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Eternal Evidence #4 Recipe, Process, and Results

Here's the fourth iteration of my house pale ale, Eternal Evidence.

Intention
I drew inspiration from a podcast about modern West Coast IPA. Green Cheek and North Park discussed using all pilsner malt to allow hops to shine, so that's what went down. My water profile was also inspired by the ep.

Looking for a more local touch to my beer, I sourced Deer Creek Floor Germinated Colonial Pils malt, which is only a few hours from my apartment. Forest + Main sources their malt for many of their beers, so the quality must be there too, right? Plus, supporting a small craft maltster rather than a multinational conglomerate is much more appealing.

Cascade and Chinook do the heavy lifting on the hot side to capture some of that classic Sierra Nevada west coast character, and to encourage biotransformation of the 3MH compound. I tossed Strata in the mix in hopes of adding the strawberry-dank-peach thing that I tasted in an Equilibrium DIPA a while back.


Drinkability. Balance. Subtlety.

Recipe
Grain
10.5 lbs. Colonial Pils - Deer Creek

Water
4 gallons of Brita-filtered Buffalo water
4 gallons of Wegmans Spring water
8g Gypsum, 3g Calcium Chloride, 1g Sea Salt, 4mL Lactic Acid
141 ppm Calcium, 20 ppm sodium, 150 ppm sulfates, 82 ppm chlorides, 64 ppm bicarbonates

Hops
1 oz. Chinook (12.7% AA) @ 90 minutes
1mL Cascade HopShot (38.8% AA) @ 90 minutes
0.25 oz. Chinook @ 15 minutes
0.5 oz. Strata (14.2% AA) @ flameout
1 oz. Cascade @ 10 minutes into the hopstand
1 oz. Chinook @ 10 minutes into the hopstand
1 oz. Cascade Cryo @ hopback
1 oz. Chinook Cryo @ hopback
1 oz. Cascade Cryo @ start of fermentation
1g Aromazyme @ start of fermentation
2 oz. Strata @ dry hop for 1 day
2 oz. Cascade @ dry hop for 1 day
1 oz. Chinook Cryo @ dry hop for 1 day

Yeast
1 pkg US-05 American Ale, pitched at 68 and fermented at ambient temperature for two weeks

Mash
Mash pH of 5.4
134 degrees for 15 minutes, 152 degrees for 40 minutes, 158 to mash out
Lautered for 8 minutes, no sparge
1.040 OG

Results
1.000 FG
5.2% ABV
soft, pillowy carbonation
foam retention was excellent
super fruity on the nose, mango and grapefruit
bitterness is gentle, comes on at the front palate
lemon rind, mango, fresh cut grass, sticky-dank as the beer travels from front palate to back palate
dries up nicely without an extreme intensity, and comes on in conjunction with hop brightness

Bolstering the calcium chloride addition as well as the Strata charge are the only changes I intend on making to this beer. I learned a lot about my evaporation rates and water volumes during this brew, so my equipment should be dialed in in subsequent brews. Though I missed my intended OG, this surprisingly worked out due to the over attenuation (which I suspect was caused by the aromazyme.





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Location: 492 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222, USA

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