Single Hop Blonde Project

Chris Alvey · Post by **Chris Alvey** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:34 am

Thanks to Don's generous donation of a bag of Maris Otter, we're going to put it to good use and make 5 Blonde Ales each with a single hop in the name of experimentation and learning the characteristics of several hop varieties. These will be presented at the September meeting.

If you didn't win some malt at the meeting and you would still like to participate, please post your hop variety in this thread.

Recipe Guidelines
11 # Maris Otter
1# Carapils or Carafoam
25 IBU of a single hop split between a Bittering & Late addition
WLP001 / WY1056 / S-05 @ 68 degrees (ideally)

Single-infusion mash @ 152 degrees for 60 min.

Hops Chosen so far ...
Cascade
Centennial
Mt. Hood ?
Soriachi Ace
Sterling

(If these are wrong please post a correction)

sirgiovanni · Post by **sirgiovanni** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:13 am

awesome!

Chris Norrick · Post by **Chris Norrick** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:38 am

I'm in! Let me see what unusual hops I have in stock.

Chris Norrick · Post by **Chris Norrick** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:13 pm

I could do:

Santiam
Simcoe
Galena
New Zealand Hallertauer

Any preference?

Don · Post by **Don** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:09 pm

If you can use any of these for the experiment.
I have them in my freezer (all pellets)
3 oz. Cascade
2 oz. Centennial
6 oz. Challenger
2 oz. Chinook
5 oz. Fuggles
2 oz. Hallertauer Hersbrucker
3 oz. Horizon
3 oz. Liberty
4 oz. Northern Brewer
1 oz. Tettnang
3 oz. Williamette

JohnD · Post by **JohnD** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:51 am

Single hop ale w/ Sterling is in the fermenter OG 1.064

Chris Norrick · Post by **Chris Norrick** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:55 pm

I didn't win grain but I'll add another batch to the experiment. Probably Santiam hops. I'll plan to brew on the 10th or 17th. Depends on when I keg up the rye-wheat.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hops

Santiam

Chris Norrick · Post by **Chris Norrick** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:02 pm

Weather is looking good to brew this weekend!

Chris, who all won grain?

Chris Norrick · Post by **Chris Norrick** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:29 pm

SHB w/Santiam is in the fermenter. 1.048 OG

Chris Alvey · Post by **Chris Alvey** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:51 am

Centennial Blonde is in the fermenter ... I managed to short my water just a bit on the recipe and the little bit I was able to get into the test was too trubby to test accurately. I'm going to guess about 1.055.

JohnD · Post by **JohnD** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:50 pm

Sterling blonde is in bottles. Final gravity was1.012. That figures out to 6.8% ABV. 81% attenuation, that's really high for US5. Tasted good going into the bottles

Davin · Post by **Davin** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:27 am

The Surachi Ace is also in the fermentor, and bubbling awaya nicely. .4 oz at 60 and .7 oz at 10 SG at 1.054.

Davin · Post by **Davin** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:29 pm

There is a problem with the Sorachi Ace Blonde. Turns out i grabbde the wrong hops out of the freezer. I actually used Summit rather than sorachi ace.

I don't believe anyone else was using that one, and the aa's are comparable, so its not a total lose.

Dwayne_Delaney · Post by **Dwayne_Delaney** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:13 pm

Summit is one of my favorites.

Chris Alvey · Post by **Chris Alvey** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:58 am

A happy accident, I suspect.