cuvee de banning
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011last weekend I finished up the last of my four “house” sours – cuvee de banning.
- after finishing my first “american-style” sour (cuvee de cabrillo), I decided to toss four “house” sours into my brewing pipeline, such that after a year’s time, a new year-aged sour would be available for bottling every three months. the pipeline is filled as follows:
- cuvee de cabrillo (dark strong sour) – January
- cuvee de blanc (dark “mild” sour) – April
- cuvee de vizcaino (golden strong sour) – July
- cuvee de banning (blonde sour) – October
- as noted above, banning is a sour blond ale inspired by various recipes for russian river’s temptation. the recipe is as follows (for 13 gals @ 80% efficiency):
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26.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) Bel (3.0 SRM) Grain 94.55 % 1.50 lb White Wheat Malt (2.4 SRM) Grain 5.45 % 3.00 oz Saaz [2.00 %] (60 min) Hops 7.6 IBU 0.50 oz Saaz [2.00 %] (30 min) Hops 1.0 IBU 0.50 oz Saaz [2.00 %] (5 min) Hops 0.3 IBU - I used some of my stash of aged hops from seven bridges for a sub-10 IBU count and pitched a starter made from a vial of white labs WLP655 and dregs from bottles of RR’s consecration, two brothers’ askew, and drie fonteinen oude geuze. after 4-5 days, the starter had developed a healthy pellicle and was smelling pretty funky when I pitched it at 72F.
- I also had MV over and whipped up a batch of belgian blonde for his upcoming wedding, and he took home a bag of spent grains to make some dog treats. congrats MV, and enjoy the brew!