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What I really want to do is make another lager, but I need to wait for the weather to cool down a little, so I looked up some things I could try online and found that Jester King had posted their recipe for Noble king online. I love that beer and I decided to try to make something similar. I kept their malt bill mostly the same, but changed the hops around by replacing East Kent Golding with Hallertau Blanc and Fuggles with Tettnanger.

Nothing went particularly well with this entire experience and mostly due to lack of focus. I left my brew kettle open when I was draining first runnings into it, I dry hopped my beer after fermentation had completed and therefore oxidized the shit out of everything. Anyway, the end result is terrible and frustrating, though I did learn a lot. So there is that.

It’s not nothing to have worked through a lot of issues to get to something that was a pretty good beer before it turned out to be completely oxidized.

My Recipe.

My Notes.

My Readings.

What was notable about this brew session?
* Started using a new thermometer and figured out that my sparging has had lackluster results because the water has been too cold (155 instead of 170ish).
* Daily readings with the Anton Paar density meter. It’s the fucking bomb.
* Flavor and color were really great until the oxidation problem.

What pleasantly surprised me?
* Almost did my diacetyl rest at the correct time by being able to take daily gravity readings.

* Brew day got completely fucked up and I still made it to the end with something worthwhile.

Why can’t I officially call this my first good batch of beer?
* The final product turned out to be an oxidezed pile of shit. -- Need to make sure to dry hop with plenty of fermentation left in the future.

I’m going to make a Bock for the winter months. I’m excited about it and I’m finally going to start messing around with water ph stuff.