Eat My Ass Amber

I brewed 5 gallons of an American Style Amber. The main reason for 5 gallons instead of 10 is to use the Hopshot I won from Northern Brewer. Which is an alternative hop product for the bittering addition of hops. It smelled really potent and the taste test was insane!! Since I have 2 IPAs brewed, I went for a lighter more simple beer. This will let the hops come thru as well.

The brew day went really well, 5 gallons AG in 5 1/2 hours is pretty good to me! Here is the recipe, this may take a while to read, it's a massive recipe...

9 lbs 2-row
1 lbs Dingemans Caravienne

1 hopshot
1 oz of Argentina Cascade

2 packets US-05 dry yeast.

So I used my large mash tun as my HLT and I brought out the bucket lauter tun. I mashed in a 20 qt stock pot and transferred into the lauter tun.














The hops and the refractometer sneaking in the pic.














Transferring into the fermenter. I am using a little do-dad I forgot I had, it fans the wort out to aerate it. This also was the first time I got to use the brew hauler! It works fantastic too!














After some more aerating, right before pitching yeast.














The next morning I have active fermentation. I had a OG of 1.055 which was a great 80% efficiency, that makes me happy! Yay!

Side oddness, I don't know what the hell this is, but it may taste likes tapioca. This was taken from the boil after it was cooled. We shall see what happens here...