2019-01-27-fruithe.md

🦜 Fruithé

📝 Blond ale with tea (infused after active fermentation).

Label: T

⚖️ Ingredient (6 gallons)

🌾 Grains

• 5 kg pilsner malt
• 500 g wheat

🌿 Hops

• 50 g Celeia

🧫 Yeast

• Escarpment Laboratories Ardennes Ale (5 gallons pack)

🍃 Extra

• 150 g of tea (DAVIDsTEA green passionfruit)

📖 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 15 g Celeia hops
• At 45 minutes, add 15 g Celeia hops

⚗️ Fermentation

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

🌵 Dry hop

• After active fermentation, dry hop with the tea (dry tea)

🗓 Timings

• Brewing: 2019-01-27
• Dry tea: 2019-02-04
• Bottling: 2019-03-23
• Tasting: 2019-04-04

😋 Tasting

Incredibly powerful tea smell, intense taste of tea, it's like drinking a cold tea.

Should be around 5 percent of alcohol.