Blue Giant

[Lesinge]

159th Brew. 29/06/18. Blue Giant. 4kg Maris Otter and 300g of Carapils. 20g of Southern Cross at boil, 10g Southern Cross and 10g Belma at 15, same again at 5 and 20g of Belma at the hopstand. I may have mixed this up so we either have 20g mixed at 15 or 20g of Belma and the mixed bag at hopstand but don’t know and shouldn’t make a major difference in regards to bitterness etc. Colour at pitch is very light and clear straw as expected with nothing bar MO and Carapils. OG is 1064 which would make it around 6% but I did stick a couple of litres of water in at the end so probably 5.7% or there abouts. Smell very malty as expected. Taste, quite intense, creamy, malty with a bitterness that comes straight through, goes down and then come across whole mouth but fades smoothly after that. A bitterness that doesn’t linger in intensiveness. Very strange.

 

[Lesinge]

BTW - the name Blue Giant comes from the stars that make up the Southern Cross!