Batch 4

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Intent: Lemon biscuit blonde ale.

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

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

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°C. Mashed for one hour, lautered. Started the boil. 50 minutes, then hops in. 10 minutes, then flameout.

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

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

Bottled with 1 teaspoon of table sugar per liter.

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.