hey everybody
Ashley here from sexton-brewing.ca
and I'm here today with another homebrew
review so while back I just decided just
to brew a simple five gallon batch of a
blonde ale nothing super spectacular
just used 10 pounds of two row
I think zero point three ounces of
Magnum at 60 minutes just for bittering
as I normally do and then I used my
homegrown Hallertau that I had frozen in
my freezer from last year's harvest and
I used I think an ouce of that at 15
minutes and then an ounce at five
minutes and then I was it toss it into
the fermenter pitched some US-05 dry
yeast, no starter nothing like that just
pitched it right in original gravity was
I think 1.054 1.057 and it finished off
at 1.010 which gave us a final ABV of
5.7 with an IB of 24 now this isn't is
not that beer this is still the blonde
ale but I decided to do something a
little different what I did I drew off
one gallon of that blonde ale into a
small one gallon fermenter or one gallon
carboy and in it I added a bunch of
frozen blueberries anybody who knows me
or has been around me either digitally
or in person knows that not a big fan of
blueberries and beer I often find that
they come off pretty muted and don't
really add too much but I decided you
know what might as well plan it myself
and just make a blueberry beer cuz why
the hell not right so here we go this is
the blueberry blonde ale yeah I had the
the blueberries they're just frozen
blueberries nothing special about them I
didn't fresh pick things in my garden or
anything like that just frozen variety
so lets get it into a glass and see if we got
something that resembles a blueberry
beer
so yeah just uh yeah blonde ale it's
a relatively bland style and boring I
think when I I did that batches I just had an itch for doing something and
you know I just had those ingredients on
hand was pretty pretty easy to cobble
together so color on this is uh looks
very nice you know um it's not blue like
people would assume a blueberry beer
should be blueberry beer should never be
blue sort of has this purplish type of
hue to it I don't know how well it's
coming up on camera
clarity though for the beer it's very
nice you know you know a little a little
bit of chill haze but you know I can look
straight through that and see the other
side I bet you if it was
room-temperature
would be no chill haze, well obviously
it'd be no chill haze but yeah be able
to see straight through but I mean
overall it's pretty good-looking beer
you know got about two inches there or
two fingers of a fluffy white head tight
compact bubbles different sizes looks
pretty good so let's just get an aroma
so I definitely picked up some like
noble hop characteristics from the Hallertau well a little bit of spiciness to
it
nothing too vegetal just a sort of
something that comes across a little a
little zippy well not much else I'm not
getting blueberries or anything like
that on the nose maybe a touch of
residual sweetness or something like
that maybe a little something from the
two row maybe a little such a white
bread type of thing anyways visually it looks
fantastic smell it sort of smells the
parts or what I expect so let's get into
her Cheers
and as with most blueberry beers I'm let
down it's not a bad beer tastes like
slightly amped up blonde ale it's tough
when you're when you're using homegrown
hops you don't really know what the what
the alpha acids are so you're sort of
guessing
so the I'm guessing the Alpha acids on
this were a little bit high it
definitely comes across a little bit
more of a hoppier blonde ale I mean
it's not encroaching on like a pale ale
territory or anything like that but it's
a definitely sort of outside of the
style for a blonde ale but as for the
blueberries I mean other than color you
know and that's pretty generous with the
amount of blueberries I used you know
for a one gallon batch which isn't a
whole lot I think I added at least 2
cups of frozen blueberries there's
there's a fair amount but yeah I'm not
really picking up on the on the frozen
on the blueberries whatsoever now what I
will say is that I did a second variant
of this the same idea but in the second
batch I used mangoes so I'm really
interested to see how that one turns out
that's what I did the exact same day and
did this one so that one should be ready
soon all in all though I mean really for
an experimental beer I'm just taking
something that's relatively bland and
easy to put together and try to add some
zip to it I think it sort of did the
trick I mean it definitely made it a
great looking beer beautiful but as for
the blueberries adding any sort of
flavor or aroma to it sort of fell flat
so so yeah so there it goes my distaste for
blueberries and beer sorta continues
I'm not really surprised to be
completely honest but you know sometimes
for the sake of science you sort of got
to take a stab
so that was my attempt but yeah than
that guys any other fruits you want to
see me throwing beer message me down
below I'm not a big I normally don't do
that sort of thing but I'm always open
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