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we're brewing a beer and you're wearing
a hat I am wearing a hat a cat hat yeah
you are a cat in a cat hat well I got a
cryptic email okay all it said was
crushable low ABV lager
yeah cat pee cat pee we're brewing a beer
for a wedding for my friends Dave and
Cassie okay they're getting hitched and
Dave and Cassie have two really old cats
and these cats are famous for pissin on
everything gross uh-huh yeah so this is
gonna be a cat piss wedding lager for my
buddy David that's funny
mm-hmm what kind of hops are we gonna be
using the Nelson Sauvin is that how you say that
Sauvin Sauvin Sauvin Sauvin?
I go Sauvin New Zealand hops mm-hmm
known for their sort of fruit punchy
catty catty aromas cat piss aromas some
would say so I wore my cat hat I wore my
hat hat check that out mm-hmm that was airbrushed
so we've learned two things about our
audience yeah
hat critics okay they did not like Kyle's hat
discerning haberdashers all apparently they all had better style sense than any of us
and B they hate when we brew low ABV
beers okay all right well let's brew a
lager in silly hats wanna let's do a 4 percent beer
I think we're reading this feedback loud
and clear
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so that's our four and a half pounds of
base malt bingo and then what do we
need some acid malt
we've got acid malt six ounces
this is like what milled uranium looks like
right you want to grind or do you want to pour
I'll pour yeah how's that sound
okay
so we're basically ready to go we just
grinded our grains yeah and let's get
after it let's get after it
mash paddle you wanna dump or do you want to stir
ooh I'll stir you dump
Alright
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we're gonna do a quick pH reading okay I
just want to make sure we're in that
like 5.2 - 5.3 range
yeah yeah yeah
that's a little high Ross
pH is such
a cruel mistress man yeah I I just probably
need a little more of that acid malt mm-hmm
it didn't bring it down as far as I was
hoping so I'm just gonna add a little
lactic acid and then I like to do the
scientific approach yeah like that much
of a cap like a quarter cap
do a little spritz
fill this tube up we'll see what
the pH gods are saying
5.2 
if it's anywhere below 5.4 I'm fine
Oh
Oh
Ahh
Decent I'll call that good yeah
Ok, here we go
this should be a nice light one grain
Oh man 
there we go
Smells good
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so you want to crank crank this up to
100 yeah bring start getting it up to a boil
lid on
Cool
and then we'll bring her to a boil
yeah it's heating up and we're sitting
pretty
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get some hops out of the freezer
Nelson Sauvin
We're boiling?
We're boiling
.2
ounces of Nelson Sauvin hops
coming straight out of New Zealand like a loose
cannon
we're hoping for that cat pee here we go
boom and then 60 minute boil
alright I'll set the alarm
all right so
it's time to chill boils up so hose time
Ross
Kettle...
on
So it's 178 I've kind of found
that it will freefall a little bit further
a little bit further
all right we're gonna
add our Nelson Sauvin in the whirlpool
here
1.8 ounces
so right in the hop basket here
We'll do one for Dave
kitty Dave yeah uh-huh one for Dave's
kitty Wendy and then one for Cassie's
kitty Jules
put it right in there
meow meow meow mmm hops good so we'll
do that for 20 and then we'll chill it
down to
yeast pitching temps
in the bucket pump back on
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Star San everything all the time
making moves
before bed uh-huh Star San your face every
hour on the hour
I get up in the morning and I Star San
make coffee Star San
make breakfast Star San
so we're using the WLP 802
and uh 
lager yeast
lager yeast
check lager yeast
so I brought Go-Gurt enough to share with the
whole group today putting some
probiotics in here doesn't this look
delicious it does look good
doesn't that just look like
do another yeast flight
that's what they serve at White Labs
right just flights of yeast *laughs*
Oh yeah
so you put
the lid on a liddle bit and then you put
it on the ground
then you gotta aerate
Yes
You don't wanna
sixty seconds my friend
you pick a weird pose I like it
you don't like this oh you do like this
I do like it
it's how the kids are aerating these days
pitched aerated ready for the fermenter
tastes like wort it's gonna be great
I think it's gonna be real nice mm-hmm
Nice light crisp
fresh cat pee yeah what everybody wants
that's the move party
Pew!
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cheers cheers man
cat piss lager
mmm
just in time for Dave and
Cassie's wedding perfect yeah it was
probably one of the most sulfury yeah
lagers I've ever brewed its like a
egg factory
it was
dude I opened the fermenter after
like three days and I was just like oh my
god so it's been back in the keg for what now three four weeks probably at
least yeah it is now delicious it is
really good can be served with pride and
yeah the wedding's this weekend so very
stoked yeah man
Sulfur I feel like I get a
little bit on the nose but like nowhere
near kind of like the amount you would
expect mm-hmm in a pilsner
from yeah from just like a clean lager
has a little bit of that
aroma but it sort of dovetails with the bitterness from
the hop definitely get some of those
catty aromas we were going for
on the nose
got some of that just sort of
astringent bitterness and that real kind
of subtle some would say like juicy fruit
vibe others would say cat boxy vibe I'm
yeah to me it's more juicy fruit mm-hmm
I I could see the cat box
I think catty was originally used as
sort of like a pejorative to talk about
what people considered an off flavor
Right
and then people were like no I like that
like give me more of that Cat Cat it's uh 5%
yeah nice and easy
Which is I mean
It's gonna be what eighty degrees this
weekend it is the wedding is outdoors at
this little sort of like farmy type
venue down in Mills River
it's definitely hoppier than
like a traditional yeah pilsner or lager
mm-hmm from a bitterness standpoint from just a pure hop bitterness standpoint yeah it is
has more of that bitter hop character I wonder what
But it's not off the charts
It's not
it's under 17 IBUs if I just I
mean I would say 20 just based on like
guessing yes yeah that's just probably
it I love lagers it's what I order 90%
of the time yeah I don't brew enough of
them and I think a lot of it is just the
patience yeah just the waiting game
Cassie and Dave and their two cats Wendy
and Jules
congratulations prost skoll mazel and I will
see you at the reception pouring this
beer man perfect that's exciting
hell yeah that'll be fun thanks bro
Cheers! Cheers
