Saturday was once again brew day, and this time we brewed a new beer...The Full Mountie.
Whenever, I brew beer I try to push the envelope in one facet of the brew process, whether it be using fruit, smoked malt, strange yeast conditions, etc. During this brew I tried my hand at oaking. And most oaked beers are pretty big, so I decided to go with an imperial brown ale.
This brew was originally meant to be a Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Maple Brown Ale, which is humorously verbose. The aim was to create a 9-10% abv brown ale, fermented with maple syrup, aged over bourbon soaked oak cubes. The reason I say originally, is because the OG fell almost .015pts short, which means we'll be lucky to hit 7%.
Despite the low OG, I still plan to age this over oak, but probably for a shorter duration. I don't want the bourbon in the oak cubes to distort the beer too much, but I'm stubborn and don't want to leave the oak cubes sitting on my counter.
This brew day was another fairly straight forward affair (I'm obviously getting the hang of this). I have been having low volume yields recently, and made an effort to rectify that this time around. I gathered a little over 6.5 gals pre-boil, and ended with just over 5.0 gallons by the time I pitched my yeast. Finally...a full batch. However, I think this desire for volume affected the OG. I'm going to make some efficiency calculations and adjust my recipes accordingly. Hopefully, I can avoid missing OG targets in the future.
This brew was originally meant to be a Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Maple Brown Ale, which is humorously verbose. The aim was to create a 9-10% abv brown ale, fermented with maple syrup, aged over bourbon soaked oak cubes. The reason I say originally, is because the OG fell almost .015pts short, which means we'll be lucky to hit 7%.
Despite the low OG, I still plan to age this over oak, but probably for a shorter duration. I don't want the bourbon in the oak cubes to distort the beer too much, but I'm stubborn and don't want to leave the oak cubes sitting on my counter.
This brew day was another fairly straight forward affair (I'm obviously getting the hang of this). I have been having low volume yields recently, and made an effort to rectify that this time around. I gathered a little over 6.5 gals pre-boil, and ended with just over 5.0 gallons by the time I pitched my yeast. Finally...a full batch. However, I think this desire for volume affected the OG. I'm going to make some efficiency calculations and adjust my recipes accordingly. Hopefully, I can avoid missing OG targets in the future.
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