2018-11-03-session-neipananas.md

🍍 Session NEIPAnanas

📝 Session NEIPA with pineapple (added at the end of the wort boil).

⚖️ Ingredient (6 gallons)

🌾 Grains

• 2 kg golden promise malt
• 2 kg pale malt
• 300 g wheat malt
• 300 g oat
• 100 g honey malt

🌿 Hops

• 15 g Warrior
• 93 g Simcoe
• 93 g Citra

🧫 Yeast

• Wyeast London Ale (5 gallons pack)

🍍 Extra

• 1 can (540 ml each) of mashed pineapple in juice

📖 Recipe

🚰 Mash

• Mash 18.5 L at 73 °C for 1 hour (it should stay at 67 °C)
• Drain into mash tun
• Add 15 L at 76 °C for 15 minutes into the mash
• Drain into mash tun

⏱ Boil

• Boil for 1 hour
• At 0 minutes, add Warrior hops
• At 45 minutes, add 1 Irish moss tablet
• At 55 minutes, add 31 g Simcoe and 31 g Citra
• At 59 minutes, add the pineapple can
• At 60 minutes, add 31 g Simcoe and 31 g Citra

⚗️ Fermentation

• Cool down to 20 °C
• Syphon into carboy
• Add yeast and gently mix

🌵 Dry hop

• After 2 days of active fermenting, dry hop with 31 g Simcoe and 31 g Citra

🗓 Timings

• Brewing: 2018-11-03
• Dry hop: 2018-11-07
• Bottling: 2018-12-04
• Pretasting: 2018-12-14
• Tasting: 2018-12-17

😋 Tasting

Smells like pineapple, but really dry (as in not sweet at all). Good hoppy taste without being overwhelmingly bitter, with some hop fruity notes. Very light (guessing 3.5 to 4.5 percent), super easy to drink. Makes for a perfect refreshing and thirst-quenching sport beer.

Would have liked it to have more pineapple character. Hoping for the Session NEIPAnanas Impériale with dry hopped pineapple will bring this.