BIAB #3 Pilgrim Fathers

[Valley Commando]

Pilgrim Fathers
Blonde Ale

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 26.0
Total Grain (kg): 4.500
Total Hops (g): 60.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.038 (°P): 9.5
Final Gravity (FG): 1.010 (°P): 2.6
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 3.73 %
Colour (SRM): 5.0 (EBC): 9.9
Bitterness (IBU): 27.2 (Average)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 70
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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4.500 kg Maris Otter Malt (100%)

Hop Bill
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25.0 g Pilgrim Leaf (10.4% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1 g/L)
35.0 g East Kent Golding Leaf (3% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Aroma) (1.3 g/L)

Misc Bill
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2.0 g Irish Moss @ 10 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 66°C for 70 Minutes.
Fermented at 18°C with Safale US-05


Recipe Generated with BrewMate

Putting this one up here for the record: I have my parents coming over in Mid Jan and needed something to serve up for my Dad to drink! Brewday was Boxing day, and it was smooth as clockwork. Not used to working with US 05, a top fermenting yeast: blown airlock off with the amount of krausen! Top cropped to save yeast for next brew. So far so good, tastes nice on sample. Airlock going like the clappers still....

[simple one]

I quite like Pilgrim for bittering and flavour. I would say it's a pretty underrated hop.

[Valley Commando]

I agree: to my taste Pilgrim has a good hop flavour with a fine "smoky" hint that I cant quite describe. Gives the beer a nice bite. I even prefer it to Goldings, but I have Goldings to use up, and in all honesty the Pilgrim will drown them out because it has a much more "forward" flavour. Yummy!

[Valley Commando]

I should also mention: I had available 2010 Fuggles, 2011 Citra, 2010 Nelson Sauvin and 2011 Northdown hops in my fridge, and I still reached for the Pilgrim: just the nicest hop smell of the lot. That may tell any Pilgrim doubters something!

[Bribie]

Looks like a nice easy drinking session ale, along the lines of the Old Boddingtons, Stone's Bitter etc before they shafted them all. I see you are using BrewMate and as an Aussie I apologise for the way it describes hop "leaf". personally I wouldn't feed hop LEAF to anyone other than a goat, really they should change that to flowers which is what they are.

[Valley Commando]

Yeah, I like nice, fizzy easy drinking pale beers a lot. I like to drink a bottle or two of chilled, refreshing beer of an evening as a regular habit to unwind after the day, but I dont want to get mullered with a high level of alcohol with that kind of habit. I do want a load of balanced flavour though! I cant stand high ABV beers: 5.5% is at the limit of what tastes ok to drink to me. 6%+ is plain nasty! I am a lightweight and need lightweight beer! I figure you get all the flavour, and thats really what I like, not so much the hangover!

Brewmate is the business! Great fun to play with the ingredients. I do think there needs better documentation of the No-chill option though, and depending on whether you choose Aroma hop or Boil hop it gives different IBUs, which is somewhat confusing. I have it nailed for my process now but there must be plenty of users out there with the wrong options checked getting wrong bitterness level.

Next beer is likely to be a Citra pale ale brewed when my dad is over as a demonstration of the system to him. I am planning on enough torrified wheat to give a head you can stick a cherry on

[Valley Commando]

Airlock activity well and truly over, I think this has now fermented out. The only problem is the blasted US 05 krausen wont drop. I am going to have to be super careful and rack it from under the krausen layer. And I have next to no bottles left to bottle it into from generously giving a load of beers away to mates, and the swines returning the empties to the shop for the refund....that 8 cent refund per swingtop is no use to me when I have bottling to be done! At this rate I am going to be skipping bottling and serving straight from the syphon tube!

[jonnyt]

Bizzare, my current brew using US-05 had had the Krausen completely go after 5 days fermentation

[Valley Commando]

The krausen is a good two inches thick and rather brown and yeasty, apparently its a fairly common occurrence with US 05 though it is the first time I have seen it.

[Valley Commando]

Cold crashed the FV by lugging it outside to sit overnight in the pissing rain. A combination of stirring things up by moving the FV and an overnight low of 2 Celcius did the trick. Krausen has now settled, and the beer is looking clear as a bell. Will be bottling tonight!

[jonnyt]

6 days in mines gone from 1.052 to 1.010 with little bubbles.
I'm going to wait till next week to bottle, tastes promising

[Valley Commando]

Just racked to my bottling bucket, but stirred the yeast up a bit: I must buy a racking cane, or install a tap in this FV! I was thinking about keeping the yeast cake, but No free time to brew for a few weeks, and I want to go back to S04 anyway for my next brew.
Tastes good; clean, balanced, floral aroma. Hydrometer 1.008 at room temp, which I am happy with!
So gonna bottle and chill the hell out of the bottles to try and drop a little more sediment.

[Goulders]

I used us-05 in my SNPA clone and the yeast was thick like yours. It sank after about 10 days but clears very well in a bottle.

[Valley Commando]

All now bottled, managed 24L out of the batch. On a whim I made a hop tea with 15 g Citra and chucked it in before bottling. Wow, big aroma, just a nice extra zing to what was already a nice floral, summery pale ale. I want big carbonation with this one: put 155 g of sugar dissolved in the Citra tea, should give me the fizz I am after!

[Valley Commando]

Wow, a week in the bottle and the character has changed completely. Floral notes now almost absent, huge hop nose and seriously nice strong hop flavour: probably one of the hoppiest brews I have done. Carbonation spot on for what I want! Quite a lot of body: underlying sweetness despite the low FG. Still cloudy as hell: awful chill haze. Gonna cold crash it again, this time to 0C. Dad arrives Thursday: hope he approves!