Kolsch (type beer)

Home brewed Kolsch (-ish, made in Manchester)

I brewed this a few weeks ago and forgot to add some Irish Moss, it's still a bit hazy (15/11/16) but tastes good. I conditioned it for three weeks in the cold store at a friendly local micro and since then it's been further conditioned in my shed. I first tried it after bringing it back from the brewery and wasn't too happy as it had a bit of an apple flavour which fortunately has now faded after 2½ weeks of shed conditioning. Hopefully a few more weeks will clear it completely, standard home brew rules apply: if at first it doesn't taste right, leave it for a few weeks. It probably won't taste any worse.

Recipe (BIAB):

• Mash for 1 hr at 67°C
• Boil for 60 mins
• Mash water volume 24lt
• Pilsner malt 3kg
• Carapils 375g
• Spalt 33g (at start)
• Spalt 17g (10 mins)
• Spalt 15g (at end)
• Hallertauer MF 23g (at end)
• WL029 Kolsch yeast

Fermenter volume: 17lt

OG: 1.044 (a bit lower than expected - should have been around 1.050)

FG: 1.010

ABV: 4.5%

Brew date: 20/09/2016

Bottled: 04/10/2016