[riceral]

This just may end up being my new favorite beer! My jalapeño blonde has been one of a few top choices. This is my 5.25 gal recipe:

6.5 lbs pale ale
1.5 lbs white wheat
1 lb C-60
.25 lb Midnight Wheat
.25 lb starter
.25 oz Warrior (15.9%) @ 60 min FWH
7 roasted jalapeños @ 10-15 mins
7 fresh jalapeños in 50/50 Everclear as extract for bottling day
US-05

1.054/1.010
5.7%
19 IBUs
21 SRM
80% efficiency

Could you explain the 0.25 pounds starter?

[rodwha]

Did you use a smoke wood or simply let the charcoal smoke the grain (or is it a stick burner — I see it’s an offset)?


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I use wood. ~90% oak and 10% mesquite.

I do use charcoal in the beginning to get the wood started, but that was long gone by then.

[rodwha]

This just may end up being my new favorite beer! My jalapeño blonde has been one of a few top choices. This is my 5.25 gal recipe:

6.5 lbs pale ale
1.5 lbs white wheat
1 lb C-60
.25 lb Midnight Wheat
.25 lb starter
.25 oz Warrior (15.9%) @ 60 min FWH
7 roasted jalapeños @ 10-15 mins
7 fresh jalapeños in 50/50 Everclear as extract for bottling day
US-05

1.054/1.010
5.7%
19 IBUs
21 SRM
80% efficiency

Could you explain the 0.25 pounds starter?

Though I use US-05 it’s saved yeast. I make a 1.5 qt starter with 6 oz of light DME. 1 qt and 4 oz is for the beer and the pint is for the jar to save. I typically use a whisk to aerate it and keep it in my fermentation chamber. These are a bit more than 24 hrs on up to 36 hrs.

I don’t see the point in making a starter and getting the yeast hungry and excited to chill and decant. Plus why waste the DME?

I used to use WLP-001 and saved it too. But I ditched it all and went to US-05 as I was to be moving and needed to start over again anyway. What I found was slightly better attenuation and flocculation than WLP-001 so I’ve just stuck with it.

[AzBruin]

Ditto on the US-05, but I just ordered some of the Norwegian yeast from NB. Please keep us updated on your mesquite malts, I live in southern Arizona, and am constantly cutting the mesquite back to keep the yard halfway clear!