I want a beer that is very low alcohol to have one or two with dinner whilst preserving full flavor. Despite identified batch size, will be diluting wort with top off water to get final ABV in at 2.5%, so looking for OG of 1.025.
Grains: NW pale ale malt for base, 10% aromatic malt to have some level of malt presence, 5% carapils for head retention since I'm mashing on the low end.
Hops: Using a modified hop schedule from Breakside recommendations identified in Secrets of Master Brewers along with dry hop schedule from Russian River Double IPA article from July/August 2009 Zymurgy
Yeast: Wyeast 1056 as I have it on hand and want the hops to shine.
Water profile is Amber dry
I am performing this one as a no-sparge, so I'm not sure what efficiency I'll hit, though I'm guessing 55% based on my last brew measurements. As such, I will mash grains in 3.25 gallons of water with project runoff of 3 gallons and top off with adjusted distilled water to hit preboil volume of 6.5 gallons. I have leftover Belgian Candi sugar that I'll use to supplement points, if needed.
Everything is the same as before except the strange bitterness at the tail end has subsided to allow the malt to be more present. This is a much better beer now. Perhaps the dry hopping imparted some bad bittering qualities that, normally, a maltier beer is able to mask. I would give this 3.5/5 were more star levels available. The maltiness can definitely stand to be improved and I think incorporating a Vienna or Munich malt, even a Victory if color is not an issue, would make this beer much better. The aromatic malt can't carry this.
Pours light yellow with half a finger of foam that lingers. Aroma is light Citra hops and slight bready yeast. Flavor starts with Citra hops and then develops into a bready malt with a nondescript bitterness, nothing is too profound though. Body is a little dense, just fine, and some nucleation sharpness. Not a bad beer but I don't care too much for the flavor, needs more hop presence and malt. More hops is easy to correct but I'll have to think about what malt I'd use to strengthen that characteristic. It tastes bigger than 3%, so I feel successful there, but I would like a beer that I care for more; I wouldn't buy more than a pint of this at a bar.
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