2019-02-09-pample-mousse.md

🍊 Pample-mousse

📝 Grapefruit Brett saison.

Label: P

⚖️ Ingredient (6 gallons)

🌾 Grains

• 4.5 kg pilsner malt
• 500 g aromatic
• 500 g rye

🌿 Hops

• 50 g Fuggles

🧫 Yeast

• Escarpment Laboratories Ontario Farmhouse Ale Blend (5 gallons pack)

🍊 Extra

• 2 L of freshly pressed grapefruit 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 15 g Fuggles hops
• At 45 minutes, add 15 g Fuggles hops

⚗️ Fermentation

• Cool down to 20 °C
• Syphon into carboy
• Add yeast and gently mix
• After active fermentation, add the grapefruit juice

🗓 Timings

• Brewing: 2019-02-09
• Dry grapefruit: 2019-02-14
• Bottling: 2019-03-23
• Tasting: 2019-04-04

😋 Tasting

Smells like a Belgian beer, notes of grapefruit on the palate but not overwhelming. Some sourness. Lots of cereals in the mouth, good bitterness.

Feels like between 5.5 and 6.5 percent.