Brew Number

17

Style

Draught NZD 13/1

Ingredients

Black Rock NZ Draft kit

0.5 kg light liquid malt from Welshpool

0.6 kg dextrose

200 g corn syrup

30 g hallertau hop pellets (8%)

Brewing notes

Boil 4 L water, add malt, sugar, corn syrup, bring to boil, add kit, bring to boil.  Add 15 g Hallertau hop pellets, boil 15 mins, take off heat, add 15 g Hallertau hop pellets, steep 15 minutes.  Add to 20 L cold water.  Added finings on 11 Jan.  Decanted through coffee filter on 13 Jan, bulk primed with 7 oz dextrose, bottled.

Tasting notes

Took a while for the hops to even out, but had a muddy taste which never really improved.  Not a great beer.

2 April – Caramel colour, clear, good carbonation with long lived lacy head, continuing to bubble in glass.  Muddy flavour reducing, flavour dominated by hops, quite tangy, reasonably rounded and long lived on the palate.  Spicy sort of aroma.  Not too bad, and probably better with age.

August – no muddy flavour, good hop finish, has become a nice beer.