====== Batch 4 ======

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**Intent**:  Lemon biscuit blonde ale.

===== Grain Bill =====

  * 2250g 2-row barley malt.
  * 1800g Golden Promise malt.

==== Non-Grain Ingredients ====

  * 28g Lemondrop hops
  * 11.5g SafAle US-05

===== Process =====

14 litres of strike water in the large kettle;  7 litres in the smaller one.  Grain split into 2700g and 1350g parcels.  Strike water heated to 68\[de]C.  Mashed for one hour, lautered.  Started the boil.  50 minutes, then hops in.  10 minutes, then flameout.

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Taste test:  Biscuity;  the lemondrop is still hiding in the back.

Cooled to room temperature, put it in the carboy, and pitched the yeast.

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Bottled with 1 teaspoon of table sugar per liter.

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===== Result =====

A pleasant light blonde.  The citrusy aftertaste was almost lost.  Carbonation failed, because I think my yeast was too dead by the time I started it, so it's flat as a board.

Edit:  No.  It was the seals.  I have since updated the seals, and hopefully, those bottles should now do well.

Edit:  And now I have bottle bombs. The glass is insufficiently thick. Fifty bucks down the tubes.