5 Ways Honey Pale Ale

brewing

In light of a tasting of Dugges’ imperial stout that was split into a number of curated batches, each taken on by a member of staff, we elected to try something similar. We brewed a base pale ale with NZ hops and then gave 5l to each of our 4 main brewers, as we have a larger brew length than that we left the rest as a nice NZ pale ale. The only aim for each was to create something unique involving honey.

The image above is a honey seeker from an 8000-year-old cave painting in the Araña Caves in Spain.

Grain Bill

  • 6.5kg Pale Ale Malt (2-Row)
  • 1.25kg Amber Malt
  • 0.5kg Torrified Wheat

Mash Temp: 66.5 Celsius

Liquor to Grist: 2.5 : 1 (Approx.)

Boil

Boiled for 90 minutes, with the following fun additions:

  • 60mins 50g Summer (6.42AA)
  • 5mins 50g Summer (6.42AA)
  • 5mins 50g Pacific Gem (13.9AA)

Post-Boil

1) 25 Litres fermented with Liberty Bell (dried yeast).

OG: Unknown

FG: 1.013

At the end of primary fermentaiton, Liberty Bell was dry-hopped with:

50g Progress (6.65AA)

50g Pacific Gem (13.9AA)

2) 18 Litres fermented with Empire Ale (dried yeast).

OG: Unknown

FG: Unknown

Batch Additions

Batch 1 - James

  • 50g Dried lavender flowers
  • 1 Jar of aromatic lavender honey

Batch 2 - Euan

  • 100g Silver Moonlight white pu erh tea
  • 1 Jar of multiflower honey

Batch 3 - Sam

  • Several fistfulls of dried elderberries
  • 25g Meadowsweet
  • Turned the rest of the elderberry pack (500g originally) into syrup with honey (cheap) and poured that in

Batch 4 - Gav

  • As yet undecided

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