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Bourbonnière Blonde

Bourbonnière Blonde

Special/Best/Premium Bitter • All Grain • 23 L

smash

An excellent McAuslan St-Ambroise Pale Ale clone.

August 15, 2005 pm 05:12pm

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Ingredients (All Grain23 L)

  • 5 kg Maris Otter Pale

    Maris Otter Pale

    An English thoroughbred and a favored choice of malt for many brewers. Simpsons' Maris Otter has a rich and nutty flavor and despite its small, berry size has a strong husk. This malt delivers predictable brewhouse performance with modest, yet consistent extracts. Brewers can expect good runoffs with clear wort.

  • 0.23 kg Crystal Malt 80°L

    Crystal Malt 80°L

    Body and Richness. Distictive Nutty flavor and or sweet, smooth caramel flavor and a red to deep red color. For porters, old ales.

  • 0.23 kg Munich Malt

    Munich Malt

    Sweet, toasted flavor and aroma. For Oktoberfests and malty styles

  • 0.2 kg Wheat Flaked

    Wheat Flaked

    Belgian White Ale(wit), other specialty beers.

  • 30 g East Kent Goldings - 5.4 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    East Kent Goldings

    Mild, slightly flowery.

  • 7.5 g Centennial - 9.9 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Centennial

    Aromatic but acceptable for bittering. Medium aroma with floral and citrus tones. Good in medium to dark ales.

  • 30 g Fuggle - 3.7 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min

    Fuggle

    Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.

  • Wyeast 1056 American Ale™

    Wyeast 1056 American Ale™

    Used commercially for several classic American ales. This strain ferments dry, finishes soft, smooth and dean, and is very well balanced.

Notes

For best results, conduct a very hot mash (160F), this produces a very sweet & mellow beer. I dry hopped with Fuggle (1 oz) in the secondary ferm.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 8 - English Pale Ale

Subcategory: B - Special/Best/Premium Bitter

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.044 1.040 - 1.048
Terminal Gravity: 1.010 1.008 - 1.012
Color: 11.8 SRM 5 - 16
Alcohol: 4.4% ABV 3.8% - 4.6%
Bitterness: 38.8 IBU 25 - 40

Discussion

smash

One of the best I brewed!

2005-08-15 5:27pm

I am really happy with how this batch turned out. I usually mash at 150F but for this batch I mashed at hotter temperature (160-165F) by mistake and it turned out soo good I will certainly do it again. The aroma, body and flavour reminds the excellent St-Ambroise pale ale from McAuslan, although it came out a bit more reddish.

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