Made with organic English hops, organic malts, and an English yeast, this is a medium-bodied example of the English Pale Ale style
Brewed on May 22, 2011 and bottled on June 7, 2011
This is a bottle-conditioned beer, carbonated in the bottle.
Recipe
8 lbs. Organic 2-Row Malt
2 lbs. Oraniic Munich Malt
0.5 lbs. Caramel Malt 10 L
0.50 oz Simcoe [11.00 %] (60 min)
0.50 oz EK Goldings [7.00 %] (20 min)
1.00 oz EK Goldings [7.00 %] (10 min)
1.00 oz Fuggles [6.00 %] (5 min)
Fuller's Yeast
Mash Temperature: 152 F
Fermented at 62 F
For the Beer Geeks
Original Gravity: 1.052
Final Gravity: 1.010
Bitterness: 38 IBU
5.4% ABV
171 calories per 12 ounces
Summer Solstice
Pale Ale
This beer was brewed with yeast that a friend, Jamie Wika, gave me. Its the Fuller's strain - named for the English brewery He had used it in a batch (a porter I think) and gave me a jar of the yeast slurry. I kept the fermentation temperatures low-ish on this batch, 62 degrees, so it would have a relatively 'clean' flavor profile. When it was done, I harvested, washed and am storing some of the yeast in de-oxygenated water in the fridge, to use in an upcoming India Pale Ale batch.
