr bucket, tubing, wort chiller (went with the copper coil jobby) ...... and a shedload of brown 500ml p.e.t bottles to start off with till I can grab some better "swing toppers".

Were getting there now, another order in about a week or so, for odds and sods, and ingredients ..... then its beer time baby LOL

Im still faffing on what to make first, I have the book british real ale 3rd ed. and a fine book it is too recipe on page 130, golden delicious .... does look just that

I think i'll just go with it, can always run another batch of something else after, it does look a relatively cheap ingredients list to, i'm not really fussed on that tbh, but I can build my "different grain bags stash" over time, how long can you keep grain, im thinking of putting them in a sealed airtight box, like clear sandwich boxes etc ?

[leewink]

... Also your linked beer, did you fridge it first ? just intrigued as to who may or may not fridge thats all, no flames pls

... Incase you havent got this book btw, the base grain is pale maris otter 3kg with 125g of sugar, 22g challenger and 7g styrian golding hops.

Only thing, it doesnt suggest yeast type for it, I want to primarily go with the white labs vials, can you suggest what you'd use please in this type of beer from white labs, gonna get them from H+G, maybe some dry types too just for backup etc.

[pantsmachine]

That particular bottle had 1 hour in the fridge. I'm not a big fan of room temp beer. God made fridges for a reason, just ask Homer J Simpson! On liquid yeasts i did have a dabble through a few but i am such a grip that when 1 failed and another took ages to get going i went back to dried yeast.

My current fave is US05 which does not really lend much to the beer in the way of yeast flavour but it flocs and attenuates well enough for me. Tried a couple of similar batches to your plan. One with nottingham one with US05. For the cleaner taste its US05 for me. In saying all that if i was doing a Heffe i would go liquid.

P.S see the link at the bottom of this post and have a look around on Pauls site. Lots start on H&G and then go to Paul.

Good luck.

[leewink]

I understand and thanks, seems USo5 is the dry yeast to win then

I see the link .... pm coming.

cheers lee