light session ale?

[delboy]

Thinking of brewing up one more batch of beer for the xmas peroid, im going to pitch onto the fullers yeast again but this time im going to do a lighter sessional ale than the london prides i've been doing lately.

MO 4 Kg
Crystal 60 EBC 150g
wheat 100g

mash at 66-67 C

Invert sugar 640g

Im going to hop with goldings and challenger to about 20-25 IBU (copper hops).

Then 10g of golding 15 mins

and 10g of goldings 0 min


I know its quite a lot of malt for a session beer but my efficency with my latest bags of MO have been crap, if my efficency does jump back up i'll water it down a bit.

Any suggestions, what sort of turnaround time could i be looking at for supping this (the london prides have been drinkable very quickly).

Or has any one got any other good quick maturing session beers that would work well with the fullers yeast.

Oh one last thing a lot of this will probably be going through a beer engine, would i need to up the late hops?

[delboy]

Thanks for the input DaaB, i like the idea of upping the wheat to 300g and dropping the MO a bit.

I think also i'll drop the invert from 640g down to whatever i happen to have in the big tin of golden syrup in my cupboard (probably about 250g if that).

I see what you mean about a quick turn around beer probably not being suitable for a beer engine. I will keg this in a corny and carb it up. But i was also thinking that i if i wanted to dispense a few pints through the beer engine for novelty reasons i could do what jim did. Put a gallon from the keg into a placcy barrel with a few grams of fresh hops to give it a bit more zing.

[Andy]

I've used a beer engine to dispense and not noticed a downgrade in flavour. I don't use a sparkler though is that what you're talking about re: affecting the beer ?